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May 23, 2012 by pjorgensen

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(see also the Poetry section)

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Writers' Resources

Reading Group Resources

Sources for Buying Books and Book Supplies



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Own the Night: Teen Summer Reading Program

May 08, 2012 by Webmaster
Own the Night

All kinds of things are happening at the library this summer! Check out the special events we have planned, and our TeensRead Book Groups for Middle School Students and Friends!
Here's a list of the special events for teens we have planned this year!
Here's a printable list of events listed branch by branch.


Own the NightMonday, June 11, 2012
6:30-7:30 PM
Eiseley Branch Library
Dream Interpretation: "To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there's the rub." Hamlet III, i,65-68. Whether you dream of coming to school in your pajamas or wonder what the giant pink bunny in your dream meant, Sue Thornton, from Blue Heron Transitions through Hypnosis, will help us relate to, and interpret, what we dream.

Own the NightWednesday, June 13, 2012
2:00-3:00 PM
Eiseley Branch Library
Breakdancing @ Eiseley Branch Library: Toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes, if these terms mean nothing to you then you need to get to Eiseley to find out what's going on. Whether you call it b-boying or breakdancing, you should bust a move and come see the UNL Breakdancing Club. This program is open to all ages, but is intended for teens.

Own the NightThursday, June 14, 2012
2:30-4:00 PM
Bennett Martin Public Library
Monster 'Dos: Join us for some fun and scary hairdos created for you by the professionals at Lincoln's College of Hair Design, on the fourth floor of Bennett Martin Public Library.

Own the NightThursday, June 14, 2012
2:30-4:00 PM
Gere Branch Library
Zombie Felties: "Revolting yet compelling: You'll find that unknown forces induce you to craft every single one…" Teens – we're making crafts - from the book Zombie Felties:…How to Raise 16 Gruesome Felt Creatures from the Undead by Nicola Tedman & Sarah Skeate. "From the mildly sinister (Dead Ducky) to the downright horrifying (Zombie Bride), there's something here for every taste, however twisted."

The Music Man Jr.Friday, June 15, 2012
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Gere Branch Library
Sneak Peek Preview Performance from The Music Man Jr.: Performed by teens as part of the Lincoln Community Playhouse Summer Camp. Enjoy selections of the music from The Music Man Jr. with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Wilson. A Summer Reading Program and Teen Summer Reading event.

Own the NightTuesday, June 19, 2012
2:00-3:00 PM
Anderson Branch Library
Tie-Dye Pillow Cases: Plain pillow cases are so overrated. Start sleeping in style with your very own tie-dyed work of art. Supplies will be provided. Space is limited; please call 402-441-8540 to sign up.

Own the NightTuesday, June 19, 2012
2:00-3:30 PM
South Branch Library
Teen Game Day: Can you beat the computer? Come and experience the joy and fun of gaming with friends at South.

Own the NightWednesday, June 27, 2012
1:30-3:00 PM
Eiseley Branch Library
D.I.Y. Day: Feeling crafty? Do you like to repurpose things? Stop by the library where there will be a variety of items ranging from duct tape to bottle tops that we will be using to create memorable mementos. Materials will be provided but you are welcome to bring your own photos and found items to include in your project.

Guys & Dolls Jr.Friday, June 29, 2012
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Gere Branch Library
Sneak Peek Preview Performance from Guys and Dolls Jr.: Performed by teens as part of the Lincoln Community Playhouse Summer Camp. Enjoy selections of the music from Guys and Dolls Jr. by Abe Burrows & Jo Swerling, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. A Summer Reading Program and Teen Summer Reading event.

Own the NightWednesday, July 11, 2012
2:00-3:30 PM
Bennett Martin Public Library
CSI: Lincoln: Join us for a forensics presentation by Erin Sims, Lab Manager of the Forensic Unit for the Lincoln Police Department. Ms. Sims will describe how a complex homicide case was solved using evidence at the scene, as there were no eyewitnesses. (Due to the nature of the presentation, attendance is limited to ages 12 and over).

Own the NightWednesday, July 11, 2012
6:30-7:30 PM
Walt Branch Library
Dream Interpretation: "To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there's the rub." Hamlet III, i,65-68. Whether you dream of coming to school in your pajamas or wonder what the giant pink bunny in your dream meant, Sue Thornton, from Blue Heron Transitions through Hypnosis, will help us relate to, and interpret, what we dream.

Own the NightThursday, July 12, 2012
2:30-4:00 PM
Gere Branch Library
Stargazing – Constellations and Astrology: Stargazing Teens – do you know which constellations are visible in the summer night sky? How do those constellations relate to Zodiac signs? Come learn a little about Astrology and Astronomy at Gere – and you can spend the rest of your summer knowledgeably gazing up at the night sky!

Own the NightTuesday, July 17, 2012
6:30-7:30 PM
Walt Branch Library
Aussie Funk Jam Workshop: The folks from Didg Revolution have come all of the way from Florida to teach you how to play the didgeridoo in this funky, unique program, especially for teens!

Own the NightWednesday, July 18, 2012
2:00-3:00 PM
Anderson Branch Library
READ THIS BOOK! Love to read? Create an advertisement to promote your favorite book. Completed projects will be posted online or within the library.

Own the NightWednesday, July 18, 2012
6:30-7:30 PM
Eiseley Branch Library
Aussie Funk Jam Workshop: The folks from Didg Revolution have come all of the way from Florida to teach you how to play the didgeridoo in this funky, unique program, especially for teens!

Own the NightTuesday, July 24, 2012
2:00-3:00 PM
South Branch Library
Get Soaked @ the Library: Come and get soaked in the library parking lot. Bring your soakers and prepare to get wet.

Own the NightWednesday, July 25, 2012
1:00-2:30 PM
Walt Branch Library
All Twisted Up 2 & More! We're doing it again plus more! Join other teens at Walt Branch for another Twister Tournament. Last year's tournament was big, but we want this year's to be even bigger. Plus, we'll have video gaming on our big screen, cool retro board games and snacks. So, spend the hottest part of the day lounging in our air-conditioned game room with your friends.



TeensRead!
TeensRead Book GroupsBook Groups & More for Middle School Students and Friends

Eiseley Branch Library
1530 Superior St.
402-441-4250
June 4-July 9
Mondays 1:00-2:00 PM
Fantasy & Science Fiction Book Group
Whether you are a die-hard fantasy fan or more at home among distant planets with science fiction, this book group is for you. We will read, talk, eat and have fun on Monday afternoons. To sign up, stop in at Eiseley (1530 Superior St.) or call Eiseley's information desk (402-441-4250).
June 4 - Meet and Greet
June 11 - The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
June 18 – Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
June 25 – Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein
July 2 – The Roar by Emma Clayton
July 9 – Vote for next year's book

Gere Branch Library
2400 S. 56th St.
402-441-8560
June 12-July 17
Tuesdays 2:30-3:30 PM
A little dark reading...
Gere's TeensRead Book Club this summer will feature books about the night. Come and find out if our talks about these books will shed any light or just leave us in the dark. Sign up at Gere in person or by phone. Vote now for your favorite titles, and pick up the books in person at our first meeting.

Walt Branch Library
6701 S. 14th St.
402-441-4460
May 29-June 26
Tuesdays 6:30-7:30 PM
Over-Readers Anonymous: For Addicts of Young Adult Paranormal Romance
Fallen angels, immortals, dystopian societies, the underworld, and of course, vampires; we'll have them all this summer at Walt Branch Library's book gathering sessions for teen and adult fans of Young Adult Paranormal Romance.
 
Join other avid readers who share an interest in this ever-growing subgenre.  We will obsess over a new paranormal romance theme every week with the focus on one main book. Bring someone who shares your appreciation for mysterious, dark and brooding heroes. Both adults and teens are welcome! Attend any of the sessions or sign up for all five by stopping in at Walt Branch Library (6701 S. 14th Street) or calling Walt's information desk (402-441-4460). Pre-registration is encouraged, but not required.

May 29-Fallen Angels (Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick)
June 5-The Underworld (Abandon by Meg Cabot)
June 12-Immortals (Evermore by Alyson Noël)
June 19-Apocalyptic & Dystopian Societies (Enclave by Ann Aguirre)
June 26-Vampires (Hearts at Stake by Alyxandra Harvey)

Williams Branch Library
5000 Mike Scholl St.
402-441-8580
June 7-June 28
Thursdays 2:30-3:30 PM
Friends, Books and Fun
Face to face friends, fun with favorite books and food; join us Thursdays at 2:30 PM Sign up and check out the first book, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, at Williams Branch Library.

Summer Reading Program images are copyrighted. Contact the CSLP at 1(866) 657-8556 or info@cslpreads.org for more information.


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Hey, Read This!

May 01, 2012 by pjorgensen

Hey, Read This!

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Books listed are chosen to represent the wide world of literature. While there is something for everyone, not every title listed will be of interest to, or appropriate for, every reader. Check with your librarian for more suggestions.

Check out these new booklists - three of our new Books, Movies & More pages!

More Book Recommendations

NewA Little Dark Reading

Susan's Teen Read Week Book List 2011

Sarah's Teen Read Week List 2010

Susan's Teen Read Week Book List 2010

Susan's Summer Reading List, 2010

Sarah's TeensRead List, Summer 2010

YALSA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults: 2010 Finalists

Susan's Teen Read Week Book List 2009

Best Books for Young Adults From the American Library Association

The Hot List! Check the most popular items on the teen advance reservations list!

Susan's Picks, Winter 2008 Also available as a two-part audio podcast; the podcasts also include books for adults:

Podcast of this book talk  Part 1
Podcast of this book talk  Part 2 

 

Good Youth Books for Gifts, 2008 (This list includes books for younger readers)

Susan's Teen Read Week Book List 2008

Fanged Fiction

Sarah's Teen Book List, Spring 2008 An audio podcast based on this list is also available: podcast graphic

 

Susan's Picks, Spring 2008 Also available as an audio podcast: podcast graphic

Good Youth Books for Gifts, 2007 (This list includes books for younger readers)

Susan's Teen Read Week Book List 2007

Books for Young People: A Gere Branch Books Talk Presentation - Feb 5, 2007

Award Winning Books

Game On! Fiction for Gaming Fans

Susan's Teen Read Week Book List 2006

Susan's Teen Read Week Book List 2005

Susan's Picks - March 2005

Susan's Picks - 2004

Young Adult Booktalks, Spring 2004

Golden Sower Awards

Golden Sower Award Nominees From the Past

Teen Book Club Teen Book Club
The online Teen Book Club is one of eleven online book clubs available through Lincoln City Libraries. Sign up and you'll receive brief daily sections of the books in your specified categories via your e-mail account. Each day's entry will be approximately 5 minutes worth of reading material. Click the book cover image to get more information.



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New Books On Order

April 30, 2012 by Webmaster
and New Large Type Books On Order

The New Books On Order lists are PDF files, which require the free Adobe® Acrobat® Reader. Help for viewing these files is available on the City of Lincoln Web site.

You can also sign up to receive the monthly New Books on Order list by e-mail; here is the current list.

Additional materials on order for this month can also be viewed in our catalog.

New Large Type Books On Order

All Large Type books on order can be viewed in our catalog.

(This list may not be produced during some months.)



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A Little Dark Reading

April 13, 2012 by Webmaster

Brought to you by Sarah @ GERE Branch Library

Night RunnerNight Runner by Max Turner
Zack Thomson is a sane teenager living in a mental ward - and he's pretty much okay with that. After his parents died, he developed some very strong and weird allergies and the mental ward was a place that could handle his needs. His severe allergy to sunlight means he mostly only deals with the night staff, and Nurse Ophelia does the best job with his crazy food restrictions anyway. She makes a strawberry smoothie that soothes his raging hunger and doesn't make him feel sick. Things are running pretty smoothly until the night that the freaky guy on the motorcycle crashes through the wall into the lobby of the ward and tells him to run. Suddenly Zack has questions and lots of them!

Keeper of the Night Keeper of the Night by Kimberly Willis Holt
Isabel's mother died, and nobody is talking about it. Not her dad, who sleeps curled up on the floor next to the bed he used to share with mom, not her sister who has nightmares and wets the bed every night, and not her brother, who begins taking a knife to his room each night and carving his anger into the wall. Isabel is doing everything she knows how to do to keep the family afloat, but unless she gets some help, tragedy may strike again.


Night of the BatNight of the Bat by Paul Zindel
Jake is a spoiled 15-year-old, or at least that is everyone's opinion of him up until now. So when his dad's expedition to study bats in the Amazon is in trouble, Jake flies down, determined to prove that he can help. But the man-eating monster they find themselves up against is something out of a nightmare, and may be beyond anyone's ability to destroy - let alone a teenager on his own in the jungle.

Up All NightUp All Night by Abrahams, Bray, Levithan, McCormick, Weeks & Yang
Six short stories about thing that keep you up all night: Babysitting your little brother and his dying pet mouse; Going out of town to a concert with your stupid friends who drink too much and having to call your dad and his new sweetheart for a place to crash; Deciding that the party is lame and bailing out to find what you REALLY want to be doing; Learning to drive secretly at night and discovering power you never knew you had; And a graphic short about a monkey without a mother - all of which may very well keep YOU up and pondering all night long!

In the Forests of the NightIn the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Riska used to be a girl with a family, back in 1701. Now she's an old vampire, forced into this unlife against her will and at a very high cost, powerful, angry and alone. There are no sparkly love stories here, just tragedy, loss and power.

A Discovery of WitchesA Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Do you love the idea of a dusty British library reading room, a mysterious magical manuscript that disappears as soon as it's discovered, and a forbidden love story between a witch and a vampire? This book is gothic, dark, mysterious, romantic, peopled with witches, vampires, and daemons, rich with history - and best yet...great characters and really well written!! It'll leave you craving book #2...which is due out July 10th!!



The Night CircusThe Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Prepare to be up all night. The setting is a unique circus that travels secretly and only opens at midnight. The author will entrance and enchant you with the descriptions of this circus that are so amazingly delicious and addictive, they will haunt your imagination forever - and that's just the setting. The story itself, a complex, fascinating story of REAL magic, amoral competition, and accidental love will leave you breathless and cheering for the characters to beat all odds and win together.

NightjohnNightjohn by Gary Paulsen

A historical novel - not Paulsen's usual fare but he's produced a remarkable story here. Sarny is a slave girl in the 1850's. Nightjohn is also a slave - or is he? He can read, and he's teaching Sarny how too, despite the huge risk. When Sarny accidentally spills the secret the punishments are beyond harsh, and she's sure that life and death are more important than learning how to read - but Nightjohn has some amazing plans in store.


NightNight by Elie Wiesel
The most tragic and horrific story on this list, and it's not fiction. When Elie Wiesel's family was forcibly removed from their home and taken to a concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during WWII, Elie was 15 years old. He was a deeply religious boy, who lovingly studied his Jewish faith and dreamed of studying the even more mystical and complex cabbala. Enduring the horror of the Holocaust on the very front lines was a test not only of his will to survive, but his sanity, and his faith. He is rocked body and soul by this experience, and again by surviving it. Much later he found himself compelled to share it, and it is an important story of our history, one that has many difficult lessons to teach today's students. This book is not an easy read, but it is a critical one.

Night FiresNight Fires by George Edward Stanley
Set in Oklahoma in 1923, this is the story of a boy whose father was recently killed in a car accident. He and his mother move to Lawton, OK from Washington DC, where their loss and grief get entangled with the racial unrest happening in this small town. Woodrow just wants to fit in, and find some friends who might help him deal with his sadness. His mom is nearly too sad to get out of bed, so when his neighbor offers some fatherly support, Woodrow is drawn in. But there is a strong KKK presence in Lawton, something his own father would have been set against - and his new friends are up to their pointy white hats involved with the Klan. Woodrow has to make a stand, but how many horrible acts will he commit in the name of weakness and need before he finds his strength?

The ReplacementThe Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
Mackie doesn't remember the whole story - he was too little when it happened, but his sister does. She was four years old, awake in the night, and she watched while her little brother was stolen from his crib, and replaced with Mackie. And she loved him anyway. As did the rest of his family, even though they knew in their hearts he wasn't quite right. They buy all plastic silverware when they realize the iron in the metal hurts him. They protect him from harm when they discover the scent of blood makes him faint. They make up allergies to explain his pallor, and excuses to explain his absence from from church - even though his dad is the minister. But when another child is replaced, and the changeling dies, Mackie steps up. He's the only one who can go to the fae underworld to find out the truth, and the only one who can change it.

Wicked GirlsWicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill
Based on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, this novel takes us inside the circle of girls who cried "Witch". The core group of three, Ann, Mercy and Margaret, and four other girls who come and go from the group, as the power dynamic shifts...and shift it does. It's all about power. In this time and place, young women had little to none and this was an opportunity to seize some. The power impress, to have your parents listen to you and treat you with respect, to get back at people in the town who had harmed you or your friends, and power to control the group itself. Before long, the frenzy they've whipped up results in not just imprisonments for the accused, but some hangings, and the girls begin to fear that they're in way over their heads.


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