Weekly Trivia topics

If you read this blog, you have insider information as to the topics of our teen summer reading program weekly trivia questions! And they are:
June 1-7: Name the Author - Caudill nominees
June 8-14: Twilight Trivia
June 15-21: Percy Jackson Trivia
June 22-28: Name the Author - Abraham Lincoln HS Award nominees
June 29-July 5: Fourth of July Trivia
July 6-12: Define It!
July 13-17: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trivia

Stop in each week to answer our trivia questions. If you get all the answers correct, we'll add your entry to our grand prize drawing. And while you're in, check out a book, pick up a reading program entry log, and earn more chances to win the grand prize!

Read on the Wild Side!

If you're entering 6th through 12th grade next fall, have you picked up your reading log for the teen summer reading program??? You should! They're now available in the library, and will soon be available online at the library web site. For every three hours you read, you can enter our grand prize drawing! What can you win? Five people will win either a $10 gift card to the location of their choice, or a 4 GB flash drive...you choose!

You can also enter our weekly trivia contest for a chance to have another entry in the grand prize drawing. Check back soon for a sneak peek at what each week's trivia questions will focus on. This information will only be posted on the Mahomet Public Library teen blog!

Read on the Wild Side!

Mahomet Public Library will host a teen summer reading program (for teens entering grades 6-12) from June 1-July 17, 2009. Read the books, magazines, and newspapers you enjoy (or listen to a book on CD/cassette), and for every 3 hours of reading, enter a grand prize drawing. Entry forms can be picked up at the Mahomet Public Library, or printed from the Mahomet Public Library web site starting May 26, 2009.

Every time you read 15 minutes, mark a box off on your entry form. When you’ve read 3 hours, bring your entry form with your name and phone number to the Mahomet Public Library to be entered into our grand prize drawing. Then pick up another form, and read your way towards another entry!

We will also have weekly trivia contests so you can earn more entries into the grand prize drawing!

Participation prizes will be awarded to all participants who read at least 3 hours! Additionally, if your entry is one of 5 drawn on July 17, you can choose a $10 gift card from the location of your choice in Mahomet or Champaign/Urbana (for example, Borders or Barnes and Noble Bookstores, Subway, Dairy Queen, Monical’s Pizza, McDonald’s, Play it Again Video, or another location of your choice), or a 4 GB flash drive – You choose!

Entry forms available in the library starting May 26, or print one from the library web page (www.mahometpubliclibrary.org). For more information, contact the Mahomet Public Library at 586-2611.

2010 Abraham Lincoln H.S. Book Award

Take a look at the 2010 nominees for the Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award. The Abraham Lincoln Award is awarded annually to the author of the book voted as most outstanding by participating students in grades nine through twelve in Illinois. The award is named for Abraham Lincoln, one of Illinois' most famous residents and himself an avid reader and noted author. The nominees for 2010 are:

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Aftershock by Kelly Easton
Avalon High by Meg Cabot
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery by Alane Ferguson
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
Inexcusable by Chris Lynch
Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Look Me in the Eye: My Life With Asperger’s by John Elder Robison
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Pride of Baghdad by Brian Vaughan
Rooftop by Paul Volponi
Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

New YA Books at the MPL

Here is a list of new YA books at the Mahomet Public Library, as of the end of April:
• Chasing Boys by Karen Tayleur
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Girls against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How We Can Change by Bonnie Burton
• Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
• Maximum Ride 1 by James Patterson
• 3 Willows: the Sisterhood Grows by Ann Brashares
• Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
• If I Stay by Gayle Forman
• Wolverine: Prodigal Son story by Anthony Johnston
• Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry
• Dragon Ball, Vol. 3 story and art by Akira Toriyama
• Dragon Ball, Vol. 4 story and art by Akira Toriyama
• Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 1 story and art by Akira Toriyama
• Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 3 story and art by Akira Toriyama