Teen Summer Reading Program

"Scare up a Good Book" at the Mahomet Public Library Teen Summer Reading Program (for teens entering grades 6-12)

July 25-Aug. 28, 2010

Read the library 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 for one of five $10 bookstore gift cards.

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! All entries must be turned in to the library by August 28.

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

New Teen Area!

Take a look at the new teen area! In addition to nice furnishings, there are many new fiction and nonfiction books to enjoy.



Plan to join us at the opening of the new library, tentatively set for Sunday, July 25, and check it out for yourself!

Opening date for new building

The tentative opening date for the new Mahomet Public Library building at 1702 E. Oak Street is Sunday, July 25.

The Main Street location is now closed, but will be open from 5:00-7:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, July 7
Monday, July 12
Wednesday, July 14
for patrons to pick up books that have arrived through interlibrary loan
(no other services will be available).

Interlibrary loan pickup will resume at the new location the week of July 25.

You may return books to the outdoor book drops at the new location beginning July 15. The book return drop box at the Main Street location will be closed as of July 14.

Library Closing Dates for Move

The Mahomet Public Library will be closed beginning July 4
as we move to our new location at 1702 E. Oak St.!

The Main St. location will be open from 5:00-7:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, July 7
Monday, July 12
Wednesday, July 14
for patrons to pick up books that have arrived through interlibrary loan
(no other services will be available).

Interlibrary loan pickup will resume at the new location the week of July 18.

You may return books to the outdoor book drops at the new location beginning July 15. The book return drop box at the Main Street location will be closed as of July 14.

New in the YA Department

Fiction:
• The Clearing by Heather Davis
• Mercury by Hope Larson
• The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye by Bonnie Shimko
• Fang: a Maximum Ride novel by James Patterson
• Witch and Wizard by James Patterson
• Burned: A House of Night novel by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
• As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins
• Three Rivers Rising: a Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards


Books on CD:
• The Killer’s Cousin by Nancy Werlin
• Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford
• The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade
• Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr
• The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

Sneak Peek Book Event

Friday, June 18, 5-7 p.m.
Saturday, June 19, 1-5 p.m.

Get a “Sneak Peek” inside the new Mahomet Public Library Building, 1702 E. Oak St., and help us fill the new shelves at our “Buy it and Leave it” event on Friday, June 18 from 5-7 p.m., and Saturday, June 19 from 1-5 p.m. Browse a selection of new books and audiovisual materials that are ready to be added to the shelves priced from $5-$25. For example, you can donate a paperback for $5, or a new hardcover fiction or nonfiction book for $20. When you find an item you’d like to purchase as a donation to the library, we’ll add a bookplate with your name or the name of someone you’d like to honor, and the book will be added to the library’s shelves.

You don’t have to purchase an item to get a “Sneak Peek” of the new building-be one of the first to see inside before opening day! For more information, visit the website at www.mahometpubliclibrary.org.

2010 Teen's Top 10 Nominations

Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on Support Teen Literature Day during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Readers ages twelve to eighteen will vote online between Aug. 23 and Sept. 17 at the Teen's Top 10 Website: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten.cfm; the winners will be announced in a webcast featuring WWE Superstars and Divas during Teen Read Week. The nominees for this year are:

Watersmeet by Ellen Jensen Abbott
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Heist Society by Ally Carter
Fire by Kristin Cashore
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
The Roar by Emma Clayton
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
hush, hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd Ed. by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci
Dragonfly by Julia Golding
The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
Witch and Wizard by James Patterson
By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Taniagawa
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
City of Fire by Laurence Yep