TAG president Hoang and Vice President Suzanna had the opportunity of a lifetime in meeting young adult author Chris Crutcher. Both Suzanna and Hoang had dinner at Maggiano's with Chris and several teens from the Aurora area and Arapahoe High School. In addition to meeting Chris, Hoang has finished reading all of the books Bemis has in its collection written by Chris Crutcher! Chris is shown here speaking at Arapahoe High School.

Teens,

YALSA has announced the winners of the 2007 Top Ten Teen Books and here they are:

1. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006).
2. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (Viking Children’s Books, 2006)
3. How to Ruin a Summer Vacation by Simone Elkeles (Flux, 2006).
4. Maximum Ride: School’s Out – Forever by James Patterson (Hachette Book Group USA/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006).
5. Firegirl by Tony Abbott (Hachette Book Group USA/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006).
6. All Hallows Eve (13 Stories) by Vivian Vande Velde (Harcourt, 2006).
7. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Harcourt, 2006).
8. River Secrets by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury, 2006).
9. Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe (HarperCollins, 2006).
10. Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks (Chicken House, 2006).

Bemis has them all except Number 3, but you are welcome to check out the rest!

Teen Read Week is almost upon us! Here is a list of the activities that Bemis Public Library will be having for Teens. Please ask about a Teen Reading Passport and we hope to see you at one or all of the events!

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  Monday, October 15 Come to the library between 3 and 5 and get a free comic, magazine, or book of your choice.
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  Tuesday, October 16 Watch the exciting movie called "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" at 3:30 (light refreshments will be served.
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  Wednesday, October 17 Open Mike! Take the opportunity to show off your acting, reading, reciting a poem, talents to a group of teens. All acts must be pre-approved by Suzie or Anthony. Please call (303) 795-3961 for information.
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  Thursday, October 18 Time for some dancing! Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) at 3:30. (light refreshments will be served)
  
  We hope to see you!

Here is an excerpt from an up and coming young author, Suzanna Lynn:

Chapter One

I walked towards the high school focusing intently on the ground in front of me. The weak autumn sun shone down on me bringing out the red in my light brown hair and making my skin look almost transparent. I played with the strap to of my messenger bag that hung across my chest. Whenever I did this my hand always found my mother’s wedding ring that I kept on a thin chain that came to my breast. I clasped the ring in my hand, closing my eyes and taking a deep breath. I had been going to the same school for over three years yet every time I went in the school I felt like a new kid on her first day.

“Adrienne.”

The sound of my name being called from behind me pulled me out of the uneasy, trance-like walk to the doors. I looked up and turned around to see my best friend, Derek making his way through the crowd of students with a warm smile on his face.

Teen events during the month of August:

Friday the 10th, Teen Advisory Group (TAG) 3:30
Monday the 13th, Red Cross Babysitting Class 9am to 4pm
Monday the 13th, Teen Book Club 10:00 am
Tuesday the 14th, Bemis Anime Team 3:30
Thursday the 16th, Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) 3:30
Wednesday the 22nd, Drop-In Program, Sumo Wrestling 3:00 to 5:00
Friday the 24th, TAG 3:30

Are you ready to Sumo? Bemis will be hosting a fun program in which you will be able to put on a canvas sumo suit, it is blown up with air, and you will wrestle against another teen! It will happen on Wednesday, August 22, from 3 to 5. Hope to see you there!

Bring a friend!

Well, the Summer Reading Program has come to an end. I would personally like to thank you all for participating, and all of you are winners since you read which is the biggest reward.



The winner of the iPod was number 255



All of you that completed the program will be receiving a packet of information shortly, I wish you well in school this next year!



Anthony

The winners for the drawing of the 8th and final week are numbers:

13, 69, 92, 95, 210, 250, 257, 272, 316, and 329

The winners will have a choice between 9 Egyptian chocolates that are 1/6 of a pound each or a tube of Egyptian figurines.

Congratulations to the winners! Make sure all your tickets are turned in for the iPod drawing which will be on August 1, 2007.

The winners of the drawing for the seventh week are numbers:

71, 87, 247, 250, 272, and 316

The winners this week will get to pick between a stuffed toy of Sobek (above), two Egyptian pens, and three gift certificates to Sophie's Place. With only one week, left you all are encouraged to turn in your tickets for the final drawing which will be held on August 1 (yes, for the iPod!)

The next Teen Book Club meeting will be August 13, at 10:00 am. We will be disussing the book Undine by Penni Russon. (Sixteen-year-old Undine, hearing her presumably deceased father calling to her and feeling a strange force growing inside her, travels to the sea to discover the depths of her magical powers.)

The Teen Book Club book for Saturday, September 1 at 2:00 pm will be Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins. (When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.) We will hold this meeting and determine if interest to continue the club into the fall.

The sixth week of the summer reading program is done! Wow, already! The winners for this week's drawing are:

7, 75, 87, 99, 175, and 248.

The winners get to pick from 3 really cool Egyptian figurines or 3 gift certificates to Sophie's Place. Don't forget this is Harry Potter Week, come and beat the heat at Bemis!

Winners for the fifth week of the Summer Reading Program are numbers:

7, 81, 115, 286, 330, and 356.

They will have a choice between 4 cool books about Egypt or 2 Sophie's Place gift certificates.

Congratulation winners, and have a great Fourth of July!

The winners for the fourth week of the Summer Reading Program are:

1, 99, 113, 176, 209, and 306

They will have a choice between 2 papyrus bookmarks, a papyrus wall hanging (both are from Egypt), or 3 gift certificates to Sophie's Place cafe.

Congratulations to the winners!

Visit Hogsmeade Village! On Friday, July 13, we will be having a great, fun, fabulous, fantastic, well, enough adjectives, event here at Bemis to celebrate the release of the newest Harry Potter movie and book. You will have the opportunity to do a varied amount of activities related to Harry Potter and have the chance to win several prizes. Please come into the library asap to pick up your limited ticket which will allow you to enter Hogsmeade Village.

The first day of the Tissue Mummy Wrapping competition has passed. Teams had to use strategy, speed and a good wrapping technique to make a fast time. Here are some pictures from the competition, and you will have a second chance to compete on Wednesday, June 20 at 1:00. The fastest time was 1 minute and 18 seconds!

The winners for the third week (4 etched mirrors or 3 Sophie's Place gift certificates) of the Wrapped Up in Reading program are:

35, 38, 71, 77, 82, 115, and 282.

Congratulations to the winners, and keep the tickets coming!

We had our first meeting of the Teen Book Club, and you are invited to participate in the second meeting. We will discuss the book, "Wee Free Men" by Terry Pratchett (A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland). We will meet on Monday, July 9, at 10:00am.

Here are the winners for the 5 (five) jewelry items and 3 gift certificates to Sophies Cafe, yes, there were 8 winners this week!

The Winners are: 6,73, 87, 99, 108, 154, 176, and 261.

Congratulations winners!

Thirteen teens helped to make the Horus Mural during the first week of the Summer Reading Program. Here is a picture for those of you that did not have a chance to see it (it will be in the Teen Central section of the library for the remainder of the summer), or work on it. Special thanks to Amanda, Miranda, and Cheyenne for helping put the mural in place.

Are you into anime? Well then come and join the Bemis Anime Team while we watch an episode of the movie "Black Cat". Light refreshments will be served and we will have some giveaways. The presentation of "Black Cat" will be held on June 12 at 3:30.

Alright! The Week one drawing has been held and the winners had a choice between 3 stone (onyx) pyramids or three gift certificates to Sophie's Place (the cafe here at Bemis).

The winners are: 35, 36, 42, 81, 131, and 173.

Congratulations and keep on reading. We have the Horus Mural program on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 1:00 this week- come and enjoy!

The first drawing slips for the SRP are due June 4, 2007 by 9:00 am.

Summer Reading Program (SRP) has started! Hopefully you have gotten signed up for the SRP and are all ready to enjoy your summer. If you signed up you should have gotten a free book, if you are one of the lucky persons that got a book with a large format money bill you can win a prize. Please bring that bill to the library on Saturday, June 2 between 9 am and 5 pm and you will get a prize for presenting the bill.

The final Bemis Anime Team for the this spring will be held on May 8, 2007. We will watch an episode of Trinity Blood and other anime features. Light refreshments will be served.

Teens, be ready for the summer! Coming up is the famous, fabulous, fun Summer Film School. Registration for Film School which is co-sponsored by The Binning Family Foundation and Bemis Public Library will begin on May 29, 2007. That is a little more than a month away! Be ready to be creative. Registration will be held at Bemis Public Library.

More information to follow.

Teens, come into Bemis to celebrate National Library Week. All teens (5th grade up to nineteen year olds) will been given a free book during Teen Literature Day which is Thursday, April 19th. By reading this post you will have knowledge that might make you a lucky winner of a Sophie's Place (Bemis' Cafe) Gift certificate of 10 dollars. Several books will have large format fake bills hidden in them, if you are the first person to show one large bill to Anthony, you will win the gift certificate. If you don't win, you can still join us for DDR at 3:30!

Bemis Teen Librarian Anthony LaCombe would like to learn your opinions about the Teen/YA collection and Teen programs. Please take the following survey to let your opinions be known.

Click here to take survey

Are you an exceptional computer artist and would like to have a place to show off your work? Bemis is having a Teen Tech Week art contest and you are invited to enter your work by March 9, 2007 at 3:00 pm. Here are the art contest rules;

1. There are no size restrictions
2. Enter as many times as you would like
3. Please write your name and phone number on the back of the work
4. Entries will be judged by the Bemis’ TAG
5. Entries should be submitted by March 9, 2007 at 3:00pm
6. All entries should be computer generated
7. Three entries will be awarded a prize and all entries will be displayed in Teen Central
8. Submit work to any Adult Reference Librarian or Anthony

If you have any questions please call the library at (303)795-3961

Please join Bemis Anime Team (BAT) for several anime episodes. The feature for the month of March is Basilisk: Scroll of Blood. We will meet to view this and other anime episodes on Tuesday, March 13 at 3:30. Light refreshments will be served.

Teen Advisory Group (TAG) is looking for new members. We have a desire to grow and bring ideas to Bemis Public Library. The next TAG meeting is February 23, from 3:30 to 4:00. Only 1/2 hour long! Please join us. Light refreshments will be provided.

Please join Bemis Anime Team (BAT) for the showing of Yu Yu Hakusho this next Tuesday, February 13 at 3:30. We will watch at least one episode of this and other dvds. Light refreshments will be served.

Do you like WWF wrestling? Do you want a DVD of wrestling action? If you happen to see this post and come to the library between the 12th through the 15th of February and can tell me the name of a teen or YA book you have checked out at Bemis and read, you will receive one of two DVDs or one of three t-shirts. In other words, 5 prizes will be given to anyone that has read a teen or YA Bemis Book! When you come please ask for Anthony.

Due to the tremendous snowfall we just got, some Bemis teens got their creative energy going to create this evil looking snowperson named Peter. Isn't Colorado in the winter simply great?

The Red Cross Babysitting class was great! There were 13 participants, and they learned a variety of skills necessary in taking care of children. Here are pictures of the participants in various exercises they did during the day.