Make Mix Create

GCPL's TechStudio is a space to create, collaborate, and share digital content.  Located in the Five Forks Branch, the TechStudio has two iMacs, along with recording equipment, scanners, cameras, a green screen, an electronic piano keyboard, a digital drawing tablet, and more!  It's a great space to work on school projects or to edit your own personal creations. The TechStudio is open to teens, too!  You must be 13 years of age or older and a library card holder in good standing (no outstanding fines or fees).  Reservations are preferred but walk-in access may be permitted if the space is free.

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Divergent and Allegiant

Check out the poster for the new movie.  Look for it in theaters March 20, 2014

it's here!  Put your copy on reserve now!

 

 

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2013 Teen's Top Ten Titles announced!

The Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, with teens nominating and choosing their favorite books of the previous year. Nominators are members of teen book groups in sixteen school and public libraries around the country.  Here's what they chose for 2013.  How many have you read?   The links below refer to the print versions but many of these titles are also available as audio books or downloadable ebooks.  Search the catalog by title to see all versions. 

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Teen Read Week

Celebrate Teen Read Week @ Your Library

Teen Read Week is all about reading for the fun of it.  Seek the unknown @ your library by checking out new authors, titles, genres and formats.  Why not try a mystery on audiobook or a digital download of the newest Sci Fi hit?

Take a study break at one of our Teen Read Week events  Teen Event Calender

 

Coming soon to a theatre near you!

The Book Thief

Divergent - teaser

Other movie news:

The following books are in production to become movies soon. Check out a copy today!

The Fault in Our Stars

Fallen

Why We Broke Up

The Graveyard Book

If I Stay

 

What's your choice?

Click here to see a list of the 2013-2014 nominees

Click here to vote for YOUR favorite!

Cool Crafts

Check out the awesome mini terrarium teens made at the 

Lawrenceville Branch this summer!

keep your eye on the Teen Event Calendar for more cool events

Teen Summer Reading Program

Prizes

Stop by any branch library to collect your Teen Summer Reading Program prizes. Everyone gets sponsor coupons, and 15 lucky teens will win a  Kindle Fire!  

 

Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer

When sixteen-year-old Brooklyn native Cherokee Salamanca swaps lives with British teenager Sophie Pitt-Turnbull for the summer, she gets more than she bargains for as she tries to take London by storm.  Request title here

Sixteen-year-old Anna falls for Will, a New Yorker visiting her resort island for the summer, but she isn't sure if one summer of love will be worth her heart breaking when he leaves at the end of August. Request title here

School may be out for summer, but top-secret training continues for aspiring spy Ben Ripley--and so does the danger. Request title here

Go Beneath the Surface this summer

In 1899 on an island off the coast of Maine, fifteen-year-old May learns why she has always felt different from the other girls in her small town, but must keep hidden that she is a mermaid or risk attracting the attention of a dangerous hunter, and losing a boy for whom she cares  Request title here

This is the story of how a boy, a dog, a scientist, and Google Earth found a nearly two-million-year-old fossil from a skeleton that just may rewrite the story of human evolution. Chronicles the story behind one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of all time, explaining its significance for understanding human evolution and how it is shaping the thinking of the scientific community.  Request title here

In 1899 on an island off the coast of Maine, fifteen-year-old May learns why she has always felt different from the other girls in her small town, but must keep hidden that she is a mermaid or risk attracting the attention of a dangerous hunter, and losing a boy for whom she cares  Request title here

 

 

 

Raised underground by a robot, twelve-year-old Eva Nine finally finds all she ever wanted in the human colony of New Attica, but something very bad is going on there and unless Eva and her friends stop it, it could mean the end of life on Orbona.  Request title here

 

Go Beneath the Surface this summer!

Go Beneath the Surface this summer with  

Teen Summer Reading Program!  

 Here are just a few of the fun events planned just for TEENS 

(rising grade 6 and up).

Decorate a tshirt (bring a shirt and we supply the rest)

Learn to make your own paracord bracelet

Learn to Draw Comics with the creator of Galaxy Man!!

 When?  Where?  Check the event calendar

Award Winners

 2013 Edgar Award - given by the Mystery Writers of America

Best Young Adult Novel

Oct. 11th, 1943--A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage and failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?  Request Title Here


 2013 Morris Award Winner - honors a debut book published by a first time author writing for teens or young adults

When the death of a royal prince threatens the fragile peace between humans and dragons in Goredd, court musician Seraphina is drawn into the murder investigation. But even as she aids Prince Lucian in his mission to uncover the murderer, Seraphina conceals a dangerous secret of her own. Request Title Here

2013 Margaret A. Edwards Award - honors an author, as well as a body of work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.

Tamora Pierce for Song of the Lioness series and The Protector of the Small quartet See some titles here

 

Book Spine Poetry

Can you create an original poem using the titles of books?  Take a look at these cool examples.

from the Charleston County Public Library

from the Green Valley Library

our own Dacula Branch

Teen Tech Week

 

Check in at your library and check out some awesome books that feature technology.

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Valentine's Day

"There are people in this world who are Nobody. No one sees them. No one notices them. They live their lives under the radar, forgotten as soon as you turn away. That's why they make the perfect assassins. The Institute finds these people when they're young and takes them away for training. But an untrained Nobody is a threat to their organization. And threats must be eliminated. Sixteen-year-old Claire has been invisible her whole life, missed by the Institute's monitoring. But now they've ID'ed her and sent seventeen-year-old Nix to remove her. Yet the moment he lays eyes on her, he can't make the hit. It's as if Claire and Nix are the only people in the world for each other. And they are--because no one else can really see them."   Request this title

"There are people in this world who are Nobody. No one sees them. No one notices them. They live their lives under the radar, forgotten as soon as you turn away. That's why they make the perfect assassins. The Institute finds these people when they're young and takes them away for training. But an untrained Nobody is a threat to their organization. And threats must be eliminated. Sixteen-year-old Claire has been invisible her whole life, missed by the Institute's monitoring. But now they've ID'ed her and sent seventeen-year-old Nix to remove her. Yet the moment he lays eyes on her, he can't make the hit. It's as if Claire and Nix are the only people in the world for each other. And they are--because no one else can really see them."   Request this title

Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together on a very momentous day.
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This droll tale set in 19th-century England will earn smiles of recognition from those familiar with Pride and Prejudice. Althea Crawley's only hope of saving her family and their castlelike home from their state of genteel poverty is to ensnare a wealthy husband using the two sole tools at her disposal: her youth and her beauty. The 17-year-old soon sets her sights on dashing Lord Boring, but obstacles arise, including her scheming stepsisters and Boring's seemingly boorish cousin, Mr. Fredericks. Request this title

Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?

Get your game on with football-themed books for February

Fledgling fourteen-year-old sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie Thomas investigate suspicious activities at the Super Bowl after Stevie gets fired from his co-anchor job on a ground-breaking teen sports show.  Request it here:

 From in-helmet headsets to HD jumbotrons, technology has become an integral part of the game.  Read about all the cool high tech gadgets. Request it here

Written by former Atlanta Falcon Tim Green.  Request it here

A look at the origins, leaders, growth, and management of the NFL, the professional football league that was formed in 1920 and today governs 32 teams throughout the United States.  Request it here

Books to Movies - 2013

All of these books are being adapted into movies that are releasing this year.  Make sure you've read the book first!

 

pssst:  don't forget, the book is almost always BETTER : )

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