Posts tagged as reading

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.

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More Book Recommendations

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:

  Part 1
  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: 

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

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 Award Nominees From the Past

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.

Lincoln City Libraries is again providing an opportunity for children to "Read to a Dog @ the Library." Local therapy dog organization, Healing Heart Therapy Dogs, provides this wonderful opportunity for children ages 6 to 12 who have experienced reading difficulties or who just need to practice their reading. Therapy teams are partnered with children who polish their skills by reading aloud to a dog. Children read to dogs in 20-minute shifts, once a week for six weeks. Registration is required.

Beginning the week of January 23, children may read to a dog at these locations and times:

Walt Branch Library
6701 S. 14th Street
Sundays, 6-8:00 p.m.
(These sessions are now full.)

Gere Branch Library
2400 S. 56th Street
Saturdays, 1-3:00 p.m.
(These sessions are now full.)

Eiseley Branch Library
1530 Superior Street
Sundays, 6-8:00 p.m.

Please call Marla at 402-450-1081 to register. Call Youth Services at (402)441-8566 for additional information.

NoveList provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles.

Click the button below to access NoveList. When prompted, enter all 14 digits of your library card number; do not enter any spaces.

A collection of tip sheets is also available.

If you have difficulty using this resource, please contact the Reference Department at 441-8530 for assistance.

 

Lincoln City Libraries is offering two parent-child book groups for children and their adult reading partners starting this fall. These groups will meet once a month and will be led by a trained facilitator. Register by calling the library where you would like to participate.

For first through third graders and their reading partners we offer:

• A group at Gere Branch, 2400 S. 56th Street, on the second Monday of every month starting on January 11th, from 6:30 - 7:15. To sign up, please call Gere Branch, 441-8560.

For second and third graders and their reading partners we offer:

• Reading Partners at the South Branch, 2675 South Street, meets on the first Monday of the month, starting September 14, at 6:30. Please call South Branch at 441-8570 if you are interested.

For third through fifth graders and their reading partners we offer:

• A group at the Anderson Branch, 3635 Touzalin Avenue, on the second Tuesday of every month, starting October 13, from 6:45 - 7:45 p.m. To sign up, please call Anderson Branch, 441-8540.

     Okay, everyone knows that I love to read, but I have a confession to make. Sometimes I start a book and I don't finish - now mind you this happens rarely but it does happen. I am here to tell you now, that it is okay. It is okay to take a book home, start it and then realize that you don't like it.

     For example, I took Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink home last week; I read 107 pages and realized I was not lovin' the book but I also realized that people who liked the Gemma Doyle series by Libba Bray or The Fetch by Laura Whitcomb would love the book - so mission accomplished. Another example would be this weekend, I had been anxiously awaiting Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry because I loved The Time Traveler's Wife enough to read it twice (and I typically don't reread books but my book group chose it,) but after reading 5 pages I realized this was not going to be the book for me. Now this does not mean I might not go back and try it again later but for now, I have let it go.
 
   So the whole point of this post is to encourage you to take a chance. Not every book is going to be your favorite and sometimes you might not even make it to the end but I promise you that if you give a book, a chance, it might surprise you in the end.