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Welcome to the
Teen Summer Reading Program
@ the Watsonville Public Library!

The Summer Reading Program runs from June 8th - July 17th.
The last day to turn in book reviews for raffle tickets is July 17th, 2009.
The final raffle will be held on Friday, July 17th at 5:00pm.

The Teen Summer Reading Desk is located at the reference desk at the Freedom Branch, and on the 2nd floor of the Main Library at the information desk right outside of the teen room.
The Teen Summer Reading Desk is open the same hours that each library is open.

This is how the program works:

There is no reading log.
Instead, you earn tickets (for the raffle) by doing different things.

You can earn tickets by:

Once you have finished an activity sheet, or have written a book review that you would like to turn in for a ticket, take it to the appropriate desk at whichever library you choose to go to.

The person there will exchange your review or activity sheet for 1 raffle ticket.

Write your full name (first and last) and your phone number on the back of the raffle ticket. The librarian will then add the ticket to the raffle ticket container to be saved until July 17th.

The grand prizes for the raffle are Ipod Shuffles!

The end of summer raffle will be held on Friday, July 17th at 5:00p at the Main Library Meeting Room. The raffle will be held at the end of our Murder Mystery Party.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Eva Nottage (enottage @ ci.watsonville.ca.us) at 768-3400.

Plan of Events:

Week 1: Eye Candy
Event of the Week: Anime Club (MAD) Meeting!
(Friday, June 12th at 3:30pm in the Main Library Meeting Room)
Activity Sheet: Creativity Through the Decades
Week 2: Digital Art & Creativity
Event of the Week: Wii Wednesday Gaming Afternoon
(Wednesday, June 17th at 3:00pm in the Main Library Meeting Room)
Activity Sheet: Get Creative!
Week 3: Culinary Creations
Event of the Week: Bento Box Cooking Class!
(Friday, June 26th at 2:00pm in the Main Library Meeting Room)
Activity Sheet: Mab Lib: The Masterpiece
Week 4: Music To Our Ears
Event of the Week: Wii Wednesday Gaming Afternoon
(Wednesday, July 1st at 3:00pm in the Main Library Meeting Room)
Activity Sheet: Dance Styles Word Search
Week 5: A Sense of Style: Fashion
Event of the Week: Tie-Dye Creations
(Thursday, July 9th at 1:00pm at the Freedom Branch Library)
Activity Sheet: Expressive Art: Social and Political Music
Week 6: Theater Arts
Event of the Week: Murder Mystery Party & RAFFLE!
(Friday, July 17th at 3:00pm & 5:00pm in the Main Library Meeting Room)

Explore these fun links with all kinds of ideas for creativity and expression!

Culinary Creations (Cooking, Recipes & Edible Fun)

Non-Fiction
Teens Cook  YN 641.5 Carle
Teens Cook Dessert  YN 641.86 Carle
Cooking Up a Storm  YN 641.5 Stern
Real Food, Real Fast  YN 641.5 Stern
Clueless in the Kitchen  YN 641.5123 Raab
Big Snacks, Little Meals  YN 641.53 Dunnington
Munchie Madness: Vegetarian Meals  YN 641. 5636 Bates
The Manga Cookbook  YN 641.5952 Manga
Sushi For Dummies   YN 641.692 Strada
Aprenda a hacer sushi  SP YN 641.5952 Yamasaki
Asiática  SP 641.595 Kingsley
College Cooking  YN 641.5 Carle
How to Boil Water  641.5 How
Two Dudes, One Pan  641.82 Shook
Repostería esencial: todo lo que necesitas para hacer pastels en poco tiempo  SP 641.815 Schinhar

Fiction
Tantalize  Y Smith
Flavor of the Week  Y Shaw
The Gourmet Zombie  Y Pbk Zindel
Kitchen Princess  Y GN Kitchen
Antique Bakery  Y GN Antique

Digital Art & Creativity (Creativity using Technology)

Own Your Space: Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online  YN 005.8 McCarthy
Hacking MySpace: Customizations and Mods to Make MySpace Your Space  YN 006.7 Pospisil
MySpace Visual Quick Tips  006.7 McFedrie

Digital Photography Essentials  771 Sadun
Digital Memories: Scrapbooking With Your Computer  745.593 Rose
Advanced Digital Photography  778 Ang
Teach Yourself Visually: Digital Photography  778.3 Marmel
Digital Photography: Special Effects  YN 006.686 Freeman
La cámara digital: cómo hacer buenas fotos  SP 775 Luengo
How To Do Just About Anything With Your Digital Photos  775 Davis
Get Creative! The Digital Photo Idea Book  760. 0285 Binder
Cómo editar fotos digitales  SP 775 Hasse

Digital Music Making For Teens  YN 781.344 Hagerman

Screenwriting For Teens  YN 808.23 Hamlett
Digital Video For Dummies  778.5 Underdah
Easy Digital Home Movies  778.59 Ludingto

Ipod: The Missing Manual  006.5 Biersdor
The Ipod Book 006.4 Kelby

Create Your Own Photo Blog  006.7 Jamieson
Secrets of VideoBlogging  006.7 Verdi

Organize Your Digital Life  646.7002 Baldridg
IBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind  612.8202 Small

Eye Candy (Drawing, Painting & Photography)

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity  153.35 Cameron

Ese increíble arte  SP YN 709 Cox
---Isms: Understanding Art  YN 709 Little
Arte comentado  SP 750 Cumming
History of Art For Young People  YN 709 Janson
The Story of Painting  YN 759 Beckett
Color en México  SP 701.85 Poniatow
Aprendiendo a mirar un cuadro  SP 750 Richards
Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts  YN 701.1 Taylor
Art nouveau  SP 709.0349 Lahor
Museo del Prado: los grandes maestros  SP 759.94 Museo
Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde  YN 700.411 Aronson

Curso completo de pintura  SP 751.4 Simpson
Acrylic Workbook: A Complete Course in Ten Lessons  751.426 Rodwell
The Painter's Craft: An Introduction to Artists' Methods and Materials  751.2 Mayer
Understanding Color: Creative Techniques in Watercolor  751.422 Moses
The Complete Guide to Watercolor  751.422 Smith
Pintar con acuarela  SP 751.422 Oliver
The Complete Book of Painting and Drawing  751.4 Woods

Guía del dibujo  SP 741.2 Foster
Curso completo de dibujo  SP 741.2 Simpson
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain  741.2 Edwards
Drawing Workbook: A Complete Course in 10 Lessons  741.2 Bays

Cartoonists  YN 920 Steffans
Fantasy! Cartooning  YN 741.5 Caldwell
Action! Cartooning  YN 741.5 Caldwell
Dibujando caricaturas  SP 741.5 Pastecca
Superhero Explosion  YN 741.5 Yamamoto
Manga Mania: Shoujo  YN 741.5 Hart
Cómo dibujar manga  SP YN 741.5952 Como
Cómo dibujar cómics de kung fu  SP YN 741.51 Cheung

Shojo Beat's Manga Artist Academy  YN 741.51 Shojo
Manga School With Selena Lin: Draw Your Own Manga  YN 741.5 Lin
Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel  YN 741.5 Gertler

KISS Guide to Photography  771 Garrett
The Basic Book of Photography  770 Grimm
Curso complete de fotografía  SP 771 Jospeh
Photography: An Illustrated History  YN 770.9 Sandler
Digital Photography Essentials: Point, Shoot, Enhance, Share  771 Sadun

The Book of Movie Photography: The Complete Guide to Better Moviemaking  778.53 Cheshire

Spraycan Art  751.73 Chalfant
Graffiti World: Street Art From Five Continents  751.73 Ganz
Chicano Graffiti and Murals: The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada 759.13 Kim
Signs From the Heart: California Chicano Murals  751.73 Cockcroft

How to Draw Hip-Hop  YN 741.2 Scott
The Book of Hip Hop Cover Art  741.66 Emery

Aerografia creative  SP 741.29 Duckett
The Ultimate Airbrush Handbook  751.494 Shanteau

Artesanía y arte del barro  SP 738.1 Peterson
Boards: The Art + Design of the Skateboard  YN 796.22 Boards
Visual Chronicles: The No-Fear Guide to Creating Art Journals  YN 702.81 Woods

Fiction with Art / Artists Echo  Y Block
Thwonk  Y Bauer
Freewill  Y Lynch
One Shot  Y Glick
MARS  Y GN Mars
Speak  Y Anderson
Chill  Y Pbk Frizzell
Buddha Boy  Y Koja
Simon Says  Y Alphin
Graffiti Girl  Y Parra
Model  Y GN Model
A Single Shard  Y Park
Plain Janes  Y GN Janes
The Blue Mirror  Y Koja
Born Confused  Y Hidier
DNAngel  Y GN DNAngel
Julia's Story  Y Pbk Harris
My Cat Loki  Y GN MyCat
Heck, Superhero  Y Leavitt
The Monument  Y Paulsen
The Big Nothing  Y Fogelin
Who Are You?  Y Pbk Nixon
Emiko Superstar  Y GN Emiko
Chasing Vermeer  J FIC Balliett
Pictures of Hollis Woods  Y Giff
When Dad Killed Mom  Y Lester
The Boyfriend List  Y Pbk Lockhart
Rain Is Not My Indian Name  Y Smith
Better Than Running At Night  Y Frank
13 Little Blue Envelopes  Y Pbk Johnson
Girl With a Pearl Earring  Y Pbk Chevalier
Autobiography of My Dead Brother  Y Myers
The True Meaning of Cleavage  Y Fredericks
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian  Y Alexie
Stop Pretending: Or , What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy  Y Sones

Gettin' Crafty (Crafts)

Sew Teen: Make Your Own Cool Clothes  YN 646.404 Zent
Sew Fast Sew Easy: All You Need to Know When You Start to Sew  YN 646.2 Meyrich
Softies: Simple Instructions for 25 Plush Pals  YN 745.592 Lasky
Tease: 50 Inspired T-Shirt Transformations by Superstars of Art, Craft & Design  YN 746 Tease
Customizing Cool Clothes  YN 746.222 Haxell
101 secretos de costura  SP 646.2044 Ciento

Stich N' Bitch: The Knitters Handbook  YN 746.432 Stoller
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knitting and Crocheting  746.432 Diven
El Gran Libro Del Crochet  SP 746.434 Temprano
Primer libro de punto  SP 746.432 Behrens

Decorating with Seashells  745.55 Crane
Metal Crafting Workshop  745.56 Browning
Metales  SP 745.56 Gomez
Ductigami: The Art of the Tape  Yn 745.5 Wilson
Ikebana: The Art of Arranging Flowers  745.9225 Sato
Marcos de fotos: Hechos por ti  SP YN 749.7 Rogaczew
Souvenirs para toda ocasión  SP 745.5 Poratto
Tabletop Fountains: 30 Projects to Renew Your Spirit  745.593 Le Van
The Ultimate Balloon Book: 46 Projects to Blow Up, Bend & Twist  745.594 Levine
The Complete Candlemaker: Techniques, Projects & Inspirations  745.5933 Coney
Velas  SP 745.593 Velas
Gourds: Southwest Gourd Techniques & Projects From Simple to Sophisticated  745.5 Gibson

Vintage-Style Beaded Jewelry  745.5942 Schneebe
Bead on a Wire: Making Wire and Beaded Jewelry  745.5942 Miller

The Art of Calligraphy  745.6197 Harris
The Art & Craft of Hand Lettering  745.61 Cicale
The Calligrapher's Bible: 100 Complete Alphabets and How to Draw Them  YN 745.61 Harris

Cards That Pop Up, Flip & Slide  YN 741. 684 Jacobs
The Encyclopedia of Origami & Papercraft  745.54 Jackson
Tarjetas y postales: ideas para cada occasion  SP YN 745.54 Hartel
Ultimate Cardmaking: A Collection of 75 Favorite Projects  745.5941 Beaman

Teach Yourself Visually Scrapbooking  745.593 Ludens
Create Digital Memories: Scrapbooking With Your Computer  745.593 Rose
The Book of Us: A Guide to Scrapbooking About Relationships  YN 754.54 Pedersen
The Decorated Journal: Creating Beautifully Expressive Journal Pages  YN 745.593 Diehn

Expressive Handmade Books  YN 686.302 Golden
The Essential Guide to Making Handmade Books  YN 686.3 Fox
Making Books By Hand: A Step By Step Guide  YN 741.64 McCarthy
Books, Boxes and Portfolios: Binding, Construction, and Design Step-By-Step  Yn 686.3 Zeier
The Penland Book of Handmade Books: Master Classes in Bookmaking Techniques  YN 686.3 Penland
Paper in Three Dimensions: Origami, Pop-Ups, Sculpture, Baskets, Boxes and More  745.54 Maurer-Mathison

Music to Our Ears (Bands & Music)

Non-Fiction

Making Gourd Musical Instruments  784.1923 Summit
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments  781.91 Illustrated

How to Read Music  781.24 Evans
The Basic Guide to How to Read Music  780.7 Cooper
The Complete Guitar Course  YN 787.87 Fleming
Digital Music Making for Teens  YN 781.344 Hagerman
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Band  YN 781.66 Bliesene

Touch Me, I'm Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You've Ever Heard  YN 782.4216 Reynolds
The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip-Hop & The Poetry of a New Generation  811.508 Spoken

Hip Hop America  YN 782.42 George
Hip Hop Immortals  YN 782. 42 Malone
The Vibe History of Hip Hop  YN 782.42 Vibe
The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip Hop  782.42 Williams
Where You're At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet  YN 782.42 Neate
Queens reigns supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler  YN 364.106 Brown

Classic Rock Stories  YN 781.66 Morse
Rock en Español: The Latin Alternative Rock Explosion  YN 781.6609 Lechner
Voices of Latin Rock: People and Events that Created This Sound  781.66 McCarthy
Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends and Curses  781.66 Patterson

Spin: 20 Years of Alternative Music  YN 781.66 Spin
Say It Loud: The Story of Rap Music  YN 784.5 Jones
Jazz: A History of America's Music  781.6509 Ward

Angry Blonde  782.42 Eminem
Tori Amos, Piece by Piece  YB Amos
John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth  YB Lennon
Elvis Presley: The King of Rock 'N' Roll  YB Presley
Foolish/Unfoolish: Reflections in Love  782.42 Ashanti
The Beatles: The Music Was Never the Same  YB Beatles
A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead  782. 4216 McNally

Fiction with Music & Musicians
Nana  GN Nana
King Dork  Y Portman
So Lyrical  Y Pbk Cook
This Lullaby  Y Dessen
Born to Rock  Y Korman
Last Days  Y Pbk Westerfield
Gravitation  Y GN Gravitation
LBD: Live & Fabulous!  Y Dent
Rock Star Superstar  Y Nelson
La Corda D'Oro  Y GN LaCorda
Hip Hop High School  Y Sitomer
Just Listen  Y BC/CD FIC Dessen
Fat Kid Rules the World  Y Going
Glass Harmonica  SF Pbk Marley
Full Moon O' Sagashite  Y GN FullMoon
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist  Y Cohn
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys  Y Block
The Beautiful City of the Dead  Y Pbk Watts
Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star  Y Powell
Confessions of a Backup Dancer  Y Pbk Shaw
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen  Y Sheldon
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Gothgirl  Y Lyga

Saving the World (Political Expression)

Non-Fiction
The Teen Guide to Global Action  YN 303.484 Lewis
Declare Yourself: Speak, Connect, Act, Vote  YN 323.042 Declare
Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama  YB Obama
Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics  320.973 Winograd
Generation Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life  YN 640 Sivertsen

Politics
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place  J FIC Konigsburg
Vote For Larry  Y Tashjian
My Perfect Life  Y Pbk Sheldon
The Misfits  Y Howe
All's Fair in Love, War and High School  Y Pbk Rallison
Hope Was Here  Y Bauer
All American Girl  Y Cabot

Ecology & Environment
The Beasties  Y Sleator
California Blue  Y Klass
Downriver  Y Hobbs
Eva  Y Dickinson
Green Thumb  Y Thomas
Hoot  Y Pbk Hiaasen
Flush  J FIC Hiaasen
SOS: la odisea de los búhos  SP Y Hiaasen
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind  Y GN Nausicaä
Saving the Planet and Stuff  Y Gauthier
Tangerine  J BC FIC Bloor

A Sense of Style (Fashion & Beauty)

Non-Fiction

Nail Art  YN 646.727 Haab
The Looks Book  YN 646.7 Odes
Maquillaje  SP YN 646.7042 Del Dago
Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty  YN 646.7046 Brown
Belleza al minuto: 1,000 arreglos rápidos  SP 646.7042 Berg

The Complete Book of Hairstyling  YN 646.724 Worthing
Hair: A Book of Braiding and Styles  YN 646.724 Johnson
Manual completo de peluquería de señoras  SP 646.724 Aguirre
Cabello!: peinados atractivos y favorecedores  SP 646.724 Schmidt

The Professional Model's Handbook  659.152 Balhorn

Fashion Sketchbook  741.672 Abling
Dress Pattern Designing  YN 646.43 Bray
National Geographic Fashion  779 Newman
Essential Fashion Illustration  741.672 LaFuente
Subculture: The Meaning of Style  YN 306.1 Hebdige
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Costume and Fashion  391.009 Cassin-Scott
More Than a Label: Why What You Wear and Who You're With Doesn't Define Who You Are  YN 305.2350

Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls  YN 747.77 Lennon
Secretos de feng shui para los 365 días del año  SP 133.3337 Too
Teen Feng Shui: Design Your Space, Design Your Life  YN 133.3337 Levitt

Fiction with Fashion, Models and Makeovers
Airhead  Y Cabot
Deenie  Y BLume
Model  Y GN Model
Just Listen  Y Dessen
Blood Roses  Y Block
Spin City  Y Pbk Clarke
Miss Smithers  Y Juby
Beauty Pop  Y GN Beauty
Uglies  Y Pbk Westerfield
Violet In Private  Y Walker
Never Give Up  Y GN Never
High School Debut  Y GN High
Nosatsu Junkie  Y GN Nosatsu
The Devil Wears Prada  Y Weisberg
The Wall flower  Y GN Wall flower / DVD GN WallFlower

Theater Arts (Movies, Dance, Acting & Theater)

Non-Fiction

Capoeira, a Brazilian Art Form  793.3 Almeida
Let's Dance! The Complete Book and DVD of Ballroom Dance Instruction  793.33 Pozo

The Power of the Actor  792.028 Chubbuck
The Ultimate Improv Book  YN 792.7028 Nevraumo
Spotlight: Solo Scenes for Student Actors  808.85 Fairbanks
The Book of Monologues for Aspiring Actors  YN 808.82 Book
Filmmaking for Teens  YN 791.4302 Lanier
Screenwriting for Teens  YN 808.23 Hamlett
Icons of Film: The 20th Century  YN 791.4375 Engelmei
Special Effects: In Film and Television  YN 791.4302 Hamilton

Bruce Lee  YB Lee
Escape! Story of the Great Houdini  YB Houdini
Charlie Chaplin: The Beauty of Silence  YB Chaplin
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor  B Campbell

Fiction With Plays, Actors, & Theater
Teen Idol  Y Cabot
Unscripted  Y Pbk Kaye
W Juliet  Y GN WJuliet
The Pretty One  Y Klam
Good as Lily  Y GN GOOD
Psyche in a Dress  Y Block
Love On Cue  Y PBK Hapka
The True Prince  Y Cheany
Secret Admirer  Y Pbk Stine
Summer Stars  Y Pbk Lerangis
The Playmaker  Y Pbk Cheaney
This Must Be Love  Y Sutherland
Shakespeare's Scribe  Y Blackwood
No More Dead Dogs  Y Pbk Korman
The Master Puppeteer  J FIC Paterson
Ouran High School Host Club  Y GN Ouran
Dial L for Loser: A Clique Novel  Y Harrison
Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox   Y Madison
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies  Y SONES

Fiction with Dance & Dancers
Shiva's Fire  Y Staples
On Pointe  Y Grover
Confessions of a Backup Dancer  Y Pbk Shaw

Wonderful Words (Writing, Blogs, Poems & Stories)

Non-Fiction

Zine Scene  YN 070.572 Block
Whatcha mean, what's a zine? The Art of Making Zines and Minicomics  YN 070.5 Todd

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft  B King
Curso de escritura creativa  SP 808.02 Martin-Abril
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life  808.02 Lamott
Write Where You Are: How to Use Writing to Make Sense of Your Life  YN 808.0420 Mirriam-Goldberg

The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics  YN 808.066 O'Neil
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel  YN 741.5 Gertler

Blogging for Dummies  006.7 Gardner
The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging  006.7 Huffint

Screenwriting for Teens  YN 808.23 Hamlett

The Teacher & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms  YN 808.1 Teachers

Fiction Featuring Writers
Hard Love  Y Wittlinger
Love that Dog  Y Creech
Violet and Claire  Y Pbk Block
Bronx Masquerade  Y Grimes
Jazmin's Notebook  Y Grimes
Taming the Star Runner  Y Hinton
Lily B. ON the Brink of Cool  Y Kimmel
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup  Y Koertge
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie  Y Lubar
Sorcerers & Secretaries  Y GN Sorcerers

Fiction Books Written by Teen Authors
Black Stallion  J FIC Farley (at 15)
Eragon  Y Paolini (at 18)
Eragon  SP Y Paolini (at 18)
Frankenstein  FIC Shelley (at 19)
Frankenstein  SP FIC Shelley (at 19)
In the Forests of the Night  Y Pbk Atwater-Rhodes (at 14)
The Outsiders  Y Hinton (at 16)
Rebeldes  SP Y Hinto (at 16)
Seventeeth Summer  Y Daly (at 17)
Twelve  FIC McDonell (at 18)

Non-Fiction Books Written by Teen Authors
Got Tape? Roll Out the Fun with Duct Tape  YN 745.5 Schneider (at 17)
Organizing from the Inside Out for Teens  YN 646.7 Morgenstern (at 19)
The Rose That Grew From Concrete  YN 811.54 Shakur (at 19)
Teen Angst, Naaaah  YB Vizzini (at 19)
Teens Cook  YN 641.5 Carle (at 19 & 16)

The Teen Summer Reading Program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

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