Teen Summer Reading Program

Join the South Orangetown Teen Summer Reading Program. Record you summer reading for cool raffle prizes. June 22 thru August 3rd, 2012. Earn one raffle ticket for every 350 pages read. Go to http://bit.ly/LM72Ci to create your account & sign up for the Arcade to Go Kickoff Party. Start logging pages read on Fri., June 22, 2012.

Follett eBooks

This is the link to the Rockland County School Library System eBook Collection. This eBook Collection is shared by Rockland Country and has over 400 books you can use read on-line, on your tablet or smart device. To check out a book from this collection use the following information:
username: rsls
password:guest
If you have any question, contact me at : peyer@socsd.org
Happy Reading!

YALSA Teen Book Finder APP

The YALSA Teen Book Finder is a available for free download from the Apple App Store. The YALSA Teen Book Finder is the first app created by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association.Teen.

The free app, which highlights books and media from YALSA’s awards and selected book and media lists, can be run on an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad. YALSA’s Teen Book Finder is available thanks to generous funding by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.

This week I teamed up with the Teen Services public librarian to begin talking about summer reading. Allowing the students to come to the library with their smart phones in order to download this app is going to be an awesome way to get those teens engaged. The Teen Book Finder is a great way for teens, parents, teachers and librarians to get suggested titles from our wonderful recommended lists and awards for teens. I just wish it located the book in local libraries...it doesn't :(

Visit the Apple App Store and download the free Teen Book Finder now.

The Teen Book Finder’s features include:
■books and media from all of YALSA’s awards, including the Alex, Edwards, Morris, Nonfiction, Odyssey and Printz;
■the past three years of YALSA’s selected book and media lists;
■all books selected for the Teens’ Top Ten;
■three Hot Picks, featuring different titles from the database, refreshed each day;
■the ability to search for books by author, title, award or list year, genre, by award and by book list;
■a Find It! button, powered by the OCLC WorldCat Search API, that will show users where to find the book in a nearby library and a book’s available format, including audiobook and e-book;
■a Favorites button, to create an individualized reading list;
■the ability to share books from the Teen Book Finder on Twitter and Facebook.

2012 Teens' Top Ten

Grimm Book Club At Tappan Library

2012 South Orangetown Summer Reading Intro & Titles