2016: Get in the Game
Sports
Baseball/Softball
Basketball
Football
Girls in Sports
Running
Fitness
Weight
Program and Display Ideas:
Pinterest
2015: Unmask
Superhero
Program ideas:
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2014: Spark a Reaction
STEM books
Program ideas:
Pinterest
2013: Groundbreaking Reads
Zombies
Program Ideas:
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2012 Slogan: Own the Night
Book Ideas: The following book lists have been updated/created at the book list page.
Vampires
Werewolves
Graves
Spa/Resorts
Monsters
Ghosts
Dreams
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You Are Here
The 2011 CSLP Teen Summer Reading Program
Slogans: You Are Here (official), Road Trip, Read Across the USA
Booklists:
Road Trip:
Far From You
How to Be Bad
Paper Towns
Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour
Surf Mules
Drive Me Crazy
Going Bovine
Crash Into Me
Stolen Car
Becoming Chloe
Abundance of Katherines
Lightning Thief
The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys
Homecoming
Rules of the Road
Two Way Street
Ostrich Boys
Car Trouble
Books By State
Alabama: The Splendor Falls , The Debutante, A Summer of Kings, Fake ID, and Looking For Alaska
Alaska: Snow in Love, Touching Spirit Bear, Amazing Grace, Winterdance, Dogsong, Jason’s Gold, Wildman Island, Hatchet, and Far North
Arizona: My Father’s Son, Witch’s Canyon, Love, Stargirl, and Stargirl
Arkansas: You Are So Undead to Me, Undead Much, Homestretch, Fire From the Rock
California: California Dreaming, California Holiday, Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped, Drama High series, Second Base Club, All Unquiet Things, Poser, Art Geeks and Prom Queens, DIVAS series, Tempo Change, Prism, Messed Up, We Were Here, Star Power, Dead is So Last Year, Twenty Boy Summer, Crash Into Me, Sophomore Switch, Gone, Shifty, Invisible Girl, Out of the Pocket, Suckerpunch, Accidentally Fabulous, Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty, Hot Sour Salty Sweet, The Day I Killed James, Bliss, Little Brother, Identical, Mexican Whiteboy, Playing with the Boys, Surf Ed, Honey Chica Blonde, Virtual Life of Lexie Diamond, The Black Sheep, Girl in Development, Fresh Off the Boat, Hollywood Hustle, Bad Kitty, Buried Onions, Laguna Cove, Dating Game, Queen of Second Place, Faking 19, Nannies, Seven Deadly Sins series, So Hard to Say, Alosha, A Boy No More, Earthquake at Dawn, Afterlife, Walk Across the Sea, The Counseling, Rush, Mermaid’s Mirror, and Girl to the Core
Colorado: Heartbreak River, School for Dangerous Girls, Meridian, Undone, Or Not, Goddess Games, Slalom, The Girls, Balancing Act, and Best Girl
Connecticut: Prom and Prejudice, Manifest, Aces Up, Alibi Junior High, Spy!, Swoon, Mixed Bags, Patron Saint of Butterflies, The Other Half of Me, Open Ice, Pemba’s song, Girls for Breakfast, The Beast, Merchant of Death, and The Clock
Delaware: Anyone but You and Contents Under Pressure
Florida: Beach Blondes, Hoot, Flush, Deathday Letter, Scat, Forget You, Riding the Universe, Little Miss Red, Kingdom Keepers, Kiss in Time, Zeta or Omega, Paper Towns, Anatomy of a Boyfriend, Angels in Pink, I was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader, Tangerine, High Heat, South Beach, South Beach Sizzle, and House on the Gulf
Georgia: Cinderella Society, Ghost Huntress – the Awakening, Leigh Ann’s Civil War, Peaches, Letting Go of Lisa, Demon Trapper’s Daughter, Sea Change, Fallen, Chasing Romeo, Numbering All the Bones, and 47
Hawaii: Death by Bikini, Under the Blood Red Sun, A Boy No More, and A Boy at War
Idaho: Sledding Hill, King of Slippery Falls, Princess for Hire, and Girlwood
Illinois: An Off Year, Firespell, Project Mulberry, River Between Us, Ten Cents a Dance, Vixen, and Comeback Season
Indiana: Viola in Reel Life, Everything You Want, 13, Right Behind You, Rose Queen, Learning the Game, Teen Idol, and Prep
Iowa: Never So Green, Rotters, Shoeless Joe, Squashed, Stranded, and Vast Fields of Ordinary
Kansas: Far from Xanadu, In the Face of Danger, Last Dance at Frosty Queen, The Mark, and We Could be Brothers
Kentucky: Cobra Strike and Dream of Night
Louisiana: Labor of Love, Love Cajun Style, Shadow Mirror, Shadowed Summer, Sucks to be Me, and Walk of the Spirits
Maine: Maine Squeeze, Need, Complete History of Why I Hate Her, Converting Kate, Dead Beautiful, Delirium, Dishes, Dragon’s Eye, Summer Boys, Summer Girls, Look for Me By Moonlight, Tips on having a Gay (ex) Boyfriend, Meanicures, The Mosts, Must Love Black, Rhymes with Cupid, Season of Ice, Siren, Slayed, and View from the Top
Maryland: Alice series, Blindsided, Dark Secrets, Hero-Type, The Vespertine, and The World is Mine
Massachusetts: Amandine, Blind Faith, Bounce, Bridesmaid, Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life, Salem Witch Tryouts, Gallow’s Hill, Cycler, For Keeps, Gamer Girl, Girl in the Arena, Hex Education, Immortal Beloved, Principles of Love, Love and Lies, Miracle on 49th Street, Million Dollar Throw, Mostly Good Girls, Poison Apples, Pop Princess, President’s Daughter, Rag and Bone Shop, Shadow Hills, Sisters of Misery, Trouble, Clarity, and Vampire High
Michigan: Chasing Tail Lights, Cheated, Exit Strategy, Going for the Record, I Now Pronounce You Someone Else, The Morgue and Me, Snowed In, and Vampire Crush
Minnesota: Chasing Alliecat, The Big Crunch, Playing Hurt, Dark Divine, Stork, Donut Days, Full Service, Twelve Months Long, Saturday Night Dirt, Defect, Farm Team, Winter Room, Jerk California, Absolutely Positively Not, Somebody’s Daughter, Abarat, and Soldier’s Heart
Mississippi: Mississippi Trial:1955, My Vicksburg, Drummer Boy of Vicksburg, Sources of Light, and Mississippi Jack
Missouri: Blood Magic, Almost Perfect, Deliver Us from Evie, A Family Apart, A Blue So Dark, Gateway, Cathy’s Ring, and Trail of Bones
Montana: Cryer’s Cross, Interrogation of Gabriel James, Last Exit to Normal,and Hattie Big-Sky
Nebraska: I am a genius of unspeakable evil and I want to be your class president, The Decoding of Lana Morris, and Blue Avenger and the Theory of Everything
Nevada: Burned, Raven’s Gate, Zach’s Lie, Compromised, My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters, Slide or Die, and Big City Cool
New Hampshire: Stained
New Jersey: Kick, Tell Us We’re Home, She’s So Dead to Us, Fire Will Fall, Center Field, Karma Bites, Jack, After Ever After, Accomplice, Rosie and Skate, Same Difference, So Punk Rock, Kaleidoscope Eyes, Everything Beautiful in the World, Streams of Babel, Absolute Brightness, Bullyville, The Girlfriend Project, Pinned, Shade of Simon Gray, Jess Darling series, Dunk, Jersey Tomatoes are the Best, Bumped, 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Last Little Blue Envelopes, Minder, Things I know about Love, Over the End Line, Scones and Sensibility, Anything But Ordinary, The Witch the Wizard and Two Girls from Jersey, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Keep Smiling Through, How Far Would You Have Gone If I Hadn’t Called You Back?, Ride into the Morning, Shadow People, Screen Test, and Time Enough for Drums
New Mexico: Last Summer of the Death Warriors, Muchacho, Brothers Torres, Z. Rex, Blood Secret, Desert Crossing, Surprising Cecilia, Kokopelli’s Flute, Summer of Fear, Shock Point, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood, The Green Glass Sea, Disappearing Act, and We Were Here
New York: 10 Thing to Do Before I Die, Airhead, All Q, No A: More tales of a 10th Grade Social Climber, Another Way to Dance, Ask Me No Questions, Back Talk, Beastly, Behind You, Blue Bloods Series, Bras & Broomsticks, Breakfast at Bloomingdale’s, Can’t Get There From Here, Chill Wind, City of Ashes, Confessions of a Teen Nanny, Cup Cake, Cures for Heartbreak, Enchanted, Inc., Every Time a Rainbow Dies, Fashion Frenzy, Fat Kid Rules the World, Gossip Girl, If I Have a Wicked Stepmother Where’s My Prince?, If You Came Softly, Insiders, It Chicks, Jinx, Magic or Madness, Missing Angel Juan, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Ripped at the Seams, So Yesterday, Speeding Bullet, Suite Scarlett, Summer Intern, The Celebutantes: On the Avenue, The Dead and Gone, The Earth My Butt and Other Big Round Things, The Poker Diaries, The Princess Diaries, Things Hoped For, Vamps, Venomous, Violet on the Runway, When we were Saints, Bright Young Things, and Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares
North Carolina: Ten Miles Past Normal, What Comes After, Shine, Cate of the Lost Colony, Keeping the Moon, The Baptism, Yellow Flag, Dovey Coe, Letters from a Slave Boy, Scrambled Eggs at Midnight, Prophet on Yonwood, Accidents of Nature, The Moves that Make the Man, and The Unspoken
North Dakota: Out of the Blue and Blizzard’s Wake
Ohio: End of the Line, I am Number Four, Panama, Say the Word, Struts & Frets, Speed Demon, A Little Friendly Advice, Before After and Somebody in Between, Twisted, Every Crooked Pot, Maggie’s Story, Soccer Chick Rules, Double Dutch, The Second Bend in the River, Sometimes Love isn’t Enough, and Lena
Oklahoma: Unraveled, So Not Happening, Divine By Blood, The Spectacular Now, Knights of the Hill Country, When the Bough Breaks, Paper Trail, Out of the Dust, The Secret Hour, Taming the Star Runner, and Golden
Oregon: It’s Raining Cupcakes, The Six Rules of Maybe, If I Stay, Monster High, Tiger’s Curse, The River, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, Paranoid Park, New Rules of High School, and Restoring Harmony
Pennsylvania: Sean Griswold’s Head, Woods Runner, Jekel Loves Hyde, God is in the Pancakes, Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side, The Last Full Measure, The Fortune of Carmen Navarro, Things are Going to Get Ugly, M+O 4evr, Going Nowhere Faster, Love Stargirl, Quaking, Zen and the Art of Faking It, Sleeping Freshman Never Lie, Live and Let Shop, Prom, Losing is Not an Option, Playing without the Ball, The Dark Days of Hamburg Halpin, The Heart is Not a Size, Three Rivers Rising, Forge, Tutored, Pretty Little Liars, Slept Away, Lipstick Apology, Sweetgrass Basket, Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Roadtrip, Fever 1793, Slap Your Sides, and Finishing Becca
Rhode Island: Tighter, Spotting for Nellie, The Possibilities of Sainthood, Devilish, Where I Want to Be, Faithful, Black Duck, and The Art of Keeping Cool
South Dakota:
South Carolina: Beautiful Creatures, Prime Choice, The Glory Field, The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove, Copper Sun, Brooklyn Rose, Just Jane, Cast Two Shadows, and Virals
Tennessee: Somebody Everyone Listens to, Something Rotten, How to Build a House, Artichoke’s Heart, Punkzilla, and Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers
Texas: Lovestruck Summer, Slice of Cherry, Where I Belong, Through Her Eyes, Illegal, Bleeding Violet, Lifted, Take me There, The One, Highway to Hell, Glass Houses, Deep in the Heart of High School, Friday Night Lights, Goodbye Season, Whip It, The Sweetheart of Prosper County, How not to be Popular, Isabel’s Texas Two-Step, Picture Perfect, Come Juneteenth, Boyfriend League, Whole Sky Full of Stars, Throwing Like a Girl, Tequila Worm, Room on Lorelei Street, Rules of the Road, Laugh Until You Cry, The Window, The Trap, Shadowmaker, Canyons, Love INC, Playing for Keeps, The Debs, Tantalize, Getting It, She’s got the Beat, and Going Going
Utah: Missing in Action, Sweethearts, Back When You Were Easier to Love, Trickster’s Girl, and The Maze
Vermont: Snow Queen, Game of Sunken Places, Fixing Delilah, Zombie Blondes, Kissing Snowflakes, Falling, Revealers, and The Education of Hailey Kendrick
Virginia: Close to Famous, Nothing Pink, Or Give Me Death, Angels in Pink, Forget-Her-Nots, The Letter Writer, In the Serpent’s Coils, Annie Between the States, Sarah’s Ground, Page by Paige, Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Girl in Blue, and With Every Drop of Blood
Washington: Shadow Walkers, Body Finder, Vesper, But I Love Him, Stay, Twilight, The Clearing, Five Flavors of Dumb, You Wish, Stringz, Harmonic Feedback, A Mighty Wall, Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Wild Roses, The Fortunes of Indigo Skye, Gym Candy, No Right Turn, and Skate
West Virginia: My Double Life, Funny How Things Change, Project Princess, and Close to Famous
Wisconsin: Dairy Queen, Rocky Road Trip, The Island, Seventeenth Summer, Drive Me Crazy, The Summer I got a Life, Where People Like Us Live, Teashop Girls, and Hope was Here
Wyoming: Unearthly, Like Mandarin, and Little Blog on the Prairie
Make Waves @ Your Library
The 2010 CSLP Teen Summer Reading Program
Booklists:
Water:
After Summer: Nick Earls
Along for the Ride: Sarah Dessen
Au Pairs series: Melissa de la Cruz
Beach Blondes, Tan Lines, and Spring Break: Katherine Applegate
Boys Next Door: Jennifer Echols
Caribbean Cruising: Rachel Hawthorne
Convicts: Ian Lawrence
Cruel Summer: Alyson Noel
Daughters of the Sea – Hannah: Kathryn Lasky
Death By Bikini: Linda Gerber
Dr. Franklin’s Island: Ann Halam
Drive Me Crazy: Erin Downing
Fireworks: four summer stories
Forgive My Fins: Tera Lynn Childs (out June 1, 2010) Girl at Sea: Maureen Johnson
Girlfriend Material: Melissa Kantor
Great Wide Sea: M.H. Herlong
How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls: Zoey Dean
Island Girls (and Boys): Rachel Hawthorne
Island Summer: Jeanine Ly Nye
Killer Cruise: Jennifer Shaw
Kingdom By the Sea: Robert Westall
Laguna Cove: Alyson Noel
Life of Pi: Yenn Martel
Local Girls: Jenny O’Connell
Lost City of Faar: D.J. Machale
Maine Squeeze: Catherine Clark
Necklace of Water: Cate Tiernan
The Night My Sister Went Missing: Carol Plum-Ucci
Pool Boys: Erin Haft
Rich Boys: Jenny O’Connell
Scones and Sensibility: Lindsay Eland
Sea Change: Aimee Friedman
Sea of Love: Jamie Ponti
Sea of Trolls: Nancy Farmer
So Inn Love: Catherine Clark
South Beach: Aimee Friedman
Spanish Holiday: Kate Cann
Spring Fling: Sabrina James
Summer Share: Shirt and Shoes not Required:Todd Strasser and Partiers Preferred: Randi Reisfeld
Switch: Carol Snow
Twenty Boy Summer: Sarah Ockler
Tropical Kiss: Jan Coffey
Vampire Beach series: Alex Duval
Walk Across Sea: Susan Fetcher
Water Mirror: Kai Meyer
Water Song: Suzanne Weyn
Snow:
As Simple As Snow: Gregory Galloway
Best Girl: Emma Harrison
Brian’s Winter: Gary Paulsen
Call of the Wild: Jack London
Do-Over: Niki Burnham
Double Twist: Donna King
East: Edith Pattou
Far from You: Lisa Schroeder
Frozen Rodeo: Catherine Clark
Golden Compass: Philip Pullman
Ice: Sarah Beth Durst
Iceman: Chris Lynch
Icing on the Lake: Catherine Clark
Kissing Snowflakes: Abby Sher
Kit’s Wilderness: David Almond
Let is Snow: John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle
Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis
Love on the Lifts: Rachel Hawthorne
Mistletoe: four holiday stories
Peak: Roland Smith
Prince and the Snowgirl: Simon Cheshire
Rash: Pete Hautman
Secret Santa: Sabrina James
Singer in the Snow: Louise Marley
Snow-Walker: Catherine Fisher
Snow Fire Sword: Sophie Masson
Snow in Love: Claire Ray
Snow Queen: Emma Harrison
Snowed In: Rachel Hawthorne
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow: Jessica Day George
Twelve Dates of Christmas: Catherine Hapka
White as Snow: Tanith Lee
Winter: Witch Season: Jeff Mariotte
Wintersmith: Terry Prachett
Protest/Revolution
Anastasia’s Secret: Susanne Emily Dunlap
Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: M.T. Anderson
Bad Queen: Carolyn Meyer
Before We Were Free: Julia Alvarez
Chains: Laurie Halse Anderson
Just Jane: William Lavender
Pale Assassin: Patricia Elliott
Red Necklace: Sally Gardner
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party: Ying Chang Compestine
Soldier’s Secret: Sheila Solomon Klass
Spy!: Anna Myers
Sold: Patricia McCormick
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break: Lensey Namioka
Make Waves (Figuratively!) Booklist
Programs
Crafts
Spa day: make your own beauty treatments or invite someone who does hair and makeup to show off summer trends
Watercolor painting
Tie Dye
Peeps in the Summer
DIY: summer collages
DIY: Decorate Flip-flops or Make Duct Tape Flip Flops
DIY: Shell Photo Frames
DIY Beach Bags
Sea Glass Jewelry
DIY: Anklets
DIY: Sand Art in bottles
Food
DIY: Popsicle, Snow Cones, Ice Cream, Mocktails, or Smoothies
Cooking Contest: use these ingredients to make something cool
Candy sushi
Events:
Luau
Water Balloon Fight – water gun fight
Photo Contest with water shots
Slogans
Go with the Flow
Summertime is finally here
Express Yourself @ Your Library
The 2009 CSLP Teen Summer Reading Program
THEATER
Performers contracted by Connecticut Libraries: Mystic Paper Beasts –
CRAFT IDEAS
I stumbled across this blog, from Craft magazine which might be helpful for planning of summer programs.
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I’m gearing my programs – artsy – towards a cumulative art exhibit. In Norwich, there are First Friday programs in Norwich. I’m going to host the exhibit in August in hopes that it will bring more people in than just teens.
I’m going to try:
Michelangelo Painting Night (from the manual)
Espresso Art (from the manual)
Woodburning
Mosaics for the Wall
Green Art (also from the Manual)
Plastic Bags: recycled fusing project
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Ideas from the ECYA group:
Candy Sushi – how-to pages: Fancy Candy Sushi, Family Fun, Recipe from the Food Network, Step by Step from About.com, a video how-to, Candy Sushi you can buy, 6
Ideas from the Capitol Region group:
Altered Books – Detailed description of how to do an altered books program from the Texas Teens Read! Program Manual, History of Altered Books, How-Tos 1, 2, 3, Lesson Plan, Examples 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, “Book Autopsies,” Book Resources 1, 2, 3,
Peep Portraits – Peeps Website, Big list of Peeps links, Book, Peeps Contest 2009, Showcase of Peeps Dioramas.
Some interesting finds: Flip Flop Collages, Shaving Cream Paper Marbling, Tesselation Projects – How to create a tesselation, Create a Jackson Pollock Online (fun!!), Mandala Maker Online, The Case of Grandpa’s Painting: An Art History Adventure.
Teen Bookmark Contest in Vancouver. How-to LOL-cat Purse. How-to Recycled Magazine Earrings.
PROGRAM IDEAS
TV Take Offs – American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, etc.
MISCELLANEOUS
Teen Library Program Ideas, A blog by Librarians with ideas for programs on summer reading ideas – to get you started, An idea wiki, The Texas State Library Teen Summer Reading Program Manual – Time Twistin’ Texas Teens Read 2009 –
Other Express Yourself @ Your Library Links: CSLP Manual Pages, Bookmark from Gale, How 1 library is dividing it up, An idea, The Madonna book by the subtitle “Express Yourself”, Bookmark contest, a slide show,
Wordle (mentioned at roundtables)
Library Express Yourself @ Your Library Webpages: Baltimore County Library,
ECYA Blog 