Got
Books? ‘07
Summer Reading Program for
Teens
Instructions
for Teens
How
To Start:
·
Pick up a registration packet at your public library.
Packets will be available beginning June 11.
·
Fill out the registration form and return it to your
library (form is in the registration packet). The official reading log is on
the back of the registration form and will be kept at the library.
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Please register at only
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If you register between June 11 and June 23, you’ll
receive a raffle ticket for a special prize drawing.
Then
What?
·
Keep track of what and how many pages you read beginning
June 11; use the sample log in your registration
packet or on the website to keep it all organized.
·
Next time you’re at the library, ask for the reading
log binder and copy your entries onto your form.
·
For every two hundred pages you read, you may
collect a prize (limit of four prizes per person)
o
Pick a cool prize from the prize box.
o
Be sure to fill out your drawing entry slip right
away and turn it in.
·
Even when you’ve reached your limit of prizes and drawing
entry slips, KEEP READING! While it’s fun to read for prizes, it’s even more
important to read for your own pleasure and enrichment! Read to feed your
brain :). Congratulate yourself for reading over 2000
pages and keep on going!
What
Counts?
·
You can read pretty much anything—books, magazines,
graphic novels, stuff from your school’s required summer reading list, even
audio-books (ask staff for help if you’re not sure how many pages in an
audio-book).
·
Don’t know what to read? Browse the Young Adult
Section or ask staff for suggestions. Friends are a great source, too!
·
Only books that you read between June 11 and
August 11 count toward the Got
Books? program.
Earn
More Drawing Entries by Writing Book Reviews:
·
For every two book reviews you write you will earn
another drawing entry slip (not to exceed 10 entries, including those received
for number of pages read).
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Book Review Forms are available in the Young Adult
Area, or ask library staff for some. Click here for a Book Review form to print from the
web.
·
Complete the forms and return them to staff to get
your drawing entry slip.
Prize
Drawings:
Each library will hold two
prize drawings during the summer—one in July and one in August (check the
calendar for dates). Some prizes are donated by local businesses. At the end of
the program and after the individual library drawings, all of the entry slips
from all of the libraries will be entered into a grand prize drawing.
There will be a limit
of one prize per person per drawing.
Important
Dates:
June 11: Start reading!! Anything
you read from this date forward can be entered on your reading log.
June 23: Turn
in your registration sheet by this date to be entered in a special prize drawing.
August 11: Last day to make entries
in your reading log and to pick up prizes/drawing slips.
Special
Events:
Check the calendar
to find dates for these events at your library: “Duct Tape Crafts" and “Movie Spoofs.”