Friends of Montclair Library

October 13-19, 2013 is Teen Read Week, a national adolescent literacy initiative created by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) to encourage teens to be regular readers and library users.

OPL has a bunch of fun teen events planned at various branches (although not at Montclair) – see their website for a complete list.

In fact, OPL has a special section of their website just for teens: Visit http://oaklandlibrary.org/teens for a test prep help list, resources for staying healthy, jobs, scholarships, contests, events, reading recommendations and more.

For more inspiration, check out some teen book lists:

• OPL Teen Zone Teen Picks Pinterest board
• OPL Staff Picks for Teens
• Interactive Flowchart: Which YA Novel is Right for You? (New York magazine via Vulture) – including the option “I just want to know what my niece is talking about at Thanksgiving.”
• CNN’s “Young Adult Books that Changed Our Lives”
• Books Made Into Movies (beyond Hunger Games) from YALSA
• Teens can vote in the Teens Top Ten from YALSA and DogoBooks, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year.