Happy Teen Read Week - October 17-23, 2010
Teen Read Week is an intiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)! YALSA started the week in 1998 and each year there is a theme ---- this year's theme ---- Books with Beat @ the library, which YALSA hopes to encourage teens to read poetry, audiobooks, books about music, and more. Help celebrate Teen Read Week by checking out what your town libraries are going to help celebrate this week. Teens have many entertainment options ---- we librarians don't want them to forget about all the entertainment they can find within the library! Reading is fun and we need to encourage fun reading for teens! Okay and for folks who need to hear about research ---- "Research shows that teens who read for fun have better test scores and are more likely to succeed in the workforce." Yes, taken verbatium from YALSA's page on ALA's website. Now get out there and ENCOURAGE TEENS TO READ! --- and don't forget to check out our library!
