Voting for the 2009 Teens’ Top Ten is now open!  You can vote for up to three of your favorite titles from the 2009 nominees until September 18th–then see the winners announced in a webcast featuring WWE Superstars and Divas during Teen Read Week, Oct. 18-24.  Don’t see one of the nominated books on our shelves?  Check with the Youth Services Desk!

Become a Summer Reading volunteer at the Messenger Public Library!  Anyone going into grades 6-12 in the fall can complete the Teen Volunteer Application Form Summer 2009.  Return your application to the library by Saturday, May 30th.  Volunteer training sessions will be held on Wednesday, June 10 at 6:30 pm and Thursday, June 11 at 2:00 pm.  This is a great way to earn service hours or to get experience for a college or job application.  Questions?  Visit the Youth Services desk or call us at 630-896-0240 x. 2310.

April showers bring May flowers, but in the meantime, we’re stuck with lots and lots of rain (and mud ).  That’s why Messenger Library has events like Teen Movies!  Coming up this Saturday, May 2 at 2:00 pm, the library will be showing “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” on the big screen, complete with popcorn and soda.

We’ve also got some awesome new teen books and DVD’s to keep you busy until the rain stops.  Check out Season One of Gossip Girl, the newest Naruto box set, or classics like She’s All That and Dirty Dancing. 

Looking for a good book?  Zombies are the new vampires, so get infected with the dystopian thriller/romance The Forest of Hands and Teeth by: Carrie Ryan, the small-town spookfest that is Zombie Blondes by: Brian James, or the “differently biotic” teens of Generation Dead by: Dan Waters.  Hey, at least you’ll be prepared for the zombie apocalypse, right? 

If zombies aren’t your thing, we’ve also got hot new reads like Jumped by: Rita Williams-Garcia (Dominique plans to jump Trina, but Leticia isn’t sure if she should tell Trina or just not get involved), Meltdown by: Andy McNab and Robert Rigby (the 4th book about brothers Danny and Fergus who must help MI5 to stop a new, deadly drug to clear their own names), and The King’s Rose by: Lisa M. Libby (Catherine Howard becomes Henry VIII’s fifth wife knowing that secrets in her past could lead her to the same tragic end as Henry’s first 4 wives).

Some Twilight news for you:

Messenger Public Library will be showing the Twilight movie this Saturday, March 21 at 2:00 pm on the big screen!  So give us a call to register at 630-896-0240 x.2310 and join us for an Edward/Jacob fix (complete with snacks!)

The Creation Entertainment “Salute to Twilight” convention will be coming to Chicago in August!  There don’t seem to be any specific details on the Chicago convention yet, but at least you can mark your calendars for October 2-4 and keep on checking for more info.

In other exciting library news, we’ve got a special spring break program coming up on Thursday, April 2 at 2:00 pm–Altered Books.  We’ll be recycling used books by making them into works of art!  There will be lots of gluing, painting, glittering etc. so if you love being crafty, this is your program   Call us at 630-896-0240 x.2310 to register.