Want to connect with other readers?  Chat about books you love?  Vote on which book is the best book you’ve read all year?

Join the Brookline Library’s Online Teen Book Club!  This is NOT a required reading book club, but a forum for all of you teens to chat about your favorite books and authors, get recommendations on what to read next, and write reviews of your favorites.  I, Robin the Teen Librarian, will occasionally post books and discussions and invite you all to join in, but nothing is required, just a love of reading (and by reading, reading anything, so whatever you love, whether it’s manga or adventure sagas or vampire romances,…

Check out the photos from our Game On Summer Reading Finale!

Congratulations to all our participants!  Together you guys read 2,244 hours and wrote 96 reviews.  Not too shabby!

At our Breaking Dawn Release Party, we all made pocket shrines to our favorite characters, the books, and the author—check them out! I’m amazed at the skill and creativity of these creators.

Get ready for the finale of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series! Saturday 1-4pm at the Coolidge Corner Branch, 31 Pleasant Street, Brookline.

At our party:
Discuss the books
Become a vampire (sparkles!)
Win one of two copies of Breaking Dawn
Make a pocket shrine to the series or your favorite character
Eat vampire-themed delicacies
Test your Twilight trivia knowledge

See you there!

Teens going into 7th-12th grades are cordially invited to attend a reception to celebrate the release of the 4th book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.

Vampire and semi-formal attire encouraged
Sink your teeth into vampire-themed treats
Test your Twilight trivia knowledge
Raise your glass to celebrate the engagement
Win one of two brand new copies!

When: 1:00 pm until 4:00 pm Saturday August 2
Where: Coolidge Corner Library, Meeting Room

Friday July 25th, 1-4pm, Main Library
See how far you can get in the hunt for clues in our Photo Scavenger Hunt!
Download the flyer here
Since we had such a blast in the spring, we’re holding our second Photo Scavenger Hunt.  We’ll provide the cameras and the pizza, your bring your treasure hunting skills.  The clues will be tougher, so be creative, and there will be food!

Click here to download the team sign up and permission forms! You must bring these to the library by July 24th to participate.

Check out the photos from our Gaming Tournament launch for the Game On Summer Reading Program.  Over 30 teens attended, and they are already demanding more.  Remember, the finale is Friday August 29th, where we’ll have more gaming and the prize raffle for the entire summer program.  This is all possible thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Brookline Library—thanks for all your support!

Let me know by commenting here what kind of games you’d like to play, plus any interest you might have in gaming once the school year starts.  Monthly meetings?  When?  Let me know!

If you’re a teen going into grades 7 through 12 join us for gaming, reading, and everything in between.
However you read this summer—with books, comics, magazines, audiobooks, or reading to someone else, sign up for our Teen Summer Reading program to get show off your reading and earn chances for excellent prizes at our end of the Gaming Tournament and Prize Finale.  Sign up in the library or online, and you’ll automatically be entered into our weekly raffles.  The more you read, the more tickets you gain for the Finale Gaming Tournament and Prize Raffle.

Every two hours you read = one ticket. Every title you read off of the Game One Reading List (coming soon!) = 2…