T.A.G. @ WTPL

This month's TAG meeting was all about summer reading (which starts June 20th!).

There's a lot of new changes this year in the teen summer reading program. You will be able to earn prizes by earning "Mystery Money Points."

100 pages read = 1 point
1 book read and book review written = 3 points
1 program attended = 1 point
1 hour volunteer time = 1 point

For more details on points and how the new program will work, take a look at the summer reading page on http://www.wtpl.org/teens.htm. You can also print out a handout and calendar from there.

We also looked through some of the summer prizes to decide how many points different things are worth and brainstormed more prize ideas.

The most popular prize idea for a prize drawing (if you earn over 125 points) seems to be a gift certificate of some kind.

There will be over 25 programs offered this summer for teens in grades 6 and up.

In August, we'll be forming a NEW High School book group for grades 9 and up.

We also started making decorations for summer reading. We can't hang anything on the walls this year (because of the new paint) so the decorations can only go on the windows, bookcases, doors, or hung from the ceiling. Any ideas? So far we're hanging question marks.

I'll be at LVMS some time next week to talk up summer reading to some of the classes. So I might see some of you then!

The next TAG meeting will be Tuesday July 3 at 7:00. I know it's right before a holiday... please let me know if you'll be able to make it or not.

Thoughts??? Ideas??? Comments??? Use the comment link on the top left of the page!