Summer Reading Celebration!

Teens (Ages 12-18)

How to Participate ...

1. Teens, sign up at your local library or online starting June 1

2. Read 5 books and complete 5 reviews (written or by video) to reach the reading goal and receive a free book. 

3. Additional prizes awarded after every 5 books read

3. Only those books read between June 1 and July 31 will be eligible. 

Please Note: Those who are 12 years old can choose to participate in the teen program or children's program

Book Trailer Contest

Those who provide a video review will be automatically entered into the Book Trailer Contest.  Our judges will select the best video review and the winner will receive a Kindle Fire!  Learn More!

Summer Reading Prizes for Teens!!

• Prize Book 
• Movie Tickets
• $50 gift cards to Barnes & Noble and Hicklebee's
• Mystery Grab Bag Prize

  Participate this summer in the

 4th annual Graphic Novel Contest! 

 Part of the Summer Reading Celebration.

Check our calendar page for other FREE activities to enjoy this summer!

Teen Volunteers Needed for the Summer Reading Celebration!

Help promote the library's summer reading program by registering children and awarding prizes.

Teens: want to do something more imaginative than just writing a review for Summer Reading books that you have read? Create and submit a book trailer review for Summer Reading, and you could win a Kindle Fire! Upload a short clip, no longer than 4 minutes, to YouTube, providing your review of the book. Be creative!  The contest is open to all participants in the Teen Summer Reading Celebration.

How to enter:

• Create your own book trailer, reviewing a book that you read for Summer Reading. You can submit more than one video, but each video has to be for a separate book.
• Post the video on YouTube using the tag: SJPL2012SRC
• Sign up for Summer Reading here, starting in a few weeks.
• When you log the book you read on the Summer Reading website, make sure to include a link to your video in the review field.

Entries will be judged on creativity and content by a panel of library staff.

Need some examples? Check out the winning entry from last year's Book Trailer Contest, created by Nathan Verdonk.

Here are links to some professional book trailers:

- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

- The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler

Teens who submit links to their Book Trailer will automatically be entered in the contest. The top 3 winners will receive:

• 1st place: Kindle Fire
• 2nd place: $50 gift card for iTunes
• 3rd place: $25 gift card for Jamba Juice 

Entries for the contest must be submitted between June 1 and July 31, 2012.   Winners will be announced in August.

Congratulations to the winners! - Check out their Work!

Children up to age 6

1st place: Joaquin Albornoz, age 5, “Joaquin’s Birthday Party”

Honorable Mention: Kapil Kumar age 5 1/2 , “Sharing and Friendship”

Children ages 7-12

1st place: Nathan Koketsu, age 11, “Adventure in the Open Sea”

2nd place: Madurya Suresh, age 9, “The Search for the Sun”

3rd place: Laura Shieh, age 12, “Silver Dandelion”

Honorable Mention:  Audrey Chiang, age 8, “The Firefly and her Glow”

Teens

1st place: Apanuba Mahmood, age 14, “Flaming Resolve! – Fleeting Demon Encounter”

2nd place: Huyen Nguyen (Chibi Teresa), age 15, “Phantom Dream Hunter: The Prologue”

3rd place: Sienna Gonzales, age 14, “Colored Pencils”

Honorable Mention: Thu Nguyen, age 14,  “Terra”

Adults

1st place: Queena Xu, “Butterfly Wish”

2nd place: Christine Bainbridge, “A Dream”

3rd place: Eric Elemen, “Super Busy Dad”

Honorable Mention: Darren Tat, “Death Match”

For more photos, please vist the San Jose Public Library Flickr site.

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If you have a talent for creating comic/manga style illustrated short stories, you are invited to enter San José Public Library’s Graphic Novel Making Contest for all ages as part of our Summer Reading Celebration, 2012. This contest is sponsored by San José Public Library, Hijinx Comics, San José Museum of Art and TRY Japan Culture Group.

Here’s how to enter …

• Create your own comic book with a maximum length of 8 pages, including the cover page.
• Use letter-size paper (8.5 x 11) with black-and-white drawings and text on one side only.
• Each submission must be the creative and original work of a single individual—the author/illustrator.
• The contest is limited to amateur authors/ illustrators only.
• Computer generated images are acceptable as long as they are your original work (no clip art)
• Consider submitting a photocopy that is an accurate reflection of the original (as submissions are non-returnable).
• San José Public Library reserves the right to reproduce your work. You can reuse all your work after the contest.
• Be sure to print and complete the creative works release form. Include your Name, Age, Contact Information and Signature.
• Entries can be submitted to any San José Public Library location no later than 8p.m. on Wednesday, August 1, 2012.  There is a limit of one entry per contestant.

Entries will be judged on content and illustrations by a panel of library staff and comic industry professionals. All cash prizes will be awarded as gift cards. 

• Children (up to age 6): first place will receive Art Supplies
• Children (7-12):  first place $40, second place $20
• Teens (ages 13-17):  first place $100; second place $70; third place $50
• Adults (age 18 and above):  first place $100; second place $70; third place $50

Winners will be announced and prizes awarded at a reception to be held at the Berryessa Branch Library on Saturday, August 25th at 2:00 p.m.in the Community Room. 

Check out the award winning entries from 2011 and 2010. We're discussing last year's winners and other graphic novels in the Online Book Club during June and July.      

Learn how to make your own comic book, graphic novel or manga!  Oliver Chin will be teaching this free workshop for teens at some San José Public Library branches.

San José Public Library staff members are ineligible to participate.

San José Public Library reserves the right to refuse submissions that are not appropriate for a general audience. This contest is open to all California residents.

SOCIAL WORKERS IN THE LIBRARY

NEED HELP?  

Help is here:  SOCIAL WORKERS IN THE LIBRARY

At King Library: Every 1^st and 4^th Mondays of the month, 6 – 8 p.m.

Call: 808-2350

Or

At Biblioteca Latinoamericana – offered once a month – every 3^rd Wed. of the month 6 – 8 p.m. (Spanish/English bilingual Social Worker available)

Call: 294-1237

Is something happening in your life that you have questions about concerning:

·  Education

·  Emergency Services - food/clothing/housing and crisis support

·  Employment

·  Family Matters - parenting, childcare, divorce, elder issues and domestic  violence

·  Health Improvement - mental, physical and health insurance

·  Immigration

·  Support Groups - men, women and teens

Make an appointment to get a FREE 20 minute session of information and referral or advice, from a member of the National Association of Social Workers. Everyone at some point in their lives could use the advice of a social worker. Our volunteer social workers are offering it - Free of Charge.

Social Workers in the Library, is a partnership between the San José Public Library, San José State University's School of Social Work,  National Association Of Social Workers - California Chapter, and the SJSU School of Library and Information Services.

San Jose public Library and Kaplan will be offering a series of practice tests in April that give you the opportunity see how you would score on the SAT and ACT tests.  In this 4 hour practice exam, you will take half of each test, and try your hand at the types of questions you will see on the actual tests.  These practice tests are open to all High School Students. 

Evergreen Branch Library

Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 1:00pm

Berryessa Branch Library

Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 1:00pm

King Library (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library)

Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 11:00am

 Santa Teresa Branch Library

Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 1:00pm

Willow Glen Branch Library

Saturday, April 28, 2012 - 1:00pm  

Please note that pre-registration is required for all of these events.   Please contact the library where you would like to take the practice test, in order to pre-register. 

In addition, you can check out a variety of new study books for both the SAT and the ACT.

Lastly, you may also want to look at the LearningExpress Library Tutorials, Tests, eBooks which are accessible with you library card, and have great College Preparation materials, including tools and tips for both the SAT and ACT.

Did you follow Battle of the Bands this year? Did you vote for your favorite bands?

All the bands had an additional chance at winning a prize this year:

our teensReach members voted for the best videos and here are the winners:

First place:

Second place:

Third place:

Honorable Mention:

Let us know what you think of the videos in the comments!