Lucky 500 - Winners!

And the (randomly chosen) winners are...


Leeshka
Iller3257
Olivia B
Cassandra S-H
Leah H


Congratulations! Please send us an email to abcreads@gmail.com & let us know at which library you'd like to pick up your prize!  Make sure you bring a photo ID when you go to pick up your prize.

You can visit our "Lucky 500 - with prizes!" post to view the comments by all the those who participated in our Lucky 500th contest.  Thanks to all of you for the kind words.

Lucky 500 - with prizes!

We are celebrating reaching 500 blog posts here at abcreads - yeah!  As part of our celebration, we have prizes for 5 lucky winners. All you have to do is answer, in the comments section of this post, one of these 5 questions!  The lucky winners will be chosen using a random number generator.

1. Which is your favorite ABC Library branch?

2. What is your favorite library memory?

3. What is the last thing you checked out from the library?

4. Have you ever stumped a librarian with a reference question?

5. Have you ever attended a library program - book group, movie, storytime, music event?  If you've attended more than one, which was your favorite?

The fabulous prizes are:

Share your love for the library on the blog to win a prize that will let you keep sharing the love with every swig of coffee you take & every meal you make!

Teen Read Week 2011

Are you a young adult? Or someone who enjoys young adult literature? If so, help us celebrate Teen Read Week 2011. This year's theme is Picture It @ your library®, which encourages teens to read graphic novels and other illustrated materials, seek out creative books, or imagine the world through literature, just for the fun of it. Teen Read Week runs from October 16 - 22.

You can celebrate Teen Read Week in a number of ways, including:

• Reading one of the Teen Top Teen nominations for 2011.
• Reading a graphic novel or comic (part of this year's focus!).
• Participating in one of ABC libraries' Teen Read Week programs (see below).
• Competing in YALSA's Teen Read Week photo contest.

Several library branches are celebrating Teen Read Week by offering programs just for teens. Sign yourself or your teen up for one! Click the links for more information on any of these programs.

• Photo Scavenger Hunt @ Cherry Hills (virtual) - deadline Monday, October 10 with slideshow at the October TAB meeting - Friday, October 21st
• Stenciling @ East Mountain - Saturday, October 15th
• Wii Gaming @ East Mountain - Wednesday, October 19th
• Kanji Japanese Calligraphy @ East Mountain - Saturday, October 22
• Horror Movie Screening @ Lomas Tramway - Friday, October 21

A Contest for Teens!

Hey Teens! This summer we are turning Cherry Hills Library into Cherrytopia and we need you! Cherrytopians, help us design

· A flag (Scholastic has a template you could use)

· A Cherrytopian national costume (For some examples of folk costume, click here)

· Currency (For a list of world currencies, click here)

· The words to a national anthem (Visit nationalanthems.info)

Submit your entries to the Cherry Hills Library Information Desk, Cherry Hills TAB on Facebook, or cherryhills@cabq.gov by Thursday, February 24th. If you need ideas, check out How to Build Your Own Country by Valerie Wyatt.

Winning designs will receive a Borders gift card!