Remembering summer fun.  One of the most popular summer programs was Make a Splash with Techno-Junk. An area recycling company Asset LifeCyle delivered  5 huge boxes of electronic and/or technology junk. Teens were encouraged to remove the screws...

"Welcome to Twitter! Let the boy-stalking  (ahem, following!) begin."

So begins this novel told entirely in e-mails, blogs and tweets between four high school friends.

Claire (ClaireRBear) has been crushing on JD forever, although he doesn't know she exists. When JD(TopofGame17) starts following Claire on Twitter, she's really happy, but also confused, since in person he acts totally different.

For a very modern take on high school relationships, check out Tweet Heart (a novel in e-mails, blogs and tweets) by Elizabeth Rudnick!

It was great to be a teen at the library on July 29! More than 45 young adults got to sample fruit kabobs on a stick, banana, strawberry & juice smoothies, and ham and cheese sandwiches. There were prizes awarded for the best hula...

Topeka's Young Brail rapped at the library as part of Summerfest 2010. Teens poured into The Edge to check out his sharp lyrics and mad dance skills. See for yourself in the video inside this blog.

When her parents go out of town for a week, Gretchen Yee wakes up as a fly on the wall, trapped in the boys locker room of her school. At first she is just freaked out at her metamorphosis, and then she gets mad at how much better the boys locker room is than the girls. And once the guys arrive on Monday morning to change and shower for gym class...! Obviously this book has a quirky premise modeled on Kafka's story, but E. Lockhart's writing will quickly draw you into the story and the insights that Gretchen has as a fly on the wall of the boys locker room are quite revealing.

Fly on the Wall: how one girl saw everything by E. Lockhart