Teen Read Week: Turn Over a New Leaf

The Chippewa Falls Public Library will be offering youth between the ages of 7-18 an opportunity to “turn over a new leaf” at the library this fall. This program is a reading incentive to help clear up unpaid fines on library cards. It will cover current library card fines in exchange for time spent reading at the library, allowing young people to re-establish “good credit” on their library accounts.

Turn Over a New Leaf will be held on Tuesdays from 4 to 8 p.m. and Saturdays from noon to 4:30. The incentive starts on October 17 as a kickoff for Teen Read Week and ends on Monday, October 31. During these times participants will earn $0.50 for every 15 minutes of reading that they completed during the designated times. This program applies to overdue fines for returned Chippewa Falls items only, and does not apply to materials from other libraries, lost or damaged items, processing fees, or fines for materials that have not yet been returned.

The library desires all students to have access to the resources that they will need to complete their school assignments and succeed during the new school year, as well as develop their love of reading for pleasure. It is our hope that young people will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to turn over a new leaf this fall.

For information, stop at the Information Services Desk on your next visit to the library, call 715-723-1146 ore-mail the library. For information about other library program and events, check the library’s events calendar at our website.

For Tweens and Teens: Visual Poetry Contest

Do you know a Chippewa County resident in the 6th-12th grades who's interested in photography? During the month of March here at the Chippewa Falls Public Library, we're holding the first annual Visual Poetry Contest. We're looking for original photographic work done during the last two years. Three winners get a free Papa Murphy's Pizza and a certificate, and there will be four honorable mentions, who will all receive ribbons. Tell a teen!

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The Database Place: Teen Health and Wellness

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It's not easy being a teenager. At least, I know I hated it.

Teens face issues like peer pressure, drugs, alcohol, sex, hormonal upheavals, violence, depression, bullying, cliques, grades, sports, etc.

The Chippewa Falls Public Library, however, keeps teens in mind. We have a pretty good young adult section and we're making the effort to give it a "This Is Yours" feeling for teens.

We also subscribe to The Teen Health and Wellness database. The search box is at the top of this blog entry. Tell a teen or teen-go-between about the database, if you'd be so kind. It has frank, accurate information that neither drags teens where they don't want to go nor insults their intelligence by skirting or padding the difficult.

It's worth a look. And it's all yours.