MHLS - Teen Programs

'Tween and Teen Programs

NOTE: Generally, MHLS libraries consider 'tweens to be between ages 9 and 12/13 and teens between 12/13 and older.
This page has been designed with those age ranges in mind. Adapt these program ideas to make them age-appropriate, based on the level of interest and sophistication of your local young people.

EZ Library Program Database - Find Middle School & Teen Program ideas here! Search in Audience under Middle School or Teens.

General Program Resources ALA Suggestions Booktalking Community service programs Craft sites for teens (RoseMary Honnold) Dewey List of Programs Connecting YAs and Libraries by P. Jones et al., pp. 242-250 EZ Library Program database - Middle School \| Teens Free program ideas Passive teen programs (From No Limits Read! Young Adult Reading Club and Programming Manual by Lisa Youngblood. Pub.,Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 2002. "Chapter IV. Programs for Young Adults. http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/yareadingclub/part4.html) Program ideas (See YA Around by RoseMary Honnold) Program Record (More) Program ideas Texas State Library	Specific Program Ideas American Idol Judging Rubric - Singing Judging Rubric - Dance (Elizabeth Saxton, Cleveland Library) Rules & Regulations (Paula Anderson, Warwick, RI Library) Anime clubs Article from VOYA How to start club Operation Anime (Teens screen latest titles; library gets free copy.) Auctions Banned Books Week ALA site Battle of the Books (Tweens in MHLS program) Book Crossing (Sharing books throughout communities) Books to Movies Discussions Fresno Library Internet Movie Database Mid-Continent Library Skokie Library TeenReads Coffee Can of Probability CSI Programs - EZ Library Programs \| Other ideas Dungeons and Dragons Explanatory letter (to convince administration/Boards) How to Host D&D program Program description Official D&D website (rules, how to) Toolkit for After-School Adventures with D & D *FREE* Film Contests & Book-to-Movie Programs Coshocton Library Duxbury Free Library EZ Library Program Database Film editing software - Download MS MovieMaker (free) or Adobe Premiere Element ($100) Kathleen Odean's links Pink Panther Movie Night (CA Library, Jennifer Lawson) Programming ideas from Movie Licensing USA Reel Teens Film Contest/Festival (Woodstock & Hunter) Shout About Movies games Gaming Programs (Board AND video) Bloomington Public Library DDR-Borrow pad from MHLS \| What you need to know Dungeons and Dragons programs Fundraisers with board games Ideas from YA -YAAC It CAN Be Fun & Games @ Your Library Workshop [Sue Scott's handout ] [MHLS handout] [Workshop report] Lib Success wiki postings (See Past Events section for Guitar Hero entries) Library gaming blog Making your own video games Monopoly Tournaments \| Free Hasbro games National Game Week (Nov. 18-24) Request February 2005 issue of VOYA from Youth Services Reviews \| More reviews \| And more Skills mastered when gaming (use to make case for gaming equipment/programming in libraries) Graphic novels/cartooning Books in MHLS Professional Collection EZ Library Program database cartoon ideas Graphic novelist to do workshops - Barbara Slate Jim Sparks @ 845.628.8221 - drawing, photography, cartooning, art history presentations; Putnam librarians have hired him to do grades 6-12 – drawing, cartooning, photography Knitting Ideas Internet Safety Lawn chess (Build set w/Home Depot directions) Locked in the Library Music Programs Lyrics to latest songs Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lesson plans (ties music & literature) (See Six degrees of.., by Jana Fine, YALS Spr. '04, ProQuest) Shout About Music game Teen Programs with Music Tie-ins National Library Week ideas April 15-21, 2007 Scavenger Hunts - Library \| \|National Treasure Hunt Spanish programs (Texas State Library) Speed stacking tournaments Teen Poetry Week Teen Read Week (TRW)-Oct. 14-20, 2007 Writing - Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Places teens can publish work Creating zines
Older Teen Programs Booktalking Adult books for teens Teens Tips College Night Getting first job Program ideas Job handout Moral dilemma questions Prom prep Improv games Collection of ideas Improv Encyclopedia Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Games/Contests Contests in the library Fear Factor Gaming Icebreaker Games \| More group games (RoseMary Honnold) Human Bingo (Emily Fleischer, Brownsburg, IN Library) Live chess tournament Puzzlemaker Random Acts of Knowledge - Batavia Library Survivor programs - Space theme \| Other \| Creating game \| Dragon Island Treasure hunt-Library Trivia resources
Teen Advisory Groups/Boards (TABs/TAGs) All you need to know (RoseMary Honnold) Book buying trip Tracey Firestone) Fundraisers with board games (To fund teen programs or help library budget) Guidelines for starting teen newsletter (RoseMary Honnold) Honoring graduating TAB members (from ya-yaac) Icebreaker activities Games \| Break Ice \| Rosemary Honnold's ideas Leadership model for TABs Libraries currently running teen groups Moral dilemma questions (use as ice breaker) Naming TABs Operation Anime (Teens screen latest anime releases; library keeps them) Professional Collection-MHLS Starting & running TABs (Lisa Matte) Team building ideas Texas State Library YA Manual (From No Limits Read! Young Adult Reading Club and Programming Manual by Lisa Youngblood. Pub.,Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 2002. "Chapter IV. Programs for Young Adults. http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/yareadingclub/part4.html) YALSA Tips \|YALSA Wiki	Mystery & Readers Theater Programs The BookWorm (Play for teens to perform for young children)(Dymphna Harrigan & Teen Council, Danbury Library) Games without Murders How to Host a Teen Mystery game Readers theater scripts Aaron Shepard \| Lisa Blau \| Rick Swallow Scripts from kits at MHLS Elementary: Crime Caper and Who's a Fraidy Kat? Teen: (Death Gets A Red Card and Who's a 'Fraidy Kat? Scripts to purchase - Highsmith \| Merri Mysteries) Scripts from libraries Who Killed Ima Gudeater - Schaumburg Library Acting Can Be Murder - Hays Library (To learn who murderer is in Hays play, contact Margaret) Plano, TX scripts Texas State Library - Program #1 \| Program #2 Writing mysteries w/teens
Forms E-mail sign-up forms MHLS Coshocton Library (RoseMary Honnold) Program Record Suggestion box slip (RoseMary Honnold) TAB Application template (In Word) Teen group school letter (Customize as needed) Teen volunteers Dewey classification guide (for volunteer shelvers) Dewey quiz (for volunteer shelvers) Teen volunteer form VOYA Teen Pop Culture Quiz	Marketing to Teens Blogging \| Safety issues - Blog Safety \| Safe Kids \| Safe Teens E-mail sign-up form General suggestions \| More Health Information Project (HIP) Invisible reader's advisory Newsletters for teens Pop Culture (Keeping up with teens) Pop Culture Blog (by & for librarians) Pop Matters Teen slang YALSA Pop culture quizzes Public Service Announcements by teens (Barrie Public Library, Canada) Teen Marketing Profile Teen volunteer ideas

General Program Resources ALA Suggestions Booktalking Community service programs Craft sites for teens (RoseMary Honnold) Dewey List of Programs Connecting YAs and Libraries by P. Jones et al., pp. 242-250 EZ Library Program database - Middle School \| Teens Free program ideas Passive teen programs (From No Limits Read! Young Adult Reading Club and Programming Manual by Lisa Youngblood. Pub.,Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 2002. "Chapter IV. Programs for Young Adults. http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/yareadingclub/part4.html) Program ideas (See YA Around by RoseMary Honnold) Program Record (More) Program ideas Texas State Library	Specific Program Ideas American Idol Judging Rubric - Singing Judging Rubric - Dance (Elizabeth Saxton, Cleveland Library) Rules & Regulations (Paula Anderson, Warwick, RI Library) Anime clubs Article from VOYA How to start club Operation Anime (Teens screen latest titles; library gets free copy.) Auctions Banned Books Week ALA site Battle of the Books (Tweens in MHLS program) Book Crossing (Sharing books throughout communities) Books to Movies Discussions Fresno Library Internet Movie Database Mid-Continent Library Skokie Library TeenReads Coffee Can of Probability CSI Programs - EZ Library Programs \| Other ideas Dungeons and Dragons Explanatory letter (to convince administration/Boards) How to Host D&D program Program description Official D&D website (rules, how to) Toolkit for After-School Adventures with D & D *FREE* Film Contests & Book-to-Movie Programs Coshocton Library Duxbury Free Library EZ Library Program Database Film editing software - Download MS MovieMaker (free) or Adobe Premiere Element ($100) Kathleen Odean's links Pink Panther Movie Night (CA Library, Jennifer Lawson) Programming ideas from Movie Licensing USA Reel Teens Film Contest/Festival (Woodstock & Hunter) Shout About Movies games Gaming Programs (Board AND video) Bloomington Public Library DDR-Borrow pad from MHLS \| What you need to know Dungeons and Dragons programs Fundraisers with board games Ideas from YA -YAAC It CAN Be Fun & Games @ Your Library Workshop [Sue Scott's handout ] [MHLS handout] [Workshop report] Lib Success wiki postings (See Past Events section for Guitar Hero entries) Library gaming blog Making your own video games Monopoly Tournaments \| Free Hasbro games National Game Week (Nov. 18-24) Request February 2005 issue of VOYA from Youth Services Reviews \| More reviews \| And more Skills mastered when gaming (use to make case for gaming equipment/programming in libraries) Graphic novels/cartooning Books in MHLS Professional Collection EZ Library Program database cartoon ideas Graphic novelist to do workshops - Barbara Slate Jim Sparks @ 845.628.8221 - drawing, photography, cartooning, art history presentations; Putnam librarians have hired him to do grades 6-12 – drawing, cartooning, photography Knitting Ideas Internet Safety Lawn chess (Build set w/Home Depot directions) Locked in the Library Music Programs Lyrics to latest songs Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lesson plans (ties music & literature) (See Six degrees of.., by Jana Fine, YALS Spr. '04, ProQuest) Shout About Music game Teen Programs with Music Tie-ins National Library Week ideas April 15-21, 2007 Scavenger Hunts - Library \| \|National Treasure Hunt Spanish programs (Texas State Library) Speed stacking tournaments Teen Poetry Week Teen Read Week (TRW)-Oct. 14-20, 2007 Writing - Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Places teens can publish work Creating zines
Older Teen Programs Booktalking Adult books for teens Teens Tips College Night Getting first job Program ideas Job handout Moral dilemma questions Prom prep Improv games Collection of ideas Improv Encyclopedia Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Games/Contests Contests in the library Fear Factor Gaming Icebreaker Games \| More group games (RoseMary Honnold) Human Bingo (Emily Fleischer, Brownsburg, IN Library) Live chess tournament Puzzlemaker Random Acts of Knowledge - Batavia Library Survivor programs - Space theme \| Other \| Creating game \| Dragon Island Treasure hunt-Library Trivia resources
Teen Advisory Groups/Boards (TABs/TAGs) All you need to know (RoseMary Honnold) Book buying trip Tracey Firestone) Fundraisers with board games (To fund teen programs or help library budget) Guidelines for starting teen newsletter (RoseMary Honnold) Honoring graduating TAB members (from ya-yaac) Icebreaker activities Games \| Break Ice \| Rosemary Honnold's ideas Leadership model for TABs Libraries currently running teen groups Moral dilemma questions (use as ice breaker) Naming TABs Operation Anime (Teens screen latest anime releases; library keeps them) Professional Collection-MHLS Starting & running TABs (Lisa Matte) Team building ideas Texas State Library YA Manual (From No Limits Read! Young Adult Reading Club and Programming Manual by Lisa Youngblood. Pub.,Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 2002. "Chapter IV. Programs for Young Adults. http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/yareadingclub/part4.html) YALSA Tips \|YALSA Wiki	Mystery & Readers Theater Programs The BookWorm (Play for teens to perform for young children)(Dymphna Harrigan & Teen Council, Danbury Library) Games without Murders How to Host a Teen Mystery game Readers theater scripts Aaron Shepard \| Lisa Blau \| Rick Swallow Scripts from kits at MHLS Elementary: Crime Caper and Who's a Fraidy Kat? Teen: (Death Gets A Red Card and Who's a 'Fraidy Kat? Scripts to purchase - Highsmith \| Merri Mysteries) Scripts from libraries Who Killed Ima Gudeater - Schaumburg Library Acting Can Be Murder - Hays Library (To learn who murderer is in Hays play, contact Margaret) Plano, TX scripts Texas State Library - Program #1 \| Program #2 Writing mysteries w/teens
Forms E-mail sign-up forms MHLS Coshocton Library (RoseMary Honnold) Program Record Suggestion box slip (RoseMary Honnold) TAB Application template (In Word) Teen group school letter (Customize as needed) Teen volunteers Dewey classification guide (for volunteer shelvers) Dewey quiz (for volunteer shelvers) Teen volunteer form VOYA Teen Pop Culture Quiz	Marketing to Teens Blogging \| Safety issues - Blog Safety \| Safe Kids \| Safe Teens E-mail sign-up form General suggestions \| More Health Information Project (HIP) Invisible reader's advisory Newsletters for teens Pop Culture (Keeping up with teens) Pop Culture Blog (by & for librarians) Pop Matters Teen slang YALSA Pop culture quizzes Public Service Announcements by teens (Barrie Public Library, Canada) Teen Marketing Profile Teen volunteer ideas