Young Adult

The Starkville Public Library Young Adult section celebrated an “Expressive” second Summer Reading Program.  Teens showed their stuff with the theme “Express Yourself @ Your Library” by accomplishing over 2,500 hours of reading this summer! The young adults also enjoyed a book club, a writing club, a books-to-movies club and two weekly events during the months of June and July.

 The teens also participated in a special “Hair-Razing Challenge.” YA Librarian Anna Ruhs set a goal of 500 books to be read by the young adults over the summer.  The reward: the young adults get to buzz off Anna’s hair! The teens more than accomplished this goal by reading over 600 books; on July 31^st they delightedly cut off Anna’s hair under the watchful supervision of hairdresser Misty Gregg.

 
Sarah buzzes off some of Anna's hair while
 hair stylist Misty Gregg supervises.

Anna and some of the books that were read to
earn her a new hair cut!

This autumn, the Young Adult Section plans to fall back into its two regular book clubs. “A Classic Confabulation,” the YA classics book club with a healthy dose of creative writing, will meet on Wednesdays at 4 pm beginning August 19^th; “Fantastes,” the YA fantasy/sci-fi book club, will meet Thursdays at 4 pm beginning August 20^th. Other fantastical programs on the horizon include Teen Read Week during the week of October 18^th-24^th, a pumpkin-carving contest, and a fall costume party!

 
Linda and Ashley "enjoy" eating cactus
during Fear Factor

Librarians Laura Foxworth, Kara Roberts, and
 Anna Ruhs eat some worms during Fear Factor

The YA Section at the Starkville Public Library would like to thank the many sponsors that made the YA Summer Reading Program so successful: The Friends of the Library, Chili’s Bar & Grill, Bulldog Lanes, The Starkville Martial Arts Academy, Aspen Bay Candles, Blockbuster,  Stromboli’s Italian Pizza, Wal-Mart, Dandy Doodlez, Applebees, McAlister’s Deli, The Book Mart, The Lodge, Zaxby’s, Oby’s, and Ruby Tuesdays. A special thank you goes out to Cecelia Brooks and Barnes & Noble for four fabulous programs, and to the library's many wonderful volunteers. 

Zach won "Best Mustache" during
the Milk Mustache Contest

The true meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex

In the chaotic turmoil that follows the Boov invasion of Earth, Gratuity Tucci finds herself driving her mother's car to Florida, where all of the humans are being relocated, with her cat  and a renegade extraterrestrial as her copilots.

The Leven Thumps Series, beginning with
 Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

When fate brings fourteen-year-old Leven
  and thirteen-year old Winter together,
they discover that for mankind to continue
 dreaming, the gateway between reality
 and dreams needs to be found and demolished.

Princess Ben: being a wholly truthful account of her various discoveries and misadventures, recounted to the best of her recollection by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

A girl is transformed, through instruction in life
 at court, determination, and magic, from sullen,
 pudgy, graceless Ben into Crown Princess
Benevolence, a fit ruler of the kingdom of Montagne
 as it faces war with neighboring Drachensbett.

The winners of the 2009 MONOPOLY Tournament:
Jordan in 3rd place, Niah in 1st place, and
Benjamin in 2nd place.


Teens jam after a concert at the library.

Teens learn Chinese Calligraphy at
 Barnes & Noble with artist Jing.

Niah paints like Michelangelo during the
"I Want to Be Like Mike" program.