Read Beyond Reality @ your library®! October 18-24. Stop by any Genesee District Library during Teen Read Week to read beyond reality! Check out materials to change your world, take you somewhere unlike your world, or learn about other cultures. Stop by today and pick up a page turner that you can read or listen to, just for the fun of it!

Planning to attend a Michigan college?  Check out the Teens page.  Links to all two or four year, private and public schools are under Michigan Colleges and Universities.  Schools are listed with telephone numbers and clickable links to their websites.  Find research information on campus tours, college rankings, financial aid and more under the College page.  Still deciding on what to do? Search the Career page for job descriptions, projections and jobs.  Need more information?  Visit your local GDL branch.     

There’s still time for a few good books during summer 2009.  Check out Make Waves @Your Library, compiled by the Michigan Center for the Book and the Library of Michigan.   It features authors who write about Michigan.  One of the authors on the list worked as a page at the GDL Baker Park Library in Burton.  Guess who?  Watch for a review of his new book, The Tear Collector, in a future blog.

Journalist Angela Seyfried will present a program at the Flushing Area Library on August 11, 2009.  Discover what it’s really like to work for a newspaper.  The program begins at 10:00 AM.  For more information call the Flushing Area Library (810-659-9755) or the TeenFusion Librarian (810-653-2022).

To All 2009 Graduates!

 

Express Yourself at a GDL Teen Summer Reading event.  Summer programs feature you writing, drawing, sculpting and performing.  Start with the TeenFusion Talent Show.  Get your act together, make a video then upload your audition to our You Tube website.  Selected entries will perform live at preliminary events to be held at four GDL locations events on Thursdays in June and July.  Three performances from each event will enter the final competition on July 30, 2009 at the Baker Park Branch.  Watch for more details later this week.

Columnist Eileen Button, journalist Angela Seyfried and novelist Renee Hand share their experience as professional writers and challenge you to find your writing style.  Join me at Davison for Read/Write/Lunch, a writing workshop for aspiring teen authors.  Discover how to publish your music and lyrics with Shava Jamerson as she presents Selling Your Song.  Fling your artistic flare drawing or sculpting with Flint Institute of Art instructors when they hold class at seven GDL branches.   Save time for reading with Express Yourself @ the GDL Summer Reading Challenge.  Read for yourself and the branch team to win an end of summer party. Online registration begins June 15.    

Your new school is Awesome!!!  Thank you for taking time to speak with me during my visit on March 26.  Extra TeenFusion Newsletters are available in the school media center.  The GDL has two libraries in the City of Burton, Baker Park at 3410 S. Grand Traverse and Burton Memorial at 4012 E. Atherton Road.  Emails may be addressed to me at www.teenfusion2009@thegdl.org.  Go Tigers!!!

Each year the Youth Services Divsion of the Michigan Library Association requests our help in identifying the best books published each year.  To qualify, the book must have been published between January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008.  Add your favorite title to the 2009 Thumbs Up Award nomination list.  The list generated on the TeenFusion Blog will be forwarded to the selection committee.

Links have been restored to all school websites.  Please let me know if you experience any problems.

Each year the news periodical U. S. News and World Report profiles careers or jobs with great prospects and job satisfaction.  The BEST CAREERS page on their website provides background information on education, salaries and a brief work description.  Click here to view.  To research these and other possible careers in your future, check out the Occupational Outlook Handbook at the library or the U. S. Department of Labor website, http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm.