Do You Believe in Ghosts?

Looking for some spooky fun for Halloween? Check out these ghostly sites:

• America's Most Haunted Places Houses, battlefields, and other places said to be haunted by real ghosts




• Haunted Schools These schools give new meaning to the phrase "staying after school"




• Haunted Libraries Every library needs a ghost in the stacks!




• New Jersey Ghosts Tales of New Jersey ghosts brought to you by the guys at Weird New Jersey

And, finally, are ghosts real? Check out these sites to see what you believe:

• National Ghost Hunters Society




• The Nature of Ghosts

Happy Haunting!

Vote for the Garden State Teen Book Awards

The Garden State Teen Book Award is given each year by the New Jersey Library Association and is selected by teens just like you from throughout New Jersey. The award is given in three categories:

• Fiction, grades 6 - 8
• Fiction, grades 9 - 12
• Nonfiction, grades 6 - 12

Vote online for your favorite! You have until January 12. Winning titles will be announced in February.

2008 winning titles were:

• Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld
• Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Video Games at the Library!

Call your friends and plan to join us for video games at the library on the following dates:

• Wii on October 22 at the Northeast Branch, 6:30 - 8:00, for kids ages 11 - 16



• Playstation 3 on October 27 at the Franklin Branch, 6:00 - 7:30, for kids in 6th - 12th grades

Sign up is required for both programs. See you there!

Teen Read Week

October 12 - 18 is Teen Read Week! Celebrate by stopping by the library to check out an old favorite or try something new. Can't get enough vampire stories? Check out our "Get Bitten" list. School work cutting into your reading time? We have "Bite Sized Books" of short stories. Prefer to listen to a book? Try "Sound Bites." Do you like to cook? Don't miss "Take a Bite." We even have a list of "Books with Byte" for all you technology buffs. All this and more is available on our Books with Bite page.

New Teen Blog

Welcome to the Warren County Library Teen Blog! Here you can find out what's happening at the library and rant and rave about books, movies, video games, etc. Have you read a book or seen a movie that you loved? Or maybe one that you didn't like at all? Write a review to share with others. Send it to me at the email link in the profile on the sidebar and I will post it for you. Use only your first name or a made up screen name to be posted. And please, no inappropriate language or content. Hope to hear from you soon!