Salina High School South
tripodium Oct. 30, 2014 lVolume 43 l Issue 2 l Salina, Kan. 67401 l @SHSTripodium
Students celebrate Teen Read Week in library By Tiffany Bowers and Cassidy Sweet For the first time in years, Teen Read Week made its debut in Salina High School South. This event, a national holiday, took place Oct. 12 through 18. Teen Read Week is a product of the Young Adult Library Service Association. It began in 1998 and is held every year during the third week of October. YALSA created this holiday in order to “encourage teens to be regular readers and library users.” The library decided to celebrate this year with multiple festivities that students were encouraged to participate in throughout the week. One of the festivities included a Teen Night at the library, which took place on Thursday Oct. 16 from 6-9 p.m. Students had the opportunity to sign up for a night of pizza, pop, and movie-watching. These movies, however, were not just ordinary movies. They were movies based on books
that were in the library. The movies chosen were “Let Me In” inspired by the novel “Let the Right One In”. The other movie students had the option of watching was “The Fault in Our Stars” based off the book by John Green. Other activities students could participate in throughout the week included a Library Trivia Contest, Spine Label Poetry Contest, Bookmark Creating Contest and a Cake Decorating Contest that was exclusively offered to the library student aides. The winners of these contests received $10 gift cards to Books-A-Million. The Library Trivia Contest included questions such as “What is Mrs. Gugler’s favorite book?” and “What was the first American novel to sell one million copies?” Winners of this contest include Mikayla Talbott (’17), Donald Lorentson (’18) and Taylor McIntire (’17). The Spine Label Poetry Contest was one of which students had to create a poem using only
spines of multiple books. Winners of this contest were Cayson Brown (’15) and Avery Thomas (’16). The Bookmark Creating Contest consisted of students designing different bookmarks to promote reading. Winners of this contest were Denise Nunemaker (’15) and Lily Escobedo (’15). The final activity provided was only for the student aides in the library. Aides got to decorate cakes, made by Librarian Roz Gugler, to represent a book cover or a specific genre. Each aide voted for the best cakes overall and the winners were Michala Cliffton (’16) with the Curious George cake, Rachael Warhurst (’15) with The Notebook inspired cake, Tiffany Miller (’15) with the Traitor cake and Biancia Mount (’15) with the Flowers in the Attic cake. “I hope to do the same kind of things again in April for National Library Week. I had a lot of fun, it was a good time,” Gugler said.
Top: Students at Teen Night snack on pizza while conversing before the movies. Most students chose to watch the horror film, “Let Me In”. Below: Students participate in the library trivia challenge. photos by tiffany bowers
Teen Read Week winners’ work displayed in library