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  1. New at El Toro - "The Chosen One" by Carol Lynch Williams, "The Twilight Prisoner" by Katherine Marsh, and "Reality Check" by Peter Abrahams
  2. Come in and sign up for our great Summer Reading program starting monday!
  3. It's not too late to volunteer for Summer Reading! Get your community service hours done this summer at El Toro, come in for an application
  4. New fiction at El Toro: "Magic and Misery" by Peter Marino, "Funny How Things Change" by Melissa Wyatt, and "Necropolis" by Anthony Horowitz
  5. Calling all teens! Applications are now available to volunteer for the Summer Reading program! Pick one up at the Info Desk.
  6. The Twilight dvd is now available at OCPL! Get on the list to check out a copy - call or come by the Info Desk or go to www.ocpl.org
  7. You can do research from home using our online databases! Check them out at http://tinyurl.com/ctg354
  8. Just in - "The War at Ellsmere" - a new graphic novel for girls, about clique wars at a posh boarding school. Look in the teen section!
  9. Literary Orange is this Saturday 4/4 in the Student Center at UCI! Here is the link for more information: http://www.literaryorange.org/
  10. New at the library for lovers of vampire fiction - "Eternal" by Cynthia Leitich Smith, a companion to her earlier book "Tantalize"
  11. Take the Teens and Tech Survey at http://tinyurl.com/d5uaj5 - let us know how you like to use technology at the library - open until 4/1
  12. Mark your calendars for April 7 - free class on smart money management, just for teens! Ages 13-18 only. 4-6 pm at the El Toro Library!
  13. One week left to turn in your entries for the 2009 Teen Poetry and Art Contest... Winners will be compiled into a book, Voices in Verse!
  14. Did you know you can play online games at the library? Just bring in some headphones! Come by for Teen Tech Week, March 8 - March 14.
  15. Recommended reading - "After Tupac & D Foster" by Jacqueline Woodson - about three friends who share a love for the lyrics of Tupac Shakur
  16. Check the OCPL website for more on the Poetry & Art contest including the online submission form for poems and the rules for submitting art
  17. Get creative for the Teen Poetry and Art Contest! Submissions are due March 14. Winners will be published! Ages 12-18. More info coming.
  18. If you like manga, come check out the El Toro Library's Graphic Novel section - it's right behind the Info Desk with benches for reading.
  19. OCPL now has iPod compatible e-audiobooks to download, including F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
  20. Save the date for our Reader's Rally "Open House" on Feb. 5, a day of fun, with Abbit the Average's comedy show at 7pm - all are welcome!