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Teen Read Week at the Bridgeport Public Library!

Bridgeport, WV – The Bridgeport Public Library is participating in the national movement to call attention to teen literacy. All are invited to encourage teens to read in greater quantities and material of higher qualities. Statistics and more information regarding the recent and continued decline in teen reading activity and levels will be posted at the Library. The Library’s weekly meeting of its teen organization will be celebrating Teen Read Week with a discussion of Orson Scott Card’s The Enders’ Game on Monday, October 14th at 6:00pm.

Bridgeport Public Library teen programming welcomes any interested teenager between the ages of thirteen and nineteen. For more information on this event or any teen programming at the Library, please contact Sarah Nora at 304-842-8248. About Teen Read Week: Seek the Unknown, October 13-19, 2013 Teen Read Week is held each year during the third week of October. In 2013, it will be celebrated Oct. 13-19.Teen Read Week is a national literacy initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association. It's aimed at teens, their parents, librarians, educators, booksellers and other concerned adults. Teen Read Week's theme is Read For The Fun Of It. Each year, YALSA offers a new sub-theme to serve as a basis for developing programs in schools, public libraries, and bookstores. The 2013 sub-theme is Seek the Unknown @ your library, which encourages teens to read for the fun of it. The event offers librarians and educators a chance to encourage teens to read for pleasure and to visit their libraries for free reading materials. If you have a recommendation for a theme for 2014, please send it to yalsa@ala.org. Teen Read Week 2013 will be celebrated at thousands of public and school libraries, classrooms, and bookstores across the country. Although teens realize the importance of reading, they have a huge menu of activities to choose from when deciding how to spend their free time, and reading gets lost in the shuffle. Reading skills get rusty when they are not used. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reports that over the last 20 years there have been only modest gains in reading achievement. And although there are many active literacy campaigns, very few efforts focus on teenagers. Source: http://teenreadweek.ning.com/page/faq