Teen Services
At Stillwater Public Library, teens are considered to be any young person in grades 6-12.
Programs
Anime Club
Any teen interested in anime, manga, and graphic novels is invited to join the Anime Club. Anime Club meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month from 4:00-5:30 pm. View anime movies, share your drawings, and discuss your favorite anime and graphic novels.
Reading
The Young Adult collection at Stillwater Public Library consists of fiction for both younger and older teens. There are books to appeal to a variety of interests-romance, mystery, humor, fantasy, sports, etc. Stillwater Public Library encourages reading books on the Oklahoma Sequoyah Intermediate and High School Masterlists, the Newbery, Printz, and other award winners by providing many of these books in our collecion.
Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award
With this award, Oklahoma honors the Native American leader Sequoyah, for his unique achievement in creating the Cherokee syllabary. More...
2012 High School Masterlist2012 Intermediate Masterlist
Other Award and Suggested Reading
John
Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal is awarded to the author of the most
distinguished contribution to American literature for children. (Although a
children's award, many of these books are YA.)
Michael
L. Printz Award
This award honors excellence in literature written for
young adults.
William C. Morris Award
The Morris Award honors a book
written for young adults by a first-time, previously unpublished author. The
first award will be given in 2009.
Margaret
A. Edwards Award
The Edwards Award honors an author and a specific
work for significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens.
Alex
Awards
The Alex Awards are given annually to ten books written for
adults that have special appeal to young adults.
Best Books for Young Adults
Through 2010, this list
compiles the current years best books with proven or potential appeal to
teens. Beginning 2011, this list evolved into the Best Fiction for Young Adults
list.
Teens'
Top Ten
This list allows teens to choose their ten favorite books from a
list of current titles nominated by teen book groups. Nominations are listed in
April. Teens vote for their favorite books in August and September. The
votes are tallied and YALSA names the Teens' Top Ten during Teen Read Week.
This list compiles the best fiction written for teens in the previous sixteen months. The first list will be published in January 2011.
Outstanding Books for the College Bound
Updated every five
years, this comprehensive list provides reading recommendations to students who
plan to continue their education beyond high school. The most recent list was
released in 2009.
