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Visit your local Montgomery County public library and pick up a copy of the 2009-10 edition of Teen2Teen.  Also see it here on Teensite.

More than 11,000 teen voters chose Paper Towns as their favorite book in the 2009 Teens' Top Ten!   Do you agree with the vote and what do you think about the other titles in this list?

Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin/Dutton)

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)

City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)

Identical by Ellen Hopkins (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)

Wake by Lisa McMann (Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse)

Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin)

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Disney-Hyperion)

Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

So, which team are you on?  Let us know your thoughts.  Click on "Comments" below and write why you are on a particular team.  The person who makes the most convincing and well written points will win a poster from the New Moon movie.

Check out TAG news, reviews, plus interviews with authors Sarah Dessen, Kristin Cashore, and Michael Scott.

Excited about November 20?  How well do you remember Twilight?  Take our quiz.

Visit the remodeled teen areas at these libraries (and check out the larger, friendlier spaces and comfortable furniture):

Bethesda Library (photos courtesy of Patricia Buck)

Rockville Library (photos courtesy of Betty Lee)

Wheaton Library (photo courtesy of Beth Isaacson)

According to Soroptimist International, "forty-five percent of girls reported that they had encountered some form of physical aggression during the course of dating."         

Check out the booklist on dating violence.                                               

Go "beyond reality" at the Sleight of Hand Workshops presented by magician Mike Rose.  Learn tricks of the trade, including introductory sleight of hand, performance tips, and magic history tidbits.  Magic supplies will be provided.  The program is for ages 11 through 18 and space is limited to 35 at each of the five programs.  Call to register.

November 7, 11 a.m. at the Rockville Library, 240-777-0140.