The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library has launched a “Digital Branch” that includes a complete website redesign. This blog, Graffiti, will be archived but not updated during the transition to the new website. You can find much of the content from this blog on the new website under the heading Teens.
Please visit our new website at www.tscpl.org and tell us what you think!
Repossessed by A. M. Jenkins
Kiriel needs a vacation from being a demon--actually he prefers the term "fallen angel." He's tired of inflicting guilt on the souls sent to Hell. So Kiriel decides to inhabit the body of a teenage boy, Shaun, right before the moment of his untimely death. Kiriel has a list of things he wants to experience before he's caught and cast out. Some are physical experiences and some are emotional. Additionally, once he's human, Kiriel discovers that he wants to his mark on the world, especially the people in Shaun's life.
The human experience turns out to be a lot more complex than Kiriel imagined. As a reader, looking at life through Kiriel's eyes is humorous but also thought-provoking. Repossessed will make you re-evaluate the ways you see ordinary things.
The Anime Club at the library is having a cosplay! This is your chance to dress up as your favorite anime/manga character and compete for awesome prizes. Do you know your way around the internet? Are you a techie nerd or a techie turd? Prove your worth by completing this Internet Scavenger hunt! Winners will receive fun Teen Tech week prizes.
Send an e-mail to ya@tscpl.org with the answers and links to the web pages that you got the information from.
Frank Warren, the author of the PostSecret books, will be giving a presentation tonight in Lawrence. PostSecret is an on-going community art project that is featured on a website and in four books. People anonymously write a secret on a homemade postcard and send it to Frank Warren. Many of the postcards are beautiful and heartbreaking, but a lot are also silly and random.
Frank Warren will be speaking at the KU campus Union Ballroom at 7:00 pm. Click here for more information and call the Student Union box office at 785-864-SHOW to purchase tickets. If you can't attend his presentation, you can still enjoy the PostSecret event by visiting a gallery of postcards created by KU students in the Kansas Union Gallery, checking out one of the library's PostSecret books, or looking at the PostSecret website.
We are having a photography contest in honor of Teen Tech Week! The theme is Teens and Technology, so the entries should generally follow this subject. Photoshop and other editing programs are allowed, so be creative!
You can email your entry as an attachment to ya@tscpl.org, or bring in a hard copy to the YS desk in the public library. This contest is only open to teens in the Topeka/ Shawnee County area.