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Tuesday, March 29 at 7pm, join other teens to brainstorm questions to ask National Book Award nominee Sara Zarr for her virtual visit to Mercer Island Library. Meet up at the library and use a laptop computer or join in from home. The chat address will be posted tomorrow morning on the OTRs blog.

Sara will visit the library via Skype on Tuesday, April 12 at 7pm. She will field questions about reading, writing, publishing, and perhaps whatever else we come up with. Find out more about Sara's virtual visit at www.kcls.org.

Sara Zarr is the acclaimed author of three novels for young adults: Story of a Girl (National Book Award Finalist), Sweethearts (Cybil Award Finalist), and Once Was Lost (Kirkus Best Books of 2009).

This author visit brought to you by Online Teen Readers and Mercer Island Teen Advisory Board and sponsored by the Friends of Mercer Island Library.

As you now know the summer book for OTR's is Marcelo In The Real World.  We look forward to your wonderful reviews and want to know if you loved the book as much as we did!  You might also win prizes for reading this month's pick.  How you ask? Simply participate in KCLS' summer reading programs!    

Read 3 Get 1 Free!  Pick up the forms at your local library. Read three books. Write three reviews. Turn in the form. Get a free book!  We do this all year long, but during the summer as you turn in your forms you are entered into both a monthly drawing for $25 Gift Cards to Target in June, Barnes and Noble in July and Zumiez in August and also for the end of the summer laptop drawing! So, start the summer off right by reading Marcelo In The Real World  AND take part in R3Get1Free!!

Read-Flip-Win! Do you like to make movies, or see your beautiful face on the "big" screen? If the answer is YES then enter RFW!  Simply create a video book trailer (think movie trailer) OR a video book review (think movie critic) and enter to win an HD Mino Flip video camera!  Check out the contest page for more information!  Check out this Video Book Review of Marcelo In The Real World! 

Now that you know all about the wild and crazy stuff happening at the library this summer join in to win absolutely fantastic prizes! 

 For more information feel free to contact the two Jennifers - Jennifer Fleck jafleck@kcls.org or Jennifer Wooten jwooten@kcls.org  206-236-3537

Do you love to read, but never seem to have the time or the motivation? Would you like to read more, but you can't think of a "good" book? Have you thought about joining a book group, only to find you just can't fit a monthly meeting into your schedule?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Online Teen Readers is the place for you! OTRs (ott-ers) are teens reading and talking about books on their own schedule online.

BOOKS lets you know the featured book of the month with extra info about the story, the author, and other interesting tidbits.

CHATTER lets you know what other teens have to say about what they're reading, whether it's the featured book or one they discovered on their own.

EVENTS lets you know about fun get-togethers OTRs will be hosting. Look for author visits, pre-pub parties (look at books before they've even hit the book market), or chats.

Special thanks to artist extraordinairre, Martina, for the terrific OTRs logo. Thanks also to Mercer Island Library's Pre-Pub Club for the unofficial "reading" logo and Teen Advisory Board for program development.