TAGteam
How to JoinJoin TAGteam!
The Okotoks Public Library TAGteam is a group of teens ages 12 – 17 who help the Library choose materials for the Teen Zone, create Teen programs, help with fundraisers, discuss books, write book reviews, and much more!
This group has regular meetings once a month.
We would like you to attend as many of the meetings as possible, but we know that sometimes things come up that prevent you from attending. This is OK! Just attend as many meetings as you can.
If you would like to join the TAG, please ask for an application from the front desk or print off an application, fill it out and drop it off at the library.
If you have any questions, just ask for Whitney.
phone: 938-2220
e-mail: wpohl@okotokslibrary.ca
2010 TAG Meeting Dates:
TAG meetings will restart in September!
The 3rd Friday of the month, 4pm - 5pm
- September 17
- October 15
- November 19
- December 17
TAGazine
TAGazine is a way for the Okotoks Public Library to help showcase the art, writing and creativity of local teens.
We produce issues every 3 months. The Summer issue is currently available (for free!) at the library.
If you or someone you know is a local teen (ages 13-17) interested in contributing to our next issue of TAGazine, please contact Teen Services Librarian Whitney at the Okotoks Public Library in person or by e-mail.
TAGAzine submissions may be:
- short stories
- poems
- opinion essays
- book/music/movie reviews
- website recommendations or reviews
- original artwork (note that pencil drawings do not photocopy well)
Show Okotoks your creativity, participate in TAGazine!
TAG Recommended Reading
*These are some titles that members of the TAG recommend to other teens. For more information, or to put the item on hold, please click on the title.
*Please be advised that items from the adult collection contain adult content.
SAMURAI GIRL: THE BOOK OF THE SWORD
by Carrie Asai
Despite being the only survivor of a tragic plane crash at a mere six months of age, this young girl was lovingly raised by a Tokyo couple for the next nineteen years, but all that she has known her entire life is about to change.
by Holly Black
Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
by Shauna Cross
When sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, who is miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless," her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.
by Deborah Hautzig
As 14-year-old Leslie begins to shed the weight she feels makes her imperfect, she finds it increasingly difficult to reach out for the psychological help she knows she needs.
by Nancy Holder
Life seems rosy for the Pretty Little Devils, the most popular girls' clique in high school, until its members begin to experience threats and assaults.
by Martine Leavitt
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.
by Susan Vaught
Teenager Jersey Hatch must work through his extensive brain damage to figure out why he decided to shoot himself.
by Robin Wasserman
To save her from dying in a horrible accident, Lia's wealthy parents transplant her brain into a mechanical body.
by Thomas Wharton
When Will, a rebellious teen, stumbles from the present into the realm where stories come from, he learns he has a mission concerning the evil Malabron and, aided by some of the story folk, he faces a host of perils while seeking the gateless gate that will take him home.
by Chris Wooding
When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.