Festivals and Fairs Continued:

Strawberry Festival Date: June 5 Parish Fairgrounds, West Babylon, NY Kings Park Day Town Fair Date: June 18 Main St and Municipal parking lot, Kings Park, NY Northport Fireman’s Fair Date: July 11 - 6 Steers Ave, Northport, NY 5th Annual Music Festival Date: July 15 - 17 Shorefront Park Patchogue, NY East Northport Fireman’s Fair Date: August 3 - 6 East Northport, NY Polish Town Fair 2011: Street Fair and Polka Festival Date: August 20 - 21 Riverhead, NY 20th Annual Seafood Festival & Craft Fair Date: August 27 - 28 Maritime Museum, West Sayville, NY

The Northport-East Northport Public Library’s Teen Guide to an Awesome Summer 2011

books*games*music*activities*movies

16 AND MORE! http://www.nenpl.org/teens NENPL Teen Guide to an Awesome Summer 3 Camping Sites and Parks Continued: Hamptons to Montauk/Southfork: NENPL Teen Reading Club 2011 3 Cedar Point County Park - East Montauk/Southfork Great Summer Reads 4-7 Cupsogue Beach County Park - Westhampton Bored? Do Something!: Jog Your Creative Output 8 Hither Hills State Park - Montauk Meschutt Beach County Park Campground - Hampton Bays Beyond Lemonade: How to Make Money This Summer 8-9 Sears Bellows County Park Campground - Hampton Bays Chill Out and Wild Out: Great Summer Music 9 Shinnecock East County Park - Southampton Great Movies and Cold A/C: Summer Blockbusters 10 North Shore: Blydenburgh County Park Campground - Smithtown Go Out and Explore: Outdoor Fun For All 10 Callahan’s Beach - Fort Salonga Local Beaches 11 Short Beach - Smithtown Surf Spots 11 Wildwood State Park Campground - Wading River South Shore: Skate Parks 11 Eugene Nickerson Beach Park Campground - Lido Beach Water Parks 12 Heckscher State Park Campground - East Islip Geocaching 12 Summer Concerts 12 Summer Festivals YDA Summer Outings 13 Tasty stall food, interesting exhibits, music performances and rides galore. Long Island is bursting with summer fairs this year. If you Game On! Video Games 13 and your friends are looking for an alternative to the movies and Lend A Helping Hand: Volunteer Opportunities 14 bowling, a summer fair is a great way to spend an evening. Just Sleep Under The Stars: Camping and Hiking 14-15 watch your snack intake before you ride the Gravitron! For more information on summer festivals visit Life On Long Island at: Summer Festivals 15-16 www.lifeonlongisland.com/

2 15 Lend a helping hand: School’s out! Volunteer Opportunities The weather is hot and you have a lot of free time on your hands. The summer is a great time to pursue volunteer opportunities. To help you plan an unforgettable summer vacation, the Northport– East Volunteering provides community support, teaches valuable skills Northport Public Library Teen Services Department has put together the and looks great on your transcript and resume. Check out our Teen Guide to an Awesome Summer. Inside you’ll find suggestions for the online guide to local volunteer organizations and opportunities at best in books, games, music and movies and great tips to help you dis- the Northport – East Northport Public Library Teen page for local cover cool new activities, places and hobbies. In addition, we have listed volunteer opportunities at: local attractions and summer events to help you make this the greatest www.nenpl.org/teens/help/volunteerresources.php summer yet!

For more info about Teen Services at NENPL visit Sleep Under the stars: www.nenpl.org/teens/ Camping and Hiking Gather your friends, some supplies and pitch a tent! Long Island and You Are Here @ Your Library! State is full of great parks for camping, hiking and enjoy- Join the fun this summer and participate in the Northport – East ing the great outdoors. Visit the NYS parks department online for Northport Teen Summer Reading Club 2011. From June 27- area camping sites and more information. August 11, students entering grades 6-12 are invited to come to www.nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/ the library and read for prizes as well as take part in special

programs offered throughout the summer. Camping Sites and Parks: Central Suffolk: Earn one Book Buck for every age-appropriate book that you read. Cathedral Pines County Park - Middle Island Obtain your “Read and Rate Forms” in the Teen Centers or online at Smith Point County Park - Shirley www.nenpl.org/teens. Your Book Books will be held at the Reference Southaven County Park Campground - Brookhaven Desk. These will be redeemable for cool prizes such as gift certificates,

books, posters and collectibles.

For more info about our summer programs visit www.nenpl.org/teens

14 3 Great Summer Reads! YDA Summer Outings There is nothing better than soaking up some summer rays and East Northport’s youth agency YDA sponsors super fun summer reading a great book. The following books are a collection of this field trips to amusement parks, arcades, baseball games and year’s must-read titles and not to be missed classics. Whether you more. Teens in grades 6-12 are welcome to sign up, but space is dig zombies and high speed action or total drama and mythological limited. Below is a sample of some of their planned field trips. For creatures, you will find your new favorite book here. more information and to register, please contact them at 631-261-7901 and visit them online at: www.ydaonline.org Looking For Love in All the Right and Wrong Places Stories of Love, Friendship and Everything In Between YDA Field Trips: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins Hershey Park- July 12th Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan Dave & Buster’s- July 14th Close to Famous by Joan Bauer Gamin’ Ride: Video Game Truck- July 21st Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan Lazerland- July 26th Seth Baumgartner's Love Manifesto by Eric Luper Monster Mini Golf- July 28th Matched by Ally Condie Kayaking- August 3rd The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott Adventureland- August 4th Across the Universe by Beth Revis Splish Splash- August 9th Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles LI Ducks Game- August 10th Beatle Meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams Paintball- August 11th Tanger Outlets- August 24th Werewolves, Zombies and Vampires of London: Ghoulishly Good Paranormal Stories Radiance by Alyson Noël Game On! Video Games The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff Sometimes the sun just refuses to shine, and that’s a perfect time Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl to dust off your favorite game console. Here are our favorites: The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey The Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yancey Great Games White Cat by Holly Black Fable III (Xbox 360. PC) Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (DS) Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry Little Big Planet 2 (PS3) Green Witch by Alice Hoffman Lost in Shadow (Wii) Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King Mario Sports Mix (Wii) Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (PS3, Xbox 360) MLB 2K11 (PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360) Pokémon Black & White (DS) Portal 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360, PSP, DS) LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360) Test Drive Unlimited 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)

4 13 Splish Splash Waterpark: Never Can Say Goodbye: Must Read Social Dramas With over 20 slides and attractions, Splish Splash has 96 exciting Fall For Anything by Courtney Summers acres of total fun for the whole family. Everywhere you turn, you’ll Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones discover another one-of-a-kind water attraction. Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers 2549 Middle Country Road, Riverhead, NY 11901 (631) 727-3600 By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters Visit online at: www.splishsplashlongisland.com Hate List by Jennifer Brown The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson Geocaching: Treasure hunting with a GPS Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout Sorta Like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS devices. The Kick by Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman basic idea is to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, outdoors The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork and then share your experiences online. Find local hidden caches online at: www.geocaching.com/ Far Out Man! The Best in Sci-Fi and Fantasy Incarceron by Catherine Fisher Summer Concerts: The Alchemyst by Michael Scott The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima There’s no better time than the summer to enjoy an outdoor concert. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare Many area concerts also have free admission. Check out the listings The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman below to find information about your favorite bands and musicians. Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore Art, Music and Poetry in the Park- Northport Village Park The Maze Runner by James Dashner www.villageofnorthport.com/events.htm The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson Jones Beach Summer Concert Series Plain Kate by Erin Bow www.jonesbeach.com

Central Park NYC Summer Stage Free Concerts: www.summerstage.org Boom! Pow! Stories of Adventure and Survival WRXP Summer Rock + Indie concert listings: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi www.1019rxp.com/concerts/listings.aspx As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins Hot 97 Hip Hop + R&B concert listings: Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick www.hot97.com/concerts/ The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade 106.1 WBLI Pop + Dance concert listings: The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith www.wbli.com/s/concerts/ The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness The Compound by S.A. Bodeen Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson Trapped by Michael Northrop Lockdown: Escape from Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith

12 5 Schools Out- Don’t Turn Off Your Brain: Local Beaches: Asharoken Beach Stories to Make You Think Nothing by Janne Teller Crabmeadow Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins Hobart Beach Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel Sunken Meadow Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver Jones Beach (Ocean Beach) The Unidentified by Rae Mariz Robert Moses (Ocean Beach) The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci Surf Spots: Lost For Words by Alice Kuipers There are a lot of great places for surfers of all skill levels to find Borderline by Allan Stratton great waves on Long Island. The three most local spots are- Robert The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera Moses, Gilgo Beach and Hemlocks. For more information on local surf spots and wave/tide conditions visit: The Road Less Traveled: http://wannasurf.com/spot/North_America/USA/North_East/ Road Trips, Adventures and Extraordinary Journeys Long_Island_NY/ Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson Skate Parks: The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson The Town of Huntington has opened its' first Skate Park, located in What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen Greenlawn Park on the corner of Broadway and Cuba Hill Road. The Paper Towns by John Green Park, which is 9,200 square feet, has grind boxes, wedges, rails, Girl at Sea by Maureen Johnson spines, ramps, subboxes, quarter pipes, and half pipes ranging up to Stolen by Lucy Christopher eight feet in height. The Park is designed for beginners and Surf Mules by Greg Neri advanced rollerbladers, skateboarders, and BMX bikers. For more Vidalia in Paris by Sasha Watson information call the skate park at (631)757-0696 Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray

It’s Never Who You Think It Is: Stories of Mystery and Intrigue Death Cloud by Andrew Lane Three Black Swans by Caroline B. Cooney The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey Girl, Stolen by April Henry The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón You by Charles Benoit Accomplice by Eireann Corrigan The Deadly Sister by Eliot Schrefer The Magnolia League by Katie Crouch

6 11 Great Movies and Cold A/C: Have You Heard This One? Super Funny Books Dramarama by E. Lockhart

Summer Blockbusters Dunk by David Lubar When it’s brutally hot out there, there’s nothing better than a great The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler summer blockbuster and some A/C. For movie times and reviews Girl, 15, Charming but Insane by Sue Limb visit Fandango online at www.fandango.com. For the best in indie Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini films check out the Huntington Cinema Arts Centre at: Lawn Boy Returns by Gary Paulsen www.cinemaartscentre.org/collection King of the Lost and Found by John Lekich Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner 2011 Summer Blockbusters: It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides– May 20th Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock Kung Fu Panda 2– May 26th X-Men First Class– June 3rd Left-to-Right and Right-to-Left: Super 8– June 10th The Best in Graphic Novels and Manga Green Lantern– June 17th Meanwhile: Pick Any Path by Jason Shiga Mr. Popper's Penguins– June 17th Smile by Raina Telgemeier Cars 2– June 24th Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri Transformers: Dark of the Moon– July 1st Zeus: King of the Gods by George O'Connor Monte Carlo– July 1st The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis by Matt Groening and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II– July 15th Bill Morrison (ed.) Captain America: The First Avenger– July 22nd Brain Camp by Susan Kim The Smurfs– July 29th Not Simple by Natsume Ono Cowboys and Aliens– July 29th How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story by Tracy White Rise of the Planet of the Apes– August 5th Twin Spica by Kō Yaginuma Conan The Barbarian 3D– August 19th Library Wars by Hiro Arikawa and Yumi Kiiro Fright Night– August 19th

Real Deal: Great Nonfiction Books Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing by Ann Angel Go Out and Explore: The Dark Game: True Spy Stories by Paul Janeczko Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Outdoor Fun for All Debates by Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw There is so much to do on Long Island and in New York during the Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman summer months. From concerts and festivals to camping and skat- The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of ing, there really is an outdoor activity for just about everyone. Use Showman P. T. Barnum by Candace Fleming our listings to find some great ideas on how to see some new sights Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and grab some much needed sunshine. and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos

10 7 Bored? Get Out and Explore Your World! Websites: Books to Jog Your Creative Output www.snagajob.com/ Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs by Rozanne Gold Part-time and seasonal work job listings Creative Journal Writing: The Art and Heart of Reflection www.coolworks.com/teen-jobs/ by Stephanie Dowrick Outdoor and recreational jobs for teens It’s Your World--If You Don’t Like It, Change It: www.usajobs.gov/studentjobs/ Activism for Teenagers by Mikki Halpin Teen jobs and internships with the government True Green: 100 Everyday Ways You Can Contribute www.entrepreneur.com/tsu to a Healthier Planet by Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin Entrepreneur’s blog for young entrepreneurs Photojojo by Amit Gupta Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java by Inger McCabe Elliott and Brian Brake Chill Out and Wild Out! Alternacrafts by Jessica Vitkus Great Summer Music The Indie Band Survival Guide by Randy Chertkow Here’s a collection of great music to help you build the ultimate D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself by Ellen Lupton summer playlist. For more great music recommendations and videos The Best of Make by Mark Frauenfelder visit www.vevo.com/

Beyond Lemonade: Artist/ Album How to Make Money this Summer The Go! Team: Rolling Blackouts Summer is a great time to find a job and make some money. Check out Matisyahu: Live at Stubb's, Vol. 2 this collection of books and websites to help you find the perfect sum- Justin Bieber: Never Say Never – The Remixes mer job or help you launch your own dream business. Radiohead: The King of Limbs Noah and the Whale: Last Night on Earth Books: The Strokes: Angles Summer Jobs Worldwide by Susan Griffith TV on the Radio: Nine Types of Light The Handmade Marketplace: How to Sell Your Crafts by Kari Chapin Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues In Pursuit of My Success for Teens: Developing a College, Career, and Lady Gaga: Born This Way Money Plan for Life by Katherine Berntzen Owl City: All Things Bright and Beautiful Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business by Meg Ilasco What Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens by Carol Christen The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens: 8 Steps to Having More Money Than Your Parents Ever Dreamed Of by David Gardner, Tom Gardner, and Selena Maranjian ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income by Darren Rowse Back Door Guide to Short-Term Job Adventures by Michael Landes eBay 101 by Steve Weber Start It Up: The Complete Teen Business Guide to Turning Your Passions Into Pay by Kenrya Rankin

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