Congratulations to Maggie Harlin, Angelo Aristide, and Matt Reinhart, the winners of our "Like Us and Follow Us" Teen Read Week contest. They each won a giftcard to GameStop, courtesy of the Friends of the Library.

During TEEN READ WEEK: Oct. 12 through Oct. 18, 2014, every teen who “LIKES” the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library’s Teenspace page on Facebook, or “FOLLOWS” our SMFPL Teenspace Tumblr, or “FOLLOWS” our SMFPLTeens Instagram feed, will be entered into a prize drawing! We’re giving away 3 $10.00 giftcards to GAMESTOP!

It's time to make your voice heard, teen readers of Stow and Munroe Falls! Vote today for your favorite books nominated for the Buckeye Teen Book Award. Nominees this year include The Fault In Our Stars, Allegiant, and Clockwork Princess. Vote online or stop in the library to vote at our Buckeye Voting Kiosk in the Teen Area. Vote today, get your friends to vote, and tell the authors you love their books! Voting ends Nov. 10.

We've started an Instagram feed for photos of teen programs and info about upcoming teen happenings at the library. Check us out and follow us! "smfplteens" on Instagram.

The winning entries in our annual Amateur Photography Contest for adults and teens may be viewed in this online gallery.

Congratulations to Erica DeRosa for winning the $75 VISA giftcard Teen Summer Reading Grand Prize, and to Justin Dyer for winning the $25 giftcard for the Summer Photo Challenge. Prizes were provided by the Friends of the Library. We had 229 teens participate in the summer reading program, earning nearly 1,000 scratchoff tickets and reading 2,919 books this summer! Way to go everyone!

Well, we didn't manage to win this year's Battle of the Books; that honor went to the Akron-Summit COunty Public Library in their first appearance in a Battle. But our team performed very well! Thanks to all who participated! Here is some video of the battle, which was held at the Cuyahoga Falls Library this year. Sorry that the audio is a little quiet at times; we did not have microphones for our players. Next year, we'll try again to win the Battle!

Teens entering grades 7-12 can enter the TEEN SUMMER READING PROGRAM "Spark a Reaction" between June 9 and August 1. WIN PRIZES for reading books, magazines, graphic novels, or listening to audiobooks. Prizes include candy bars, free books, and giftcards for Books-A-Million, iTunes, GameStop and Chipotle! One lucky teen reader will win the GRAND PRIZE of a $75.00 VISA gift card!

Celebrate all things chocolate at the Chocolate Fest on February 25 at 7pm! Teens in grades 7 to 12 will get to play Chocolate Jeopardy and Oreo Stacking and other chocolate games; win chocolate prizes; taste-test different chocolate from around the world; decorate chocolate cupcakes; and more! Bring your sweet tooth!

Crazy for doowop? Are you a fan of acapella rock? You won't want to miss this live performance at 7pm Tues.  Nov. 5 by Millennium Forte, a 12 member local teen acapella group formed by Jon Ilcisko and Eli Forbes. Enjoy a fun evening of pop songs of the decades, from The Beach Boys to Bruno Mars.