Hello Mind Benders:
I hope you are finding time to read some good mysteries this January!
Here is a link to this year’s Edgar Winning Mystery title Nominations. Have you read the Young Adult selections? Which do you think will win?
We have a short activity in this email. Recently in the news was a story about a young woman who at 23 realized she had been kidnapped from her biological parents at 3 weeks old. This story is a little like the fictional Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney, which is a great set of 4 books! Here’s our activity: Write what you think happened to her. Let’s see if in our growing group of 15 Mind Benders here any two of you think alike… Send it back to this our email: teenservices@stdl.org.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Responses to Activities 1 & 2
Activities 1 & 2 responses
Activity #1
From: Daniel C.
I like mysteries because the stories cause me to turn the pages faster on a book I would otherwise close and return to the library.
Activity #2
From: Daniel C.
In the story of the Charred Bench @ the Library, the teen who has gone missing after the library fire apparently had an outside link to how to stop this fire quicker. The teen is missing, yes, and everyone
wants to know where she is and if she is safe. As information gathers regarding the identity of the missing
teen, friends begin to talk and make statements to the Police and firefighters regarding their relationship
with this girl. Tension mounts. The missing teens’ parents are distraught with anguish as the long and
endearing search of the library and the surrounding area are searched. Will the rescue team, the volunteer community group and the local authorities find this missing girl? It’s time to look at the facts.
Volunteers are required to know the missing teens’ habits, friends and especially the clothes she is known
to have been wearing at the time of the incident regarding the library fire. Planning, searching, examining clues and overall community resource evaluations are utilized to discover the location of the missing teen.
From: Rebecca F.
I think that a teenager started a fire at the library. Then, she ran off and no one’s seen her since the fire. That’s what I think happened.
Activity #1
From: Daniel C.
I like mysteries because the stories cause me to turn the pages faster on a book I would otherwise close and return to the library.
Activity #2
From: Daniel C.
In the story of the Charred Bench @ the Library, the teen who has gone missing after the library fire apparently had an outside link to how to stop this fire quicker. The teen is missing, yes, and everyone
wants to know where she is and if she is safe. As information gathers regarding the identity of the missing
teen, friends begin to talk and make statements to the Police and firefighters regarding their relationship
with this girl. Tension mounts. The missing teens’ parents are distraught with anguish as the long and
endearing search of the library and the surrounding area are searched. Will the rescue team, the volunteer community group and the local authorities find this missing girl? It’s time to look at the facts.
Volunteers are required to know the missing teens’ habits, friends and especially the clothes she is known
to have been wearing at the time of the incident regarding the library fire. Planning, searching, examining clues and overall community resource evaluations are utilized to discover the location of the missing teen.
From: Rebecca F.
I think that a teenager started a fire at the library. Then, she ran off and no one’s seen her since the fire. That’s what I think happened.
Activities 1 & 2 from last year
Activities 1 & 2
We’ll start with two activities. Every other week or so you will get more. Participate as you can – up to you. Just enjoy yourself with this suspenseful genre.
Activity #1
Tell us who you are, why you like mysteries, what some favorites are and which fictional sleuth you would want to be or not want to be and why. For example, I would not want to be Nancy Drew because she is obsessed with her lipstick in my opinion and is always freshening it even after being kidnapped. I’d rather be one with psychic powers like Zack in Chris Grabenstein’s series (If you haven’t read them – get them, they are good!) I did want to be Trixie Belden because she had a fun group of friends and rode horses all the time.
Activity #2: What happened here? I made up this story, but tell us what you think happened next – a paragraph or two – We’ll send out the entries and we can keep adding.
Fire trucks fill the parking lot of the library, and water covers every surface. Three people wrapped in blankets are talking to police. A charred bench sits near a dark spot on the wall of the library. You stop to ask what happened, and someone said things got out of hand at the Banned Books Read Out event. You notice some police sifting through a pulpy mess on the ground. Then more police pull up and seal off the exits. They tell you and everyone else to wait to talk to them. They begin looking in everyone’s cars. You hear rumors that a teen has gone missing. Her ipod and backpack were partially burned in the fire, and no one has seen her.
We’ll start with two activities. Every other week or so you will get more. Participate as you can – up to you. Just enjoy yourself with this suspenseful genre.
Activity #1
Tell us who you are, why you like mysteries, what some favorites are and which fictional sleuth you would want to be or not want to be and why. For example, I would not want to be Nancy Drew because she is obsessed with her lipstick in my opinion and is always freshening it even after being kidnapped. I’d rather be one with psychic powers like Zack in Chris Grabenstein’s series (If you haven’t read them – get them, they are good!) I did want to be Trixie Belden because she had a fun group of friends and rode horses all the time.
Activity #2: What happened here? I made up this story, but tell us what you think happened next – a paragraph or two – We’ll send out the entries and we can keep adding.
Fire trucks fill the parking lot of the library, and water covers every surface. Three people wrapped in blankets are talking to police. A charred bench sits near a dark spot on the wall of the library. You stop to ask what happened, and someone said things got out of hand at the Banned Books Read Out event. You notice some police sifting through a pulpy mess on the ground. Then more police pull up and seal off the exits. They tell you and everyone else to wait to talk to them. They begin looking in everyone’s cars. You hear rumors that a teen has gone missing. Her ipod and backpack were partially burned in the fire, and no one has seen her.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Welcome!
Sign up for this new virtual club guaranteed to twist your mind as you solve puzzles and crime scenes. Do you love mysteries? This is for you! Teens in grades 6-12 are invited to register by sending an email to us. Club activities continue since October 2010 and all members will receive a link to this page.
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