Programs:Teen Reading Lounge

Special Book Award Caps 1st Year of TRL

"PHC can play an important role in helping young people develop an awareness of how the humanities reach every corner of our lives. Working with them is our opportunity to deliver civility and culture to the world they will create."
— Mary Garm, Lackawanna County Library System and PHC Board Member

PHC Pilots Program for New Audiences

PHC believes that including teen audiences in the public humanities is the first step in building a community of well-informed, highly-engaged adults. Teen Reading Lounge (TRL) is a new interactive book discussion series created by PHC for public libraries to encourage teens, ages 12-18, to read and talk about literature that matters to them. Read more about why PHC feels it's important to reach teen audiences. [416K PDF]

Through book discussion and artistic workshops with a qualified facilitator, teens create special projects and sharpen critical thinking skills. The program, which occurs over several sessions, appeals to popular interests in young adult literature. Libraries can choose from two series, fantasy fiction and graphic novels.

TRL has two goals:

  • Increase the capacity of librarians to conduct public humanities programming for teen audiences
  • Introduce teen audiences to the value of the arts and humanities

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Teen Reading Lounge is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, supported in part by federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds administered by the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries.

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