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Getting Creative with Summer Reading

Inspired by a discussion of vampire novels at the library, teens from our Carnegie West branch took the Summer Reading Club theme of Be Creative @ Your Library to another level. During a discussion of the novel Blue Bloods, librarian Helen Zaluckyj challenged the group to write a book using Cleveland locations as inspiration, while incorporating the term "mercy killing" into their writing. Writing under the pen name The Carnegie Seven, they have written seven parts to a story entitled Mercy Killing and have YouTube and Quizilla accounts to share it with the world. The group is also developing zines and manga related to Mercy Killing. Says the group, "Writing Mercy Killing has been lots of fun for everyone." Click here for an excerpt.