Join the YP team in their National Year of Reading
challenge to read a classic a month.

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Looking for a good book? Check out Toowoomba's most popular junior and teen reads over the last six months...

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Membership Drive Competition:

Individual winners of the membership drive competition are Molly, Alex and Caitlin.

Winners of the separate school prize draw are Southbrook Central State School, Brookstead State School and Fairholme College.

Council's libraries run regular competitions for young people. Winners will be notified by the library running the competition or venue/company and announced here on our website. If you are interested in supporting your local library by donating prizes for young people, please contact your local library or the young people's team at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

The Darling Downs Regional Readers cup competition is open to all primary and secondary schools

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Entries for the 2012 Book Trailer Competition are now OPEN.

Start planning your book trailer for this year's competition.
There will be two categories, one for pirmary students and one for sedondary students. 

Entries close August 6, 2012.

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Toowoomba Regional Libraries have quality literature for young children. Our libraries offer many activities during the year and support to help find the right book. Click on the Read More link for information about activities and resources available, including Story Time sessions at many of our libraries.

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The council's libraries are keen to encourage young people discovering the joy of reading and to develop their skills in information retrieval.

Regular activities for young people are held at most of our regional libraries throughout the year. Contact your local library for more details.

Click on the Read More link below to find out about past, current and future events and activities.

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Teens are encouraged to come in and visit their local library. Choose from a large range of books, graphic novels, and music CDs for borrowing. Internet access is available free to members at all our libraries as is access to free data bases for all your study and research needs. Toowoomba City Library has a designated area for teens to hang or click on Read More below for details of regular activities.

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Find hints and tips to make homework a little easier.

You will find a range of resources from web links for information to evaluating websites and online citation aids to make referencing easier. Look for the subject link on the following page.

Toowoomba Regional Library members also have free access to online databases including encyclopedias, science and other journal databases and literature databases. Go to read more for links to databases helpful for primary and secondary school study. All databases can be found on our databases page.

All members are also eligible to apply to the State Library of Queensland for a QPL account that enables the user to have free access to many more databases. For more information visit the State Library of Queensland's website.

Homework help links and more on evaluating websites can be found in the libraries' links for young people page

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Looking for a book to read? The following book lists are suitable for certain age groups between the ages of 0 and 18. Check out your favourite topic, or find an author similar to your favourite author.

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