The Teen Library Council (TLC) is a youth advisory group for Nashville Public Library's Main Library.

The TLC:

• Organizes and helps with library programming
• Promotes library events and services
• Suggests new materials for the library’s young adult section
• Reviews young adult books
• Provides a voice for teens in the public library

The TLC meets once a month at the Main Library. If you would like more information or want to find out how you can get involved, contact Kyle Barber at 862.5800. You can also fill out an application - new TLC members are chosen each fall. TLC Application (PDF)

TLC Book, Movie, Music Recommendations

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marques

The Fugitive

Starring: Harrison Ford; Tommy Lee Jones; Sela Ward; Joe Pantoliano; Andreas Katsulas; and Jeroen Krabbe

Rated PG 13 for a murder and action

This movie is just awesome. This is the kinda movie you watch on a lazy Saturday afternoon and want to get up and run around after you watch it. It’s about a doctor whose wife is murdered and he is convicted of it. He later gets a chance to escape and when he does, he searches to find who really killed her and bring him to the authorities. Although before he does, he is hunted by the best U.S Marshals in the country and that makes it interesting.

- Jonathan

Amélie (DVD)

Amélie provides the textbook example of cinematic charm. It perfects the arts of character development and photography while playing outside application of theme. Indeed, a creation, wholly artistic in origin, that succeeds in almost every facet.

- Chance

Michael Clayton (DVD)

Michael Clayton can be a little dense but its atmosphere very successfully gets under your skin. There is much to appreciate in the direction, writing, and general setting -- you'll find it hard to forget the image of Clooney driving his car through the country in the early morning light and the clarity of his eyes as he stares into those of a trio of horses. This is the kind of movie that succeeds in the same way that, say, Blade Runner succeeds -- it's exceptionally well-made, but just not for everyone. As far as I'm concerned, it's a classic.

- Chance

Breaking Dawn

Breaking Dawn is Stephanie Meyer’s fourth and final book in the popular Twilight series. Hitting the ground running, this young-adult novel takes the romance in the last three books to a new level, an addicting read with multiple plot twists occurring within the over seven hundred page book. Breaking Dawn continues the love story of Bella Swan and her vampire lover, Edward Cullen, beginning with their marriage, then wild honeymoon, and soon after an unexpected surprise. The newlywed Cullen’s then return to the rainy Washington town of Forks, back to the rest of Edward’s vampire clan, dealing with “complications” of the new marriage, and Bella eventually ‘bites’ the bullet make the change from human to vampire. The second of three parts of the book is narrated by Jacob Black, Bella’s childhood friend who also happens to be a werewolf, an interesting change from Bella’s typical narration. As the plot continues to move, occasionally in unexpected ways, Bella resumes narrating in the way readers have grown to love, ending Breaking Dawn in a way one could only expect of the Twilight series. Though it probably won’t win any readers who disliked the previous Twilight books, Breaking Dawn is a dramatic completion of the popular series that will excite fans.

- McKenzie