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Seven of our Favorites: These seven titles are just a small sample of DIY materials you can find at your public library. 
Knit.1, Travel Issue, Spring 2006.
This magazine focuses on unique knitting patterns for the modern knitter. Each issue includes patterns, product reviews, horoscopes, and  interviews with unlikely knitters.  With each season, there is a theme:  travel, love, television, color, men's knitting, or sports.  At least one beginner pattern is in each issue, along with learn to knit instructions. The web-site has a blog, a photo gallery of reader projects, and how-to workshops.
Click Here for the Knit.1 Website
Bikes, Scooters, Skates, and Boards, by Neil Bibbins. Storey Books, 2002.
This book provides all the information you need to buy, fix, improve and move your wheels.  It is focused mainly on bikes, but a complete buying guide and repair section is included for scooters, skates, and skate boards too.  The spiral binding means the book stays open and flat--very helpful when you are working on your bike.  There is a ten-point tune up for your bike--the perfect way to be sure your bike is ride ready.
Insparation:  A Teen's Guide to Healthy Living, by Mary Beth Sammons & Samantha Moss.  Watson-Guptill, 2005.
This book is a how-to guide to healthy living.  It is based on actual teen treatments from more than 30 spas.  DIY instructions for facials, makeup, exercise, zapping stress, and lifiting your spirits are included, along with tips from the pros at the spas.  If you want to learn to care for all of you:  mind, body, & spirit, this is an excellent place to start.
Cooking Up a Storm:  The Teen Survival Cookbook, by Sam Stern.  Candlewick Press, 2005.
Sixteen-year-old British celebrity chef Sam Stern wrote his first cookbook with teenagers in mind.  With special emphasis on fresh good-quality food and the independence cooking gives you, he says "It's full of simple, tasty recipes -- the kinds of things my friends like to eat." 
Click Here for Sam's Home Page
It's Your World - If You Don't Like It, Change It: Activism for Teenagers, by Mikki Halpin.  Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Helping animals, fighting racism, saving the environment, ending war, defending women's rights, promoting tolerance toward LGBTQ youth...these are only some of the causes this book discusses.  With an outline of the major issues, stories of what other teens have done, and a guide to what you can do, this is an excellent handbook for the teen activist.
Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?  The Art of Making Zines and Mini-Comics, by Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson.  Graphia 2006
Have you ever wanted to publish your own ideas, stories, or comics?  Zines are handmade magazines that are self-published and can be about anything.  This book will show you how you can do it yourself with just a pen, paper, some quarters for the copy machine and your own ideas and creativity.
Draw Your Own Manga:  All the Basics, by Haruno Nagatomo.  Kodansha Internationa, 2003.
Now that you know how to self-publish your own comics, learn how to draw your own manga characters with this book, which features everything from the materials needed to get started to creating special effects.  This book also features interviews with famous manga artists Takao Yaguchi and Toru Fujisawa.
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