Holiday Closings

We will be closed this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for the holidays. Regular hours will start on Saturday. We will close at 5:30 on December 31 and be closed January 1 for New Year's. Hope you have a fun and safe holiday.

Twilight

I saw the movie on Friday night. I thought it was great. It did not follow the book exactly, but the extra scene helped the movie. It helped those who had not read the books understand stuff that might not have been explained. I thought that the casting went well and can not wait for New Moon. What did you think?

Twilight

Are you going to see the movie today? Tell me what you think about it. Was it as good as the book? Did you like it as just a movie? I will let you know what I think after seeing it tonight.

Teen Programs

The Teen Advisory Club will meet this Sunday, the 9th, at 3pm. Come help choose the programs, movies, and books for January and beyond. We will be making CD Dreamcatchers on the 13th from 4:30 to 5:30.

On the 20th, we will have an All Things Twilight party. Come discuss the books, play trivia, and other things before the movie comes out. We will be in the Children's Program Room from 5:00-6:30pm.

Teen Movie

We will be showing the movie The Incredible Hulk on Tuesday, November 4, at 2pm. You are off school for Election Day so come by and enjoy the movie. Refreshments will be provided.

Teen's Top Ten

The votes have been counted and the Teen's Top Ten for 2008 have been decided. They are:
1. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
4. Vampire Academy by Rachel Mead
5. Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
6. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
7. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
8. Extras by Scott Westerfeld
9. Before I Die by Jenny Downham
10. Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

Hope your favorites made the cut. We have all of these at the library for checkout.

Teen Read Week Programs

Next week, October 12-18, is Teen Read Week. We have a couple of programs planned to go along with the theme Books With Bite. On Tuesday, the 14th, we will make Gock puppets. Make sock puppets that look as Goth as possible. You can go as crazy as you want. It will be from 4:30-5:30pm in the Children's Program Room. On Thursday, the 16th, we will watch the 1931 Dracula. Bela Lugosi plays Dracula in this classic. It is one of the movies that started the horror movie genre. It will be from 6:00-8:00pm in the Main Meeting Room. All programs are FREE and open to all 6th through 12th graders. Please join us for these fun programs.

*don't forget to go to www.ala.org/teenstopten and vote for you favorite books of 2007/08*

Teen Advisory Club

Because of scheduling problems, the Teen Advisory Club will meet on the THIRD Sunday this month. This means it will be October 19 at 3:oopm.

Teen Read Week

Teen Read Week is October 12-18, 2008. Bookmarks are around the library with the titles of the nominees for the Teen's Top Ten. Read the books and vote during Teen Read Week. You can help choose the Teen' Top Ten books of the year. Go to www.ala.org/teenstopten to also see the list of nominees and to vote. Info on programs will come soon.

Old School Game Day

This Wednesday many of you only have a half day of school. Come by the library for some fun from 1:30 to 3:00. We will have an old school game day where we will play old board games such as Sorry and Monopoly. We even have the new Monopoly World version. Feel free to bring your own board games also. Come hang out and have fun in the Children's Program Room for a couple of hours.

Teen Advisory Club

Come help choose programs and movies for the library. The Teen Advisory Club will be Sunday the 14th at 3:00pm. It is open to all 6th through 12th graders. The meeting will last about an hour.

September Programs

Hi guys. We have finally planned all the September programs. They are:

• 14th (3-4pm)-Teen Advisory Club
  
• 15th (5-6pm)- Book Discussion-Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements (copies are in the Teen Area)
• 18th (6-8pm)- Prom Night (Rated PG-13)
• 24th (1:30-3:00pm)- Old School Game Day. Play old board games and hang out with others your age. Feel free to bring any of you old games
• 30th (5:30-8:00pm)- Iron Man (Rated PG-13) Watch the movie the day it comes out on DVD

All programs are FREE and open to all 6th through 12th graders. Please come join us for these programs. Permission slips needed for those under 13 for movies.

Upcoming Programs

This Sunday, August 10, will be our Teen Advisory Club meeting for the month. We will meet at 3pm. We will be discussing programs for the fall and choosing movies to show. We will be have a book discussion on Eldest, the second book of the Inheritance saga, on Friday August 15. It will be at 2pm. We will also choose the book for the next month before discussion Brisngr in October. Please fell free to join us for all of these programs.

Pics

As promised, here are some pics of what we did this summer (all were taken by staff members):

Egbe Kilimanjaro African Caribbean Drumming





Sweetgrass Weaving



Juggling Workshop with Jef the Mime





Comic Drawing with Dave McDonald




We had a lot of fun this summer. If you came to any of these programs, please let me know what you thought. We will be having programs throughout the school year. Come join us for the programs.

Breaking Dawn

So the final book of Stephenie Meyer's vampire series, Breaking Dawn, came out on Saturday. Have you read it? What did you think about it? We have copies here at the library to check out if you want to read any part of the series. Let me know what you thought.

Summer Reading's Over

Hey guys. Well we have finished another summer reading program. It was the best one ever. We had a lot of fun and got to learn many new things. Pictures will be added soon. We will be starting programs again in September.

Closing

We will be closed this Friday for Independence Day. We will reopen on Saturday July 5th. Happy Holidays

Summer Reading

Summer reading began this week. We had a good group at the Egbe Kilimanjaro music program. We have movies on Tuesday at 2 and programs on Thursdays at 3:30. Join us for all the programs. Don't forget to pick up your reading packet to get prizes for reading this summer.

Memorial Day

We will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. We will reopen on Tuesday. During the weekend, why don't you go to the May Fly here in town? I have heard the planes coming in and it sounds like it will be a great festival.

Summer Reading

It's mid May and you need to start signing up for summer reading. It's going to be a great summer. We will hand out the bags at the first program and at the Children's Desk. Please come to all the programs that you can. See you this summer.

Summer Reading Registration

I wanted to remind everyone that summer reading registration begins tomorrow, May 1, and goes until Friday, May 30. Programs are on Thursdays at 3:30. Here are a list of the programs for the summer:

• June 12-Egbe Kilimanjaro Caribbean Music
• June 19-Sweetgrass Weaving ***Limit 25***
• June 26-Mime workshop
• July 3-Movie
• July 10-Comic Drawing with Dave McDonald
• July 17-Origami

We will also be showing movies on Tuesdays at 2:00. Permission slips are needed for those under 13 to attend the PG-13 rated movies. Our summer movies are:

• June 10-National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Rated PG)
• June 17-The Eye (Rated PG-13)
• June 22-Definitely, Maybe (Rated PG-13)
• July 1-Spiderwick Chronicles (Rated PG)
• July 8-Vantage Point (Rated PG-13)
• July 15-College Road Trip (Rated G)
• July 22-Step Up 2: The Streets (Rated PG-13)
  

Happy Spring Break

I hope everyone has a fun and safe spring break.

April Things

Just wanted to let you know about our April programs. We will have our Teen Advisory Club meeting on Sunday, April 6th. We will be choosing movies for the summer and what books to use for the book club. We will have an altered books workshop on Tuesday April 8th at 4:30. Take old books and create something new out of them. The movie will be Sydney White on Tuesday April 22 at 6:00pm. Please come and join us for these programs

Easter Closing

We will be closed Friday-Sunday, March 21-23 for Easter holidays. We will reopen on Monday March 24.

Book discussion group ideas

We are trying to start a book discussion group for teens here at the library. One idea I had was to read some books that are series just before the next installment comes out. Examples: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer arrives in August. We could read Twilight in May, New Moon in June, and Eclipse in July. Also Brisingr by Christopher Paolini comes out in September. We could read Eragon in July and Eldest in August. What do you think?

Teen Tech Week

Next week, March 2-8, is Teen Tech Week. It is a week to promote technology and services to teens in the library. The theme this year is Tune In @ Your Library. We will be having music based events all week. The programs are FREE and open to all 6th through 12th graders. They will begin at 5:00pm unless otherwise stated. Here is what will be happening next week:

Monday, March 3-CD Dream Catchers (we will make dream catchers out of old CDs)

Tuesday, March 4-Podcasting (learn what podcasting is and how to add to your blog or MySpace)

Wednesday, March 5-CD Swap (bring in those gently used CDs to trade with others)

Thursday, March 6-Movie-School of Rock (Rated PG-13)

Friday, March 7 (2:00-4:00pm)-Gaming (we will have a PS2 with DDR, a PS2 with Guitar Hero and a Wii with Wii Sports to play in the meeting room)

Another New Book

A series that has gotten a lot of attention lately is the vampire series by Stephenie Meyer. The books published so far are Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. The final book of the series Breaking Dawn will be released on August 2. A companion book, Midnight Sun, is Twilight told from the guy's perspective. The movie of Twilight will come out in December. I highly suggest you reading the series.

New Book

I have been meaning to let you know this for a while.

Christopher Paolini's third book in the Inheritance series will be out on September 20. The title is Brisingr. We will have it to check out as soon as it hit shelves. I can't wait, can you?

February stuff

Here are the programs for the month of February:

The performers that were to come on the 8th cannot make it. Instead, we will watch the movie Stomp the Yard. It is rated PG-13 so permission slips will be needed for those under 13. It will be in the main meeting room and start at 2:00pm. Many students do not have school that day so come join us for the movie.

We will have our Teen Advisory Club meeting on the 10th. We will be discussing programs for April and for the summer. Any 6th through 12th grader is invited to attend.

We will show the movie Bridge to Terabithia on the 19th. It will begin at 6pm in the main meeting room. Refreshments will be provided.

January Programs

Happy 2008!! Just wanted to let you know about the teen programs for this month.

We will be having our Teen Advisory Club meeting at 3pm on the 13th. If you would like a say in what programs and movies are held at the library, come and join this group. We will discuss programming for March and April, choose some books, and talk about a name for the group.

On the 15th, We will be making beeswax candles from 4:30-5:30. You can take home whatever you make.

On the 22nd, we will watch the movie Transformers. If you are under 13, you will need a permission slip signed by a parent.

Refreshments are provided at all events. Come join us for fun at the library this month.