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.