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Hello teens!
We’re getting close to the end of summer (OH say it isn’t so! I’m not ready for it to be over!) and all of our teen programming for the summer have been completed. We drank blue (kind of!) iced tea at the kick off party, we tied dyed some awesome towels and t-shirts, we learned how to conserve water at the workshop, and we made some beachy sun catchers yesterday! However, there are still a few more ways you can get involved before the summer reading program is totally over. Create a piece of artwork for the theme “Under the Waves” and submit it to the circulation desk. The teen that creates the piece of artwork that most shows the theme might even win a special prize, besides having their work displayed proudly in the library, that is! Also, we’ll be accepting completed reading logs until the end of the month. First three teens to hand in their log showing 15 hours of reading this summer will get a 10$ gift card to Dunkin Donuts! No one’s brought them in yet, so all three are still up for grabs! You can get a reading log at the teen reading area under the window. You can also bring in pictures of you reading in various places so we can decorate the teen area. Shoot me an email if you have any questions, or stop on by the library.
Hey teens! How is your summer going so far? Besides crazy hot anyway, right! Don’t forget, the library has the AC on, so if you get too hot, come chill out at the library and read a book or a magazine, or use our public use computers.
The Make Waves teen summer reading program has started, so I wanted to let you guys know what’s going on with that. We already did our towel tie dye, I had 3 girls in the library for that and we really enjoyed it. Coming up next we have the water workshop on July 16th. We’re going to learn why its important to conserve water and how we can conserve water at home. As part of the activities I will be giving away a 25$ gift card to McDonalds! So come and learn how to conserve water 2:00-3:00pm next Friday!!
After that we will be having our sun catcher craft. We’ll be using sea glass, sea shells, and other bits of ocean or water themed items to make a nice sun catcher to hang in your bedroom, on your porch, really anyway! That will be on August 11th from 6:00-7:00pm. Our size is limiting! Only 15 teens so be sure to stop in at the library and sign up!
Also, I have some reading logs for you at the library to keep track of your reading this summer. My goal for you guys is to read for 15 hours this summer. It doesn’t matter what you read, books, magazines, or newspapers, as long as you are reading! So pick up a reading log at the library and start keeping track of your reading time! As a special incentive, the first 3 teens to turn in their completed reading logs will get a $10 gift card to Dunkin Donuts!
How about my artists? Are they out there? I sure hope so! Create a piece of art work for the theme “Under the Waves” and bring it to the library to be displayed. We will have 3 local artists judge your artwork and the person with the art that best expresses our theme will get 2 tickets to any 2010 performance at the Granite Theater. So get your pencils, pens, paints, clay, or whatever you create art with ready to go, cause the deadline for entry is August 21st!
Anything else? Oh, if you snap a picture of yourself reading someplace and bring it in to decorate our teen area I have a special little gift for you…I’ll keep that one a secret…cause I mean, who doesn’t like a good surprise? I want to decorate our teen area with pics like…Bella reading in the park….Jacob reading in the woods….Alice reading in the library…. Amanda reading at the beach…anything like that!
Whew this was a long post! I’m so done now thou! I can’t wait to see you guys soon. Stop in at the library, comment here, or email me at teenlibrary@langworthylibrary.org
Teens, I went for a walk today and got all sweaty and sun burnt. On a walk! I’m pretty sure that means that summer is here. And that means that the teen summer reading program is starting at Langworthy! I have some really great programs lined up for this summer so I hope that I can get a bunch of you to come in and participate. To start things off, I’m throwing a kick off party this Wednesday at the library from 5:30-7:30. Since this year’s theme is Make Waves at your library, I’m going to play some beachy music and serve you some water-themed refreshments! I’ll be going over the entire program and what will be happening Wednesday night so I hope you all can make it. I’m even going to have goodie bags for everyone who comes! So remember, its Wednesday night 5:30 to 7:30 in the library with music, goodies, and snacks! PS! If you can’t make it, keep an eye out for another blog post from me later this week where I’ll put up info about the program on here. You can also check out the Teen Summer Program link on the homepage.
Hello teens!
How many days of school left? Do you know? I bet you do, I definitely remember counting down the days left until summer vacation. I want to wish you all good luck on your final exams and remind you that if you need any help, you can come into the library. It’s a great place to study and we have a lot of resources to help you with any final projects you have going on. Need help studying for that tough subject? How about coming in and getting some study tips or meeting a few friends at the library for a study group? If you let us know ahead of time we can even see if you can use the archives rooms for a quiet study space. We are here to help!
After school is out, then you’ll have time to relax and enjoy your summer. One of my favorite ways to relax is to read! Its one of the reasons I became a librarian. This year’s summer reading program at the library is called Catch the Reading Wave! Along with your normal school summer reading, keep an eye out for some fun water themed programs at the library this summer! I have some great ideas for us and I hope you teens will be just as excited as I am!
I just received the information for the summer pen pal program for those of you who want to write and make new friends across the state. This program is open to anyone ages 11 to 18 who would like to participate. If you’re interested come into the library and pick up a Welcome sheet and an introductory letter in the Young Adult area. (If there aren’t any more over there, don’t hesitate to ask the librarian for one) Fill out the introductory letter and give it to me, Karyn, or have another librarian put it in my staff box. And that is all you need to do to get started!
Be on the lookout for more posts to let you know what other ideas I come up with for us this summer. Because of the theme, I’m definitely thinking lots of water themed events! Have any ideas for me? Be sure to comment!
Remember, 14 days left until summer vacation! Be excited!
Good morning teens! Did you all enjoy my peanut butter blog entry? I hope so. I definitely did…I’ve been craving peanut butter cookies for days now. But instead, I made some awesome homemade fig newtons yesterday. They tasted good, but they took quite a bit of work. Anyway, on to today’s post!
Maybe some of you have friends who are vegans, or are vegans yourself. And maybe some of you don’t quite know what a vegan is. Well, a vegan is a person who tries not to use animal products of any kind. That means they don’t eat products from animals like meat or dairy products and they don’t buy clothing made from animal skins. People become vegans because they are concerned about the treatment of animals in the commercial world and they don’t want to be a part of possibly harming these animals.
In the United States a survey in 2002 found that 4% of American adults are vegans. That might sound pretty small, but that actually comes out to about twelve million American vegans! Some famous vegans include Alanis Morissette, Andy Hurley from Fall Out Boy, Brian Bell from Weezer, Elijah Wood, Ellen Degeneres, Leonardo Da Vinci, Tobey Maguire, and Weird Al Yankovich! So, do you think we can find some books on vegans and veganism? You bet we can!
I found one teen fiction book about a vegan teenager that sounds pretty good. Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler is about high school senior Mara Valentine, a vegan, the valedictorian of her class, and on her way to Yale next year. But her senior year turns out to be a little rockier than intended when her wild cousin moves in with her family. There are also several great nonfiction books for teens about veganism including The Students Go Vegan Cookbook by Carole Raymond and Everything you need to know about being a Vegan by Stefanie Iris Weiss. And there are A LOT more vegan cookbooks in the adult nonfiction section if you get more interested.
On the web, I found some more resources for teens about veganism. First, I found a nice brochure from The Vegetarian Resource Group titled Vegan Diets in a Nutshell. You can check it out here: http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/vegan_nutshell.pdf
VegFamily is a magazine for vegan families, but it also has some great articles for teens.
How to be a Vegan Teenager http://www.vegfamily.com/vegan-teens/how-to-be-a-vegan-teenager.htm
Life and Times of a Vegan Teen http://www.vegfamily.com/vegan-teens/life-and-times.htm
Well that’s all for November as Vegan month, click back here next week time to read about National Absurdity Day! I’m sure it will be completely and totally absurd. Until then!
Hello teens! I haven’t blogged lately for two reasons. One, I’ve been super busy. Two, I had some blogger’s block about what to blog about! However, today I came up with an idea. Let’s explore some of the events of November! Here’s how this works. I’m going to tell you about a not very well known November event or holiday and then provide you with books, websites, or other resources that go along with that theme! Let’s see how many I can come up with.
This caught my eye first. November is Peanut Butter Lover’s Month. As a peanut butter lover myself, I thought that this deserved some attention.
Let’s start with books. Peanut butter is kind of a random subject to be looking for books about. I mean, there are plenty of nonfiction books about peanut butter like The Ultimate Peanut Butter Book by Bruce Weinstein and Peanut Butter Party by Remy Charlip, but fiction books? That’s a bit harder and I sadly did not find any teen books that involved peanut butter. One more nonfiction book that caught my eye although was Teens Cook Dessert by Megan and Jill Carle. It only has 2 peanut butter recipes, but I am such a sucker for dessert!
Now for other resources about peanut butter and Peanut Butter Lover’s Month I have two websites to share with you. The first is peanutbutterlovers.com which has lots of great stuff including history, how its made, nutrition, a contest, recipes, and a section about National Peanut Month, which is a little different and is March. The second website is just for fun, it’s a peanut butter trivia quiz! I hope you guys do better than I did. I only got 5/15 right. Comment on my blog and let me know how many you got right!
Here’s the quiz: http://babyparenting.about.com/library/peanutbutter/blpeanutbutterquiz.htm
In my next blog post… an exploration of Vegan Month resources! I’m sure I’ll find lots on that, so be sure to check back and see what they are!
So, my last two posts have been about reader’s applications on Facebook. Today I thought I’d go over some safety tips for using Facebook. As a social networking site, you need to be careful of what information you make available to people to keep yourself and your family safe. First of all, according to Facebook’s rules, you need to be at least 13 to have a Facebook account. Kids 13-17 should talk to their parents first about opening a Facebook account. Here are some general tips:
• Never share your password with anyone else
• Adjust your privacy settings so that only your friends can view your complete profile
• Post identifying information cautiously! (like information that could be used to locate you)
• Report other users that you see violating Facebooks rules, such as posting illegal or offensive content
• Block and report anyone who sends you inappropriate or unwanted communication
For more information you can check Facebook’s safety page here: http://www.facebook.com/safety/
Or you can check out these other sites about Internet Safety
• OnguardOnline.gov
• WiredSafety.org
• Commonsense.com
• Ncmec.org
• TRUSTe.org
• ConnectSafely.org
• NetSmartz.org
• WebWiseKids.org
That’s all for today so I’ll just leave you with my last read books: Wings by Aprilynne Pike (5/5!) and Anahita’s Woven Riddle by Meghan Nuttall Sayres (another awesome 5/5!)
TWO MORE COMMENTS! Yay! Thanks so much to rhinoplasty and wow power leveling for commenting on my blog. You guys are awesome.
Now, part two of my Facebook apps for readers…my review of Visual Bookshelf!
Now, first off, Visual Bookshelf is a division of the Living Social applications. Some of the other Living Social apps include Albums, Movies, Restaurants, Slopes, Video Games, and more! Living Social has all sorts of apps to show off your favorite things. (I’m tempted to check out Restaurants myself…I love good food!)
Visual Bookshelf is split into 7 pages, which are all accessible from tabs along the top of the pages, a similar setup to WeRead. The 7 pages are Home, My Profile, My Collection, Recommendations, Leader boards, Trends, and Settings.
On the Home page there is a search box where you can search by title, author, or even ISBN! Also on the home page it lists any updates from your friends who also use the application, a featured book, your recent reads, a list of your friends who use the app, and 6 recommendations picked out for you based on the books that you’ve read.
On the My Profile page you can see a bunch of stuff about yourself, including your ‘already read’ collection (mine is up to 243!!), your ‘want to read’ collection (I have 6 in there), your recent activity, your top rated books, and your list of friends also using the app. On the My Collection page, it just gives you a list of everything you’ve read, or marked that you want to read. You can even search within your collection to check if you’ve read a certain book.
Best page! The Recommendations page! On this page the app generates…can you guess…recommendations for you! And if you don’t see some you like, you can scroll to the bottom and click generate more and get a whole new set! I find that the more books you have in your collection, the more recommendations you can get.
The next tab is really neat, the Leaderboards page. This page is split into further groupings of the most popular books, readers, contributors, and reviewers. This is a neat way to see which books are most popular right now. Thou I think they could add in authors too. The next page is similar to the Leaderboards page, its the Trends page. This also gives you the most popular, but it also gives the ‘biggest movers’ meaning the stuff that has changed in popular the most in the time frame you pick. (This week, last week, this month, last month, and all time) Finally, the settings page is exactly what it sounds like =)
Well I hope you guys enjoyed hearing about these two cool apps for readers on Facebook, I know that I love them and use them. I know this will seem kind of backwards, but since I’ve been talking about Facebook, on my next post I’m going to talk about your safety and private on that site, and other similar sites. Until next time!
Good morning teens! I know you’re all at school right now, but I’ll assume you’re going to read my blog when you get home. =)
First of all thanks to my three blog posts from Study, Spanish School Mexico, and San Cristobel Spanish School for your positive comments on my blog. I am not sure if some of those comment came from the same person signing under different names but it’s still really nice to know someone is reading and appreciating what I have to say!
Now, I know that all you teens (and a lot of adults like me these days!) are using Facebook. It’s a lot of fun, I will admit that, I use it myself to keep up with friends who have moved away. But besides the social aspect of the site, Facebook has another cool part, the applications, or ‘apps.’ Apps are widgets (kind of a tool or program) you can add to your Facebook account or Facebook profile to do something specific and can vary from the silly to the serious. So today I wanted to tell you about two Facebook apps for readers. There are quite a few out there actually, but I decided to review the two most widely used ones, Visual Bookshelf and weRead (Books iRead). Both of these apps serve the similar purpose of giving you a place to keep track of the books you have read and giving you some suggestions on what to read next.
weRead was the app that I started out using months ago, since it was the only one available at the time. On the homepage for weRead there are current popular titles, a quick poll, a link for a place to read ebooks, the most recent book discussion boards, some status updates from users, the list of your friends who also use weRead, popular authors, top searches, new releases, and a featured author.
The next tab on weRead is My Reads, a place where all the books you have listed that you read are. You can also mark books as ‘wanna read,’ ‘own,’ ‘reading it,’ ‘heck no!!,’ (meaning you don’t even want to pick it up!) or ‘favorite.’ The next tab is the Friends page, where you can see how much your friends have read and click thru to their full profiles to see what they have read, wanna read, and so on. The next tab brings you to the Quiz page. This can be a lot of fun! weRead throws random book trivia questions at you one at a time and you pick the correct answer. You get a score, and if you start to do well enough, a global ranking! The next page is the Chucks page. This is a fun part of weRead where you can ‘chuck’ a book at one of your friends. If you have a friend who needs a serious nudge to read a book, why not chuck a book at them? (Only on Facebook please, don’t chuck actual books at your friends!)
Next, one of the best parts of weRead, in my opinion anyway, is the recommendations page! I don’t know about you teens, but I am ALWAYS looking for my next book…or 5. (I read fast!) On weRead you can get 25 book recommendations every day! weRead lists them singly and when it shows you a book it gives you the title, author, the readers’ rating, user reviews, and a description. Then you have the choices of clicking “I like it,” “I don’t like it,” or simply skipping that one if you’re undecided to go to your next recommendation.
Second to last page is the Authors page where you can find out which authors have joined weRead. How cool is that? Authors are like celebrities to me and I would love to see their Facebook pages and see what they are up to and what kind of status updates they put up. Finally the last page on weRead is the More page, a kind of miscellaneous page where they put everything that didn’t really fit into any of the other pages. There is a lot on this page that you can explore, but a few of the links are browse genres, leader boards, top networks, and importing books to the weRead catalog. Take some time and explore this page, it is definitely worth it!
I love weRead and I hope you guys take some time to explore this app. I hope it helps you keep track of what you’ve read and liked or not liked and it helps you find other books to read. Along with that you can share what you’ve read and liked with your friends. (Hey I would never chuck Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at my friends in real life, but it’s totally ok you won’t give them a concussion doing this on weRead!) This is a really great app that has so many different tools and pages to explore.
This blog post turned out to be a lot longer than I expected, so I’m going to leave reviewing Visual Bookshelf for next time. Until then, take a look at weRead and tell me what you think about it. And as always, share what you’ve been reading with me or things you would like to do or see at Langworthy. Until next time teens!
Another update on summer reading books! Kind of late in the ‘summer’ I know, but hey, give me some slack! =) If you didn’t get some of your reading done, we do still have the summer reading books set aside for you! They will stay on the summer reading shelf until the end of the month if you need to come in, read one (or a few), or just refresh your memory. Besides, these are some great books to read anyway.
Want to hear some of my faves out of them? I hope so, cause I’m gonna share anyway. Ok, out of the 7th and 8th grade lists I have read Darkside, Keeping Corner, Schooled, Waiting for Normal, The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Uglies, Fallen Angels, Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale, Cut, and The Golden Compass. Whew! Even I didn’t realize I had read so many of these! Anyway, I would say my favorite out of these was Keeping Corner. It was about a young women living in early 20th century India and how she fights against tradition to hold her life together after a disaster. It was very inspiring! I highly recommend it.
On the 9th grade list I have read You Don’t Know Me and Ender’s Game. My favorite out of these two is very easy to pick, since Ender’s Game is one of my all time favorite science fiction novels. On the 10th grade lists (both regular and honors) I have read After the First Death and The Things They Carried. Both of these books are fascinating, but I like The Things They Carried a little more. 11th grade, I’ve read Feed, Peeps, and The Lovely Bones. Now it is really hard for me to choose here between Feed and Peeps, cause I do love Feed as an awesome scifi novel, but I am totally OBSESSED with vampires and Peeps is a really neat new take on vampirism. So, tie for 11th grade! FINALLY! On the senior lists I have read…none of them! Come on guys, I couldn’t keep up my awesome reading streak for long.
So write me a comment and tell me which books you’ve read, which ones you like, I would LOVE to hear from you! Or write me a comment or an email about anything else interesting you have come across, whether its music, a book, a magazine, a tv show, a movie, or even a really neat website!
On my next post… Facebook apps for readers!
Hey teens =)
Its been a while since I’ve written, the library gets pretty crazy during the summer! Between all you guys coming in looking for your summer and everyone else reading more over the lazy summer days I’m always kept bopping when I’m at work. And I also have been doing LOTS of reading on my own summer break! I adore vampire novels and all other paranormal and fantasy writing. I read a pretty good teen book called Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli. It was based on Greek mythology and was about a siren named…Sirena of course! It was a sweet story that had love, adventure, and Greek mythology, another love of mine! I recommend it!
Otherwise! What have you teens been up to? What have you been reading? Lots of good stuff I hope! Here’s hoping school is going well and that you have all your summer reading all set. If not…well we still have the books for you procrastinators! Come in and check out the selection.
Drop me a comment or an email! I’d really enjoy hearing from you. Anything you want to share, a great book you read, a neat website, some new hot music, or a really great movie. (BTW, I’m seeing 9 later today and I’m really excited about it! I <3 Tim Burton) If you have any ideas for teen activities or groups at the library feel free to talk to me about those too! Hope to hear from
Happy Monday teens! I’m sure Mondays aren’t so bad for you guys now that you are out of school for the summer. What do mondays mean for you now? Leave me a comment and let me know if you’re doing anything special on this cloudy Monday!
So, I know, I’m late on my The Adoration of Jenna Fox booktalk! I’m sorry! But it just go so busy here in the library on Friday that I didn’t have time to do it. But here we go, let me tell you about The Adoration of Jenna Fox.
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
by Mary Pearson
Jenna wakes up from a terrible year long coma to the loving faces of her parents…or so they tell her they are her parents. But Jenna doesn’t remember anything. She doesn’t even remember the car accident that nearly killed her…and did kill her two friends. Luckily, her parents have lots of videodisks with video of Jenna growing up, so she can learn all about herself. But something strange is going on…and Jenna knows her parents are trying to hide something from her.
Jenna begins to remember small parts of her life slowly and at the same time she knows that something is different about her now. But what is it? Jenna finds out in the book and you can too if you check out this excellent sci-fi novel about who we are as people.
I enjoyed this book very much myself and I hope you guys will give it a try too. If you read it, or already have read it, feel free to leave a comment and let us know what you thought!
What else do I have for you guys today? Let’s see…oh yes! I’m going to make the sign up sheet for the Hemp Jewelry workshop today, so make sure next time your in the library you sign up for that!
That’s about all for today, leave me some comments guys, I’d love to hear from you!
Hellooo teens and welcome to the first post on the Langworthy Library Teen Blog! My name is Karyn Gardiner, you might have seen me before at the library, I’m the short blond girl with the blue glasses. I hope you guys enjoy hearing from me this summer just as much as I enjoy writing this and running the teen summer reading program. The theme of the teen summer reading program this summer is Express Yourself! So first and foremost this summer, get out there and express yourself and who you are!
Let’s start out with a short overview of the programs we’re running this summer for you!
First we have the actual reading part of it, which is probably one of my favorite parts, but hey, I’m the librarian, so that’s expected! There will be reading logs available on the young adult window sill for you to grab so that you can keep track of what you read this summer. You can keep track of anything and everything that you read, books, poems, magazines, newspapers, really anything you read, I wanna hear about it. Keep a good log of what you read this summer, and you could win prizes!
In addition, we have your summer reading books for school available for you across from our DVD’s whenever you are ready to get started on those. If we don’t have the one you want to read, you can put a hold on it, don’t forget that! Every week I’m going to try to post a nice little booktalk for you guys to check out here to find out about some great books! The first booktalk will be posted on Friday and I’ll be telling you about The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson.
Now we also have a few other programs we’re running that you can express yourself in. First off, we’re running a pen pal program for anyone ages 11 to 18 (if you are 10, you can participate if you are turning 11 during the summer) so you can get a chance to write letters to a new friend somewhere in Rhode Island. Writing letters via “snail mail,” can be a lot of fun and a great way to be creative. (more ideas on how to be creative with snail mail coming soon) Sign up sheets are on the YA window sill and need to be in to me by July 3!
Next, the program that I am the most excited about! We’re starting a teen photography club at Langworthy and I would love to get you all involved. Our first meeting will be this Wednesday, June 24th from 6pm to 7:30pm. We’re going to talk about what sort of categories we want to use for our pictures, (like reading, the beach, camping, shopping) looking at some books about photography, and giving away a disposable underwater camera! I am just SO EXCITED about this underwater camera, I can’t wait to see what whoever wins it does with it! So I hope a lot of you will come on Wednesday, you bring yourselves; I’ll bring the juice and cookies!
On July 22nd I will be running a hemp jewelry workshop. If you’ve ever wanted to make your own jewelry, you should come check this out! I learned how to make hemp jewelry from a kit when I was 12 and I have loved it ever since. Hemp jewelry is quite easy to learn to make and you can do so much with it, not to mention the hemp cord is very affordable! A sign up for this workshop will be posted shortly, so keep an eye out for it
I think that’s just about everything I wanted to cover today, if you have any questions or comments you can email me at teenlibrary@langworthylibrary.org, post here, call the library, or come into the library!
Last, I want to hear from you! Leave me a blog comment and tell me how you are going to express yourself this summer! Also, don’t forget to check back on Friday to read my booktalk on The Adoration of Jenna Fox!