If you're in grades 7 through 12 and you have ideas that boost the library's coolness factor, join the GEPL TAB and help teen events. Use the library as your platform for turning your interests into real programs. The goal is to create at least one teen-planned and supervised event every 3 months. Bring your friends. Pizza. Will. Be. Served.
First meeting: Monday, October 6, 7 - 8 pm
Sign up at the Youth or Adult reference desk.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Teen Radio Show
If you're in middle school or high and are interested in the world of radio, love to discuss a partidular topic, or are just looking for something fun to do, come to the library and create podcasts to be posted on the library's webpage. You can discuss books, current events, sports, movies and more. Your simulated 'broadcast' will remain in the library's radio project archive!
First meeting: Monday, October 20, 7 - 8 pm
Sign up online or at the Adult Services or Youth Services desk.
Drop In Book Buddies
Middle school and high school students! Sign up to be a Book Buddy and read to a younger child (no younger than 4 years old) for an hour each week at the library. Registration ends on September 30.
Last Call for Book Reviews!
Hey Everyone, if you haven't yet submitted your book review for the Teen Read Week Book Review Contest, bring your reviews to the library ASAP!
You can submit up to three of your reviews of books you loved... or just hated (keep it clean please!) Bring submissions to the Youth Services or Adult Services desks.
The winner will receive a gift certificate to Borders.
All reviews will be stuck on a wall somewhere in the library in honor of Teen Read Week October 13th - 18th.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
September Book of the Month: Postcards From No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
Alternating between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation. This is a tightly woven presentation of two fascinating stories, one historical and one contemporary, but both will resonate with today's readers with their appeal to the senses and interesting portrayal real life family and social situations.
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