SWDYT

For everyone who’s participating in the Teen Summer Reading Program - here are some tips for playing (sorry for any confusion!)

If you write a Book Review on the yellow form and go to put it in the box at the desk, make sure you ask a staff person for your MarlBuck!  We are not keeping track for you - you should receive the MarlBuck right then and there.

If you post online, I am keeping track if you are owed one for the next time you come in.

The Adult/Teen program is really a different thing altogether - it was intended for the adults as we have done in past summers but some teens prefer to just fill out the slip with the book they’ve read and be entered into the weekly drawing for a prize.  There is a seperate box on the desk for that - you will NOT earn MarlBucks for those, but you can participate in both programs.  For example, read Snakehead, then fill out the Adult/Teen form and put in box to win the weekly prize.  Also fill out the Teen Review form, put in different box and ask for your MarlBuck!

OTHER NOTES:

Make Soda- Can Tab Bracelets (and earn $20 MarlBucks!)  Monday, July 21 @ 4pm

If your family is participating in the Family Create-A-Bug, all bugs are due by Fri, August 1

If you’re in between required summer reading, and just want to read something for fun, come and check out some of the new young adult fiction that came in just yesterday!  (Ok, you have to give us a couple days to process them first!)  You can see some of the titles on the NEW FICTION page.

And just a reminder, you can still sign-up for the Teen Summer Reading Program if you haven’t yet.  Tell your friends too.  We’ve gotten a great response this year and have really increased our numbers of teens signing-up from 2007 - THANKS!

hello all!

I am just giving a quick update as I am back from vacation and excited to see that we have so many teens signed up for our fun “Don’t Bug Me @ the Library” Teen summer reading program.  Game sheets for ‘I Spy Marlborough’ are available on this blog as a pdf document, or you can get a paper copy at the Library.

Game sheets for “RML Survivor’ are now available at the Library as well. There is also a new victim posted as of today, and for those of you who started late, I left the first victim up for a while longer (also because I was away on vacation and felt bad having missed Fridays update til today)

ALSO, don’t forget, Flip-Flop fun is tonite at 6pm here at RML - bring a cheap new pair or old pair of flip-flops to decorate - we will supply all the decorations and adornments - you bring a pair that fits you - or a pair to give as a cool gift to someone (but you should know their shoe size first, he he)

Registration for our summer reading programs has begun at RML - stop in and sign-up for Don’t Bug Me @ the Library!, our teen summer reading program.  It’s fun and allows you to do as much as you want - earn MarlBucks and win some cool prizes at the Silent Auction.  If you have any questions, you can email me, Ms Eileen @ ewashburn@richmondlibrary.info or call the Library at 295-6210.

Stay Tuned for More Info!!!!

Ten Ways to Support Teen Reading

http://www.ilovelibraries.org/news/topstories/teenreading.cfm

For HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS -In case you didn’t receive a little flyer at school…

The Richmond Library is once again sponsoring a SAT Prep program with the Princeton Review on Saturday, 1/26.  It’s just like the real deal, but the scores will only be seen by you.  You take an actual test under real conditions at Marlborough Elementary School in the Media Center, 9am-1pm. 

You will get your scores back at the follow-up session on Wednesday, 2/13 from 6:30 to 8pm or so, at the Marlborough Senior Center.  This workshop is for students and parents, and an instructor from the Princeton Review will be on hand to discuss invaluable test-taking strategies that I GUARANTEE YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT, and that can only get your scores UP!  (Seriously, you need to know this stuff)

Call and register at 295-6210 by Friday 1/11

  Ok, so you probably want someone else to buy you a gift this holiday season, but here’s a list of great teen books to give as gifts anyway - so either pass the list on to the gift-buyer in your family, or check out the titles to see if there’s anything you might like!  Follow this link and then download the Teen pdf file.

http://www.ctlibrarians.org/#homeBooklist

P.S.  The titles are all recommended by CT Librarians!

Sorry this is soooo late - if you happen to be checking out the Library teen blog on a Friday nite (yeah, right) than you are in luck!  Saturday Nov 10, from 4-6pm (ok, that has also given you all Saturday morning to think, hey, I’ll check out the YA blog)  you can come to Richmond Library and play Guitar Hero III on XBOX360!!!

Sorry but it’s only open to Grades 7-12 (Rated ‘T’ for teen).  We will provide the guitar, game and TV, and of course, snacks!

so now that summer is officially over and everyone is back in school, I am sadly missing the teens I saw on a somewhat regular basis during our summer reading YNK @ the Library.  So, in order to elicit (sp?) some response and/or thoughts, ideas, on ANYTHING from programs, to what we should buy for books, to how you’d LOVE to start a Teen book club or WHATEVER - I am resorting to bribes.

The first 5 responders with a VALID idea or suggestion (I will make that call) will get to pick out a prize from my various catalogs (and that’s library catalogs - and yes, there will be a limit on the price!)

So get your brains working and give me some ideas - send me and email, write a post, or drop in and say Hi on Tuesdays or Fridays.  I’ll let you know if you are a winner (leave me your names please so I know who you are!)