Fire in the basement!

I wasn't here yesterday because it was my random Thursday off, but apparently I missed an exciting day at the library. A light fixture in the basement auditorium caught on fire and burned through the cover. The fire department came and the library was closed for about two and a half hours while things got cleaned up.

What does this mean for library programs? The only programs that will be canceled are today's movie (and possibly next week's movie) and the Teen Game Day scheduled for next Tuesday the 14th at 3 p.m. (booooo!!!) All other programs will either be outside or in the Town Hall auditorium depending on the weather and the program.

Specifically:

Pajama Storytime Monday, July 13 will be upstairs in the kids room

Toddler Storytimes on Tuesday, July 14 (9:30 and 10:15) will be either outside or in the Town Hall auditorium (depending on weather)

Summer Escapades with Diane Edgecomb (storyteller with harp! awesome!) on Wednesday, July 15 at 10 a.m. will be in Town Hall auditorium

Crafternoon/Gamernoon Wednesdays 3 - 5 p.m. will be upstairs in the youth room

Art with Sara Thursday, July 16 from 10 to 11 a.m. will be in Town Hall auditorium

Big Kid & Baby Storytimes on Fridays 10 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. respectively will be either outside or in the Town Hall auditorium (depending on weather)

It stinks, but thank goodness for beautiful Town Hall right across the street!!

Upcoming teen events!

EVENTS

Teen Game Days Fridays: April 17, May 15, June 19 from 3 - 5 p.m.

TAG Meetings Tuesdays: May 5 & June 9

(the May 5 TAG meeting will have a Cinco de Mayo theme!)

Writing Club Thursdays: April 9, 30 & May 7, 21 from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

VOLUNTEER

Letterboxing Thursday, April 23 from 2 - 3 p.m.

Fancy Nancy Party (including a fashion show!) Wednesday, May 27 from 6:30 - 7:15 p.m.

Or see Laura to cut, color, laminate, or photocopy!! She always needs help.

All these events are held at the Millicent Library in the auditorium. Please see Laura to sign up for the volunteer opportunities. See y'all soon!

Happy Snow Day!

It's actually my day off, so no bonus day for me... I hope the rest of you enjoy the snow day, though! We have a TAG meeting tomorrow at 4 p.m. and lots of fun events next week:

YouTube Viewing Party
Wednesday, March 11 6:45 p.m.
Send me your favorite YouTube videos (comments after this post is great!).
We'll watch them all and vote on the best.
Popcorn will be served. :)

Teen Game Day
Friday, March 13 3 - 5 p.m.
Mario Kart, Guitar Hero (World Tour? JP?), DDR, etc.
also classics like Twister & Catch Phrase. I know you guys love those!!

one more crazy story

Written by the writing club for 11 - 15 yr olds that meets most Thursdays from 3 - 4 p.m. Join us on January 15 or 29. We always have yummy snacks...

Laila couldn’t believe Tom decided to talk to her that day—he’d never noticed her before! From that day on, Laila knew her life wouldn’t be the same…

She got a whole new confidence she never knew she had. After that day she talked to Tom all the time. Before class, during class, after class! Her life was finally going the way she wanted it to. After a week, Tom actually asked Laila on a date! She was so excited she couldn’t help herself…

Finally the date had come. I couldn’t wait. Tom was there at a table so I went to the table. We talked and I ordered one of everything on the menu. I was eating everything and then I ate Tom. He tasted good. I’m sooooo fat!

Then I wanted to know where Tom went. Then I didn’t feel so good. I barfed and there was Tom. I was about to say sorry when he ran out of the restaurant screaming, “Mommy!” A few months passed and I decided to lose weight. When I got to a size 3, I decided to apologize to Tom. When I saw him he looked…

Yummy. “I’m really, really sorry for eating you” I said.

“It’s okay,” He actually forgave me! “You wanna try this again?” he asked.

“Yes, yes, yes!” I said.

“This time don’t eat me please,” he said.

“Okay, I won’t,” he said. I didn’t know if I could promise that.

“Oh, so tonight at 8 okay?” he asked.

I nodded, “I can’t wait!”

That night when he picked me up, I looked hot. Smokin’ in fact. He said so right away. I was feeling okay and wasn’t even all that interested in eating him until he moved a little during the movie and I saw a bit of his neck from under his turtleneck.

“ohhhh” I moaned, biting my hand.

I knew that by the end of the night, I’d probably eat Tom. Anyone have any Grey Poupon??

where have I been?

I know, I know...long time no blog. We've been busy at the library anyway with Writing Club meetings for teens every Thursday from 3 - 4 p.m. and TAG meetings once a month. This month we frosted sugar cookies (pictures coming) and then ate them all. I thought about making them for shut-ins or something else like that, but it would involve making way more cookies than I actually had time for. Maybe next year.

Last night, Hailey, Kelsey & Molly were my personal heroes and helped out at the American Girl Tea Party for ages 5+. It was tons of fun!! We decorated headbands, played "Toss a Smile" and read a little from Happy Birthday, Samantha. Kelsey, Hailey & Molly were very posh and passed out lemon-ahhd to all the little party-goers (20!!).

So what's coming up, you ask? Teen Game Day on December 18th from 1 - 3 p.m.! Invite your friends, bring your favorite game and come rock out to Guitar Hero. We've also got a volunteer opportunity this Saturday from 10 - 2 p.m. TAG members are invited to come help little kids make crafts for the Old Time Holiday Fair in Fairhaven. We're making paper doll chains, paper airplanes and snowflakes. fun!!

Election Day is tomorrow!

Election day is tomorrow. If you're under 18, you can't vote, but you can still be involved and you are still a part of this exciting election no matter who you support or don't support. Here are a few interesting websites where your favorite YA authors and teens in general show their support for the candidates:

YA for Obama

YA for McCain

Also, don't forget about our teen events later this week!

NaNoWriMo Writing Club
Thursdays from 3 - 4 p.m.
WRITE A BOOK IN A MONTH! I'm 1000 words in so far; this is tougher than I thought it would be. Join up with fellow writers every Thursday to give each other support, play fun writerly games and brainstorm together.

TAG Meeting
Friday, November 7 from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
We'll play games, make plans for future teen events and talk about books, movies, etc. See you there!

Like to write?? Join our writing club!

Calling all 6th - 9th graders!! The Millicent Library is starting a Writing Club in November to celebrate National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo). We'll be using resources from the Young Writer's Program at NanoWriMo where you can sign up for an account. We'll each set a word count goal for the month of November and try to each write a short novel/graphic novel/comic book/manga book, etc. Sounds fun to me!



I'm writing a book, too. So far the working title is:

How I fell in love, made friends and conquered the world: A user's guide
by Laura Gardner

What do you think??




Hope to see you at our first meeting on November 6th at 3 p.m.!

HAPPY TEEN READ WEEK!!

It was great to see so many of you at our Movie today, The Little Vampire. Don't forget to show up tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. for our COMICS + MANGA WORKSHOP with Andy Fish and Veronica Hebard.

SEE YOU THERE!

Teen Read Week is coming!

Mark your calendars! Teen Read Week: Books with Bite is coming in only 1 month! Here are the events that the Millicent Library has planned...

Wednesday, October 15 from 4:30 – 6 p.m....we’ll show The Little Vampire, a fun movie (based on a book!) about a young boy who befriends a vampire (rated PG).

Thursday, October 16, which is an early release day for Fairhaven public schools, the Friends of the Library group is sponsoring a Comics + Manga Workshop at 12:30 p.m. If you like graphic novels and manga, come learn from two real graphic novel artists, Andy Fish and Veronica Hebard. You won’t want to miss it so sign up!

Friday, October 17 at 4 p.m. we're having a Vampire/Halloween Party! We may have a mystery murder theme, too if our TAG members get it together. Fun times... :)

Don't forget our regularly scheduled TAG meeting next Tuesday, September 23 (a.k.a. Nadine's birthday!). I also hope to see some of you this Saturday at our Harry Potter movie at 1 p.m. We're showing Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. oooh...

HAPPY BACK TO SCHOOL!

Fairhaven students returned to school this week. It's been quite a bit quieter in the library ever since.

So how was it?

I want to hear all about it at our first TAG meeting of the 2008 - 2009 school year on Tuesday, September 9 at 4 p.m. I'll have some special snacks to celebrate your return to school. We're going to plan out our fall events (including Teen Read Week!) and talk about our ideas for helping out in the library.

see you there!

Just when you think you've got a handle on things...

they change!

We're holding a Harry Potter Movie Series here at the library to get ready for the 6th movie's release on November 21, 2008 but then the studio went and changed the release date to July 17, 2009! (don't worry, we're still showing the movies starting September 6th at 1 p.m.)

Why the change, you ask?

One rumor is that studio execs were worried about the Twilight movie release eclipsing the release Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. see mtv article for more

Another rumor is that producers don't want viewers to be put off by Daniel Radcliff's other starring role, a Broadway play which involves nudity.

But the most likely reason is simply that somebody wants to make more money and summer blockbusters are the best bet for $$$$. how annoying.

Oh, well. We'll be watching all 5 HP movies on Saturdays this fall anyway.

In the meantime, here's a preview for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. enjoy!

Musings on kissing a goat...

So today I kissed a goat. It really wasn't so bad! It reminded me a bit of kissing my dog, Fielder. The goat's name was S'more. He tried to get away, but I planted one on the side of his face anyway. Why did I kiss a goat, you ask? The answer is that I was keeping a promise. I promised the children of Fairhaven that I would kiss a goat if they read over 2000 hours...and so far we have 2023 hours recorded! I also got to announce that we are getting a WATER BUFFALO for a family through Heifer International thanks to all your reading. Good work

Today was the Teddy Bear Parade and there were over 150 children and 100 adults there to march around town with their teddy bears. Do I have the best job in the world or what?

A BIG THANK YOU to all the TAG teens who helped out today. You were great! Bria, Nadine, Hailey, Kelsey, Tori...I really couldn't have done it without you. Also, big thanks to Alderbrook Farms for bringing the goats and sheep (yes, there were sheep, too!). Wow, what a great day!

Summer!

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm starting to get sad about the approaching end of summer. :( Things have been crazy at the library all summer with the summer reading program, but I'd really like the summer to last a bit longer.

This week on Teen Tuesday we had our GAME DAY at the library, which was lots of fun. We played Guitar Hero on the big screen and had a few intense matches of Frogger, as well.

Next week is our last Teen Tuesday and we'll be making duct tape wallets or cell phone holders! I have all different colors of duct tape...should be fun!

Here are a few links on duct tape crafts:

http://www.ducttapecreations.com/

http://ducttapefashion.com/

And a YouTube video in case you can't make it next week:

Pictures from the Twilight Party!

We ironed on our "team edward" or "team jacob" letters. Tori decided she liked them both!

Bria got creative with the back of her shirt, too!

Here are the fabulous t-shirts we created!

To see more pictures from this party, go to my Flickr set.

Twilight Party!

Thanks to all of you who came to our Twilight Party celebrating the upcoming release of Breaking Dawn! We made Team Edward/Team Jacob t-shirts and a couple tried out making Cullen Body Glitter (or Edward's Sunscreen as Nadine so aptly put it!). We listened to music that inspired Stephenie Meyer to write the books and watched a few of the previews on the big screen. Oh, and we ate bleeding cupcakes and drank Bella's Blushing Punch.

Fun times!

Pictures to come...

Teen Tuesday: PARTY!!!

Next Tuesday, July 29th join Laura at the Millicent Library at 3 p.m. for a party celebrating the release of the newest book in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer! Breaking Dawn is the 4th book in the series and will be released on August 2nd. Fans of the book, vampire fans or anyone who's interested in having a good time is invited! We'll be making t-shirts (are you Team Edward or Team Jacob?), Cullen body glitter and duct tape roses. We'll listen to music that inspired Meyer to write the book and we'll eat Bleeding Cupcakes and Blushing Punch.

Don't miss it!

What do you think?

For those of you who have read some of the Twilight series, what do you think of Edward and Bella? (I have my own opinions, but I'm staying silent for now...)

Don't forget to put the Twilight/Breaking Dawn release party on your calendar!! It's July 29 at 3 p.m. Breaking Dawn comes out on August 2nd. Twilight the movie will be released in December...just 5 months from now.

Being silly

Being silly
Originally uploaded by millicentlibraryteens

Thanks to everyone who came to our game night last night! We had a really great time playing Guitar Hero, Frogger, Mancala, The Game of Life, Cranium and TWISTER! We'll have another one again soon!

Click on the link above to see more pictures from the game night!

Happy Summer Break!

Today is the last day of school here in Fairhaven...CONGRATULATIONS! I hope you all enjoy your summer lots and lots...and that you come see me at the library for TAG meetings, Teen Tuesday events (Movies, Game Night, Breaking Dawn release party and more...see the Millicent Library calendar for more details) or just to come in and check out a book.

If you come in anytime in the next week, though, you might be sad to see that I won't be there. I'm on vacation from June 12 (today) and won't be at work again until Friday, June 20th. Hopefully I'll see all of you at the TAG meeting on the 20th at 2:30 p.m.

In the meantime, enjoy the sun, have some fun and don't forget to keep reading! I want to hear all about what you read at our next meeting. Oh, and the next time you're in the library, be sure to check out the awesome Wild Reads display that Kelsey and Bay put together. Thanks so much, girls!

TAG meeting minutes

Thanks to everyone who made yesterday's meeting such a success! 15 teens were present to eat food, play a fun game, talk about books, music and movies and plan our upcoming Game Night.
Here are some things that happened at the meeting in case you couldn't come:

• Laura gave out jobs so she doesn't go insane. Jackie will be taking attendance; Rachel is the new phone junkie calling people about upcoming events; Tori and Shay are in charge of keeping noise under control (somewhat) and we even have awesome volunteers to help set up and clean up.
• Teens also signed up to help out at the Pokemon Party that the library is holding on Saturday, June 28th at 10 a.m. If you weren't at yesterday's meeting and you want to help out with this, email Laura!
• Our second Interview video was recorded! Bay, Hailey, Matt and Adam interviewed Erica, one of our library's fine circulation assistants. I promise to upload the video tonight!
• Rachel and Bre started creating a Game Night flyer; our FIRST GAME NIGHT is planned for June 26th from 3 - 5 p.m. in the library auditorium (downstairs). I really need all of your help in planning and promoting this!
• We also looked at all the new books and a bunch of them got checked out

Our next meeting is Friday, June 20th at 2:30 p.m. I'll be on vacation from June 12 - 19; see you when I get back!