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March events/New volunteer widget (on the top right!) —>>>

Posted on March 2nd, 2010 by Becky.
Categories: All posts, Events, Teen Volunteers.

Attention Teen Volunteers! We have a new spot to check for monthly volunteer opportunities — look at the top right of the blog for “Teen Volunteer Opportunities” by the blue star.

At the beginning of each month, check this box — I’ll link to a form full of events you can help with. For March, be sure to check out our special program Tunes & Tales on March 27.

As always, you can also use the linked form to choose your own hours to help with shelving (and help with special projects if needed). If you choose your own hours, I’ll email you to confirm.

Be sure to mark your calendar! :) 

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Somehow it’s February already…here’s the volunteer scoop!

Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by Becky.
Categories: All posts, Events, Teen Volunteers.

Well, the groundhog is out looking for his shadow, and we still have another month of children’s events that could use your help. CLICK HERE for this month’s list. Fill out your name, contact info, and which events you want to help with.

You can also use this form to choose your own hours to help with shelving (and help with special projects if needed). If you choose your own hours, I’ll email you to confirm.

Be sure to mark your calendar!

Never volunteered before? No worries! Print off a Teen Volunteer Application, then check our online calendar for the next Teen Volunteer Training.

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New year = new volunteer opportunities!

Posted on January 4th, 2010 by Becky.
Categories: All posts, Events, Teen Volunteers.

Welcome to the new decade! Here at the Library, we’re gearing up for a great winter, and we still have many children’s events that could use your help. CLICK HERE for this month’s list. Fill out your name, contact info, and which events you want to help with, and I’ll get in touch with you.

You can also use this form to choose your own hours to help with shelving (and help with special projects if needed).

Be sure to mark your calendar!

Never volunteered before? No worries! Print off a Teen Volunteer Application, then check our online calendar for the next Teen Volunteer Training.

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December volunteer opportunities!

Posted on December 3rd, 2009 by Becky.
Categories: All posts, Events, Teen Volunteers.

It’s time again for a new month of Teen Volunteer opportunities at the Library! CLICK HERE for a list of children’s events that need your help. Fill out your name, contact info, and which events you want to help with, and I’ll get in touch with you.

You can also use this form to choose your own hours to help with shelving (and help with special projects if needed).

Be sure to mark your calendar!

Not sure what the heck I’m talking about?! Print off a Teen Volunteer Application, then check our online calendar for the next Teen Volunteer Training.

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November volunteer opportunities

Posted on November 5th, 2009 by Becky.
Categories: All posts, Events, Teen Volunteers.

Calling all Teen Volunteers - interested in helping out at the Library this month? CLICK HERE for a list of children’s events that need your help! Fill out your name, contact info, and which events you want to help with, and I’ll get in touch with you. Be sure to mark your calendar!

Want to help out in other ways? You can make your own schedule, working 1 or 2 hours at a time in the Youth department. Sometimes we have special projects, but when we don’t, we can always use help shelving. If interested, email me (Becky) at boneil@westervillelibrary.org.

Not sure what the heck I’m talking about?! Check our online calendar for the next Teen Volunteer Training, and pick up a Teen Volunteer Application next time you’re in the library.

 

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Summer volunteers, take our survey!

Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Becky.
Categories: All posts, Teen Volunteers.

Calling all summer volunteers! I know it’s been awhile, but I’d love your feedback. CLICK HERE to fill out a survey about your volunteer experience in the great summer of 2009. C’mon, you know you love surveys! :)

Your answers are much appreciated and will help make next summer even better!!

 

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Games That Give

Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Becky.
Categories: All posts, Gaming, Random Fun, Web sites to watch.

Fess up…you know you’re addicted to online games. All you have to do is start one and then it becomes a competition of unstoppable proportions…you just need ONE MORE TRY and you will WIN (err, maybe that’s just what happens to me when I play Solitaire!). So how cool is it that there is now a way to get your fix AND donate to a good cause?

If you’re not familiar with DoSomething.org, I highly recommend checking it out, especially if you’re into helping others and making a difference. As they say here,

We’ve partnered with GamesThatGive, a new website that generates money for charity (us) when you play their free online games:

How does it work? Sponsors advertise on the games, and 70% of every dollar they spend goes to Do Something! Check out GamesThatGive.net and tell some friends about this fun new way to help Do Something change the world.

Sounds cool, huh? I’ll be checking it out just as soon as I beat Solitaire… ;)

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Going on an adventure

Posted on September 1st, 2009 by Becky.
Categories: All posts, Books.

Hey everyone! I’m going on an adventure to Europe and won’t be posting for a couple weeks. Hooray for travel!! Have you ever been on any cool trips that you remember fondly, or do you have some places on your wish list? I don’t get to travel as much as I’d like to, but that is where the wonder of Armchair Travel comes in. What’s Armchair Travel, you ask? All you need is a comfy chair, preferably some snacks (though they are not entirely necessary), and, most importantly, some books to take you away!

Check out these exciting going-on-an-adventure titles:

The great call of China by Cynthea Liu - In the latest installment of the S.A.S.S. series (Students Across the Seven Seas), teen Cece travels to China to find out about her roots, her birth parents, and maybe a little romance.

13 little blue envelopes by Maureen Johnson - When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.

Whirligig by Paul Fleischman - While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he causes, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.

Want more? Click here!

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Teen Volunteers’ End-of-Summer Party!

Posted on August 11th, 2009 by Becky.
Categories: All posts.

We want to thank the teen volunteers who sacrificed their well-deserved hours in the sun to help out at the Summer Reading Program table this year! With over 3,400 kids and teens registered and over 30,000 hours logged, we’d have to say that this year’s SRP was a success!

So, join us this Thursday, August 13th from 6pm to 8pm for food and games. Feel free to bring your friends and your famous tuna casserole to share! To find out more, visit our Events calendar.

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Percy Jackson comes to life!

Posted on August 7th, 2009 by Becky.
Categories: All posts.

The Lightning Thief is coming to the big screen in the new movie based on the hit book. Read the series or check out the trailer!

Looking for something a bit more lighthearted? Check out I love you, Beth Cooper, in theaters now.

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New Teen Books

Posted on July 28th, 2009 by Becky.
Categories: All posts.

Bleach. [Vol.] 30, There is no heart without you / [story and art by Tite Kubo ; English adaptation, Lance Caselman ; translation, Joe Yamazaki].

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They never came back / Caroline B. Cooney.

cover imageWhen fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tony Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life. (read more)

The Shadow Project / Herbie Brennan.

cover imageA young English thief stumbles on, and subsequently is recruited for, a super-secret operation that trains teenagers in remote viewing and astral projection techniques in order to engage in spying. (read more)

The life of glass / Jillian Cantor.

cover imageThroughout her freshman year of high school, fourteen-year-old Melissa struggles to hold onto memories of her deceased father, cope with her mother's return to dating, get along with her sister, and sort out her feelings about her best friend, Ryan. (read more)

The girl with the mermaid hair / Delia Ephron.

cover imageA vain teenaged girl is obsessed with beauty and perfection until she uncovers a devastating family secret. (read more)

The dark Divine / Bree Despain.

cover imageGrace Divine, almost seventeen, learns a dark secret when her childhood friend--practically a brother--returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small Minnesota town. (read more)

Tangled / Carolyn Mackler.

cover imageThe lives of four very different teenagers become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined after a short stay at a Caribbean resort. (read more)

Before i fall / Lauren Oliver.

cover imageAfter she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself. (read more)

The Lonely Hearts Club / Elizabeth Eulberg.

cover imageFed up with boys and the way they have treated her and her friends, high school junior Penny Lane--named after the Beatles song--forms a club whose members vow to stop dating, but the repercussions are surprising. (read more)

The Line / Teri Hall.

cover imageRachel thinks that she and her mother are safe working for Ms. Moore at her estate close to The Line, an invisible border of the Unified States, but when Rachel has an opportunity to Cross into the forbidden zone, she is both frightened and intrigued. (read more)

Riding invisible / written by Sandra alonzo ; illustrated by Nathan Huang.

cover imageAfter his older brother Will attacks his horse, Shy, Yancey runs away into the desert. Follow his adventures as he returns home to face life with a brother who has "conduct disorder." (read more)

Hex Hall / Rachel Hawkins.

cover imageWhen Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, she is exiled to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters. (read more)

Northward to the moon / Polly Horvath.

cover imageWhen her stepfather loses his job in Saskatchewan, Jane and the rest of the family set off on a car trip, ending up in Nevada after improbably being given a bag full of possibly stolen money. (read more)

The Pickle King / Rebecca Promitzer.

cover imageDuring an endlessly rainy summer in the town of Elbow, twelve-year-old Bea and her misfit friends solve an unlikely mystery involving an unidentified dead man who is missing an eye, an evil surgeon, a ring shaped like an old castle, a bag of smelly intestines, and a helpful ghost. (read more)

Happyface / by Stephen Emond.

cover imageAfter going through traumatic times, a troubled, socially awkward teenager moves to a new school where he tries to reinvent himself. (read more)

Broadway lights : a novel / by Jen Calonita.

cover imageHollywood teen starlet Katilin Burke moves to New York for the summer to appear in a Broadway show, all the while worrying about her boyfriend back in Los Angeles, her handsome new co-star, and the offstage drama going on around her. (read more)

The amazing Spider-man 24/7.

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Hulk. 3, Hulk no more / writer, Jeph Loeb ; penciler, Ed Mcguinness ; inkers, Dexter Vines, Mark Farmer, Tom Palmer ; colors, Jason Keigh and Guru eFX, Dan Brown, Chris Sotomayor.

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Forget-her-nots / by Amy Brecount White.

cover imageAt a Charlottesville, Virginia, boarding school, fourteen-year-old Laurel realizes that she shares her deceased mother's connection with flowers, but as she begins to learn their ancient language and share it with other students, she discovers powers that are beyond her control. (read more)

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Speak Up for Your Library!

Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Becky.
Categories: All posts, Books, Homework Help, Web sites to watch.

This year’s Summer Reading Program theme is all about expressing yourself. With the proposed cuts to library funding, now is the time to make your voice heard!

What does the library mean to you? A safe place to hang out after school? Somewhere you can go for help with your homework? Your only source for new books? The first place you could access the Internet?

Let your local legislators know how important the library is to you! Email Governor Strickland today, or contact the following state representatives to share your thoughts. You can make a difference!

Not sure what to write? Check out this sample letter.

Senator Bill Harris, President of the Senate
614-466-8086

Senator David Goodman, 3rd District
614-466-8064

Representative Kevin Bacon, 21st District
614-466-6030

Representative Marian Harris, 19th District
614-466-4847

Representative Nancy Garland, 20th District
614-644-6002

Representative Kris Jordan, 2nd District
614-644-6711

For more information on the budget proposal, please refer to this article from Library Journal, or the Save Ohio Libraries website.

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Harry Potter Giveaway!

Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Becky.
Categories: All posts.

It’s almost time for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to be released in paperback, and guess what? Scholastic is giving away paperback sets of books 5, 6, and 7! Even better, local librarian/teacher/superhero Ms. Yingling, of Ms. Yingling Reads, has a chance for you to enter to win! Check out her blog or click directly to this post for the details. Good luck!

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Summer Reading 2009 is almost here!

Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Becky.
Categories: All posts, Books, Events, Movies.

Check out our homemade video promo for the 2009 Summer Reading Program, made for you with love by the WPL Youth Librarians! Got a hankering to make your own? Be sure to pick up info on Kick-off Day, Thursday, June 11. You’ll have a chance to register for summer reading, get a sign-up prize, work on some cool activities (including appearing in your own “Boogie Heads” video) and find out about our “Starring You! Movie Maker” workshops and movie showing night. You won’t want to miss it! See you on June 11th!

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Book Trailer - Gone by Michael Grant

Posted on May 25th, 2009 by Becky.
Categories: All posts, Books, Movies.

Check out this creepy book trailer for the book Gone. What if one day, everyone over the age of 14 was just…gone?

Interested? Find it at the Library!

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