Thursday, August 20, 2009

Cast your vote for the Teens' Top Ten

Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on Support Teen Literature Day during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Readers ages twelve to eighteen can vote at www.ala.org/teenstopten anytime between Aug. 24 and Sept. 18; the winners will be announced in a webcast featuring WWE Superstars and Divas during Teen Read Week.

Note: You can't vote yet, but you can check out the list of nominations.

September programs

Summer's almost over, but we are still planning teen programs for you! Patterson will have a different fun activity every Thursday in September at 4 p.m. Groves is starting a new book club called BLTs--that stands for Book Lovin' Teens--which will meet on Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. Come to the kickoff party on Thursday, September 10 at 4:30.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Sponsors

We just wanted to take a minute to thank all of the sponsors of the 2009 Teen Summer Reading Program.

Friends of the Library (be sure to check out their sale in November)
Taco Villa
Rosa's Cafe
Freebirds
Jimmy John's
Keva Juice
Sonic
Main Event
Movies 16
50th Street Caboose

Prize Winners

Here are a list of the prize winners for the Main Event Extravaganza:

Staples gift card:
Sernia W.
Elyssa O.
Caleb D.

Game Stop gift card:
Zack S.
Mackenzie O.
Austin A.

Main Event gift card:
Zack W.
Matthew M.
Alexandra H.

Barnes & Noble gift card
Mariah C.
Victoria C.
Brenna S.

Mall Money
Mykala G.
Jakefee F.
Nathan K.

IPOD shuffle
Joseph W.
Elisabeth B.
Zipporah-Jo W.

Congratulations to all the winners! Thank you all so much for participating in our Teen Summer Reading Program. Good luck in school.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Main Event Extravaganza

Thursday, August 13 will be our last Teen Extravaganza. If you have not turned in your third game card, be sure to do that by noon on Wednesday (8/12) in order to receive a pass to Main Event. For those who have received a pass to Main Event, we will meet at the tables near the bowling lanes. We are going to start bowling at 11 a.m. After we bowl for an hour, we will eat pizza and follow that up with games (each teen will receive a $10 game card). You will want to bring additional money if you are going to play laser tag, golf, or play additional games. We will also have our last prize drawing for main event gift cards, mall money, and more. See you then.

Family Fun Day!!

Join us at the Patterson Branch library tomorrow (August 11) for Family Fun Day!!!! Everyone is welcome to attend their end of summer bash. There will be a project from Home Depot starting at 5:30 p.m. Bounce obstacle courses, food, and games will start at 6 p.m. Call 767-3300 for more information.

Friday, August 7, 2009

Video Game Vortex: The Return

Join us for video games and refreshments Tuesday, August 11. We will meet in the Mahon Community Room from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. There will also be board games but feel free to bring any PS2 or Wii games from home to share with your friends.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Thursday programs

Create friendship bracelets at Patterson at 3 p.m. on Thursday. Groves has the mysterious-sounding "Dino-licious" program, also at 3 p.m. on Thursday.

Movie this afternoon at Mahon

Maybe "Spiderwick Chronicles," maybe "Kung Fu Panda." Starts at 2 p.m.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The best book you've read this summer

What's the best book you've read this summer?

Monday, July 27, 2009

This week's programs

Thursday, come play chess at Patterson at 3 p.m. or head to Groves at 3 p.m. to play a variety of video games and board games.

Movies 16 Extravaganza Prize Drawing Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the prize drawing at Movies 16.

Sarah M. from Groves
Julia T. from Groves
Albert P. from Mahon
Andrew M. from Mahon
Nikki B. from Patterson
Dana T. from Patterson
Alexandra H., Pedro L., and Rebecca C. won Movie $

Prizes included gift cards to Best Buy, Hastings and Movie Money. We will have another prize drawing at our Main Event Extravaganza in April. There will be chances to win Mall $, Main Event gift cards and more. The more game cards you complete, the greater the chance for winning.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

We'll see you at the movies!

The movie extravaganza is tonight at Movies 16 (the one near Best Buy and Lowe's). Harry Potter starts at 6:05, Ice Age starts at 6:30, and Up starts at 6:40. Look for us in the lobby; we will have the movie tickets.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Dungeons & Dragons program Friday and Saturday

There's still time to sign up to play D&D from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. this Friday and Saturday at the Groves Library. Don't worry if you're a beginner, we'll teach you how to play. If you would like to sign up, or if you have any questions, call Ed at 775-2849.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Movie Matinee

Help us pick the movie that will be shown Tuesday, August 4 at 2:00 p.m. at Mahon Library. Pick from the list below.

Coraline
Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Transformers
Hotel for Dogs
Pink Panther 2

We will also be serving refreshments and you can suggest some of your favorite movie candy. Maybe you like Junior Mints or Milk Duds. The candy that gets the most suggestion just may be served at the program.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Two teen programs today

Play Dance Dance Revolution at 3 p.m. at Patterson, or watch the movie "Inkheart" at 3 p.m. at Groves.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Movies 16 Extravaganza

Our next Extravaganza is Thursday, July 23 at Movies 16 located at 5721 58th St. A library staff member (wearing a red time twistin shirt) will be waiting in the lobby to exchange your pass for a movie ticket. The employees at movies 16 will not be able to exchange your pass for a ticket.

Here are the movie options:
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince -- 6:05 p.m.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2D)-- 6:30 p.m.
Up (2D) -- 6:40 p.m.

To guarantee a spot at any of these movies, please RSVP by posting to the blog, calling 775-2838, or by sending an email to mahonps@gmail.com.

If you have not completed your second game card, remember that you must do so before noon on Wednesday, July 22. If your friends or family members are going to be coming to watch Harry Potter, they may want to purchase their tickets in advance because the show may sell out.

See you next week!

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Prize winners

Congratulations to the winners of the prize drawing at the Caboose.


Madison B. from Groves
Delacey B. from Mahon
Joseph W. from Mahon
Jeremy N. from Mahon
Nelson P. from Patterson
Ryan F. from Groves
Jessie C. from Mahon
Krista K. from Patterson
Amanda M. from Groves

Prizes included three $25 Caboose gift cards, three $15 Target gift cards, and three $15 Candy Wrapper gift cards. There are still more prize drawings to come!

Upcoming program: Who Killed Fizban?

Join us at Mahon for a magical game of Clue with wizards and witches. Move around the giant game board, gather clues, and guess who did it with what weapon and in which room of the castle.
Food, drink, prizes and fun abound. The program will be on Tuesday, July 21 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Mahon Community Room. Registration is required--call the library at 775-2838. Open to middle school and high school students only.

Happy 4th of July!

Hope you enjoy your holiday. We will be closed on July 3rd and 4th.

Next week's teen programs are:

Memory Keepers
Groves Branch
Tuesday, July 7, 3 p.m.
We will be making memory boxes to hold some of our favorite keepsakes.

Mosaic Tiles
Patterson Branch
Thursday, July 9, 2 p.m.

Video Game Vortex
Mahon Library
Thursday, July 9, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Harry Potter

How do you feel about Harry? Love him? Hate him? Will you be standing in line for the new movie on opening night?

Thanks to everyone who came to the Caboose. We hope you had a good time.

Monday, June 29, 2009

Iron Pastry, the conclusion

Winners in the veggie round were:



1st place - Jeremie











2nd place - Damodrick








3rd place - Janessa











The third round of competition was candy dioramas. They were difficult to photograph--I may add some of the photos later. Jasmine was the first place winner, followed by Eric in second place and Hajar in third.

Jasmine, Alex and Jeremie moved on to the the final round. Each of them had an entire cake to decorate. Jasmine took first place with her cross cake. Alex came in second with his longhorn cake. Someone (not saying who!) accidentally deleted the photo of Alex's cake from the computer. We are trying to get the photo back. Sorry, Alex! Jeremie's heart cake came in third. Thanks to everyone who participated, judged, and helped out.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The winning cookies


First place: Abram

Second place: Alex

Third place: Sarah

Honorable mention: Betrice

Iron Pastry: the cookie creations





































Iron Pastry photos

Phase one: The contestants prepare their cookie creations.





Project Bookbag photos, part 3



Project Bookbag photos, part 2




Project Bookbag photos





Caboose Extravaganza

For those of you who have turned in your first game card (deadline was today at noon), we are going to meet at the 50th Street Caboose tomorrow at 5:00 pm. We are going to meet in the party room (near the games). We are going to order food as soon as we get there so that we will have plenty of time to play. We will provide some tokens but be sure to bring additional money if you want to play a lot of games.

Here are the food options that we can select from:

Hamburger, Cheeseburger, Chicken Fried Steak, Chicken Strips, 2 Green Chicken Enchiladas, 2 Cheese Enchiladas, 2 Beef Enchiladas, 2 Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas, Beef or Chicken Fajitaladas, "Original" Trainload Salad, Beef or Chicken El Grande, Chicken Cado Salad.

There will not be room in the party room for friends or family but after we eat, they can meet up with us in the game area.

See you tomorrow at the caboose.

Prizes

Someone asked a few posts back if the prizes in the drawing were the same each time or different. They are different every time.

Did everyone who went to Iron Pastry recover from all that sugar?

Monday, June 22, 2009

Turn in game cards by Wednesday

Turn in your first summer reading game card by noon on Wednesday, July 24 in order to receive a pass to the first extravaganza, which will be at the 50th Street Caboose on Thursday, June 25 from 5 to 7 p.m. We will meet at the Caboose, which is at 5027 50th Street. Dinner and game tokens will be provided. You may want to bring money for additional games. We will also have a prize drawing.

Photos from the Project Bookbag program will be posted on the blog soon. Thanks to all of you for making this such a great summer!

Iron Pastry

The Iron Pastry battle has returned! Come to Mahon on Tuesday (June 23) at 3 p.m. to decorate cookies and cupcakes. It will be a great program.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Prize Drawing Winners

Congratulations to:

Caleb C. from Mahon
Joelle G. from Groves
Acy M. from Patterson

They won a $10 card to Main Event (must be redeemed this month) and a free Burrito or Salad from FreeBirds.

We will have more prize drawings next week at our first Extravaganza.

Monday, June 15, 2009

This week

On Tuesday, decorate a bookbag at our "Project Bookbag" program at Mahon, 3 p.m. We will supply materials. There will also be other crafts, like gummy bear jewelry.

On Thursday, play Guitar Hero at Patterson at 3 p.m. or watch the movie "Twilight" at Groves at 3 p.m.

There's still a little over a week to complete your first Summer Reading game card and get a pass to our first extravaganza at the 50th Street Caboose on June 25. If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late! Just come to one of the libraries and ask to sign up for Teen Summer Reading.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Candy Sushi Creations






Created by Krystal










Created by Abram













Created by T.K.














Created by Rebeccas S.












Created by Jareth
















Creatd by Rachel & Ariana













Created by Keauni













Created by Aniya












Created by Afnan














Created by Angel















Created by Caleb C.











Created by Zack W.