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NaNoWriMo- National Novel Writing Month Challenge

This fall we are banding together to encourage each other to write a book!
  • Join the classroom and follow the online guide to writing a book
  • Write a book paragraph by paragraph with everyone else
  • Get encouragement and feedback while you write
IF YOU FINISH YOUR BOOK BY DECEMBER 1ST you get to DESIGN your own cover and BIND your book here at the library with our binding machine!

Go to ywp.nanowrimo.org and register for free. Then join the APLYA classroom with the code SPNEWSPS so you can write with us!

The participant who writes the most words by the end of November will also recieve a NaNoWriMo pencil pouch stuffed with goodies to help them write the whole year!

Teen Programs

All regularly scheduled Teen Programs are free of charge and open to those in 6th grade or higher

In summer, regular teen meetings and clubs stop for the Summer Reading Program.
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Early Release Days- Every time the schools have early release Wednesdays, 1:45 PM, 6th grade and above
  • On early release days there will be a video game and board games provided to play downstairs in the meeting room. 
  •  A free snack/meal provided by Catholic Charities for anyone who shows up!

Maker's Club- First Mondays in months that school is in session, 6:00 PM
  • Join us for varying making activities, challenges, and competitions. Each month's activity will be announced after the previous club meeting. No sign up necessary!
  • OCTOBER 7TH ACTIVITY- Do you hate those boring thrift store paintings that seem to be laying about in every second hand shop? Well we are going to liven them up with our own crazy creatures this month! Paintings and supplies will be provided.
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Summer Reading Program

For 8 weeks through June & July we help fight summer learning loss with our reading program. We offer weekly incentives for meeting reading goals and have programs at least every other week.

This year we celebrate a UNIVERSE OF STORIES with activities that explore the final frontier, real and fictional! 

We ask that teens read a minimum of 3 hours per week. That’s only about 25 minutes a day.

Highlights

Prizes for weekly participation- weekly slips earns you a scratch off ticket, and you could win one of several kinds of prizes. May the odds be ever in your favor!

Weekly prize drawing for a swag bag filled with goodies.

Grand Prize drawing at the end of the summer for tickets to Worlds of Fun and a $20 gas card!!! You can get o
ne bonus entry per week for a book report at least four sentences long on what you read that week.

Completing 6 weeks means you get a ticket to the Finale Party! The Finale Party will once again be at the YMCA, where you can swim, eat pizza, have ice cream, or play games.

Teen Resources

Great websites for kids - Some games and some reference for all school aged kids. 

Using Primary Resources
Student Research Center
Look for more resources from the State Library of Kansas
401 Kansas Avenue
Atchison, KS 66002

Location Map
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Phone: 913-367-1902
Fax: 913-367-2717
email: askus@atchisonlibrary.org