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The last Early Release Activity of the school year is this Wednesday, the 12th. So if you're in Middle School and wanna hang out, come to the meeting room at the library where we'll have snacks and games to play!
School ends this Friday for the public schools, so the last day for Homework Help will be Thursday. If you need a paper proof read, or help studying, come on in between 2:30-5:00 PM Mon-Thursday
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Hey teens from 6th-12th grade! Here's December!
The Teen Gingerbread Decorating Contest and Holiday party is tomorrow! Come try to win a prize, make a Christmas tree that you can use as an ice cream cone, and enjoy treats and hot chocolate. Sign up at the circulation desk or email teensceneapl@gmail.com There won't be any Anime Club or Gaming Club this month, but they will both start back up in January better than ever! The final early release before holiday break is December 12th, so if you're a middle schooler looking for a place to hang out, come on down to the library. Thanks for an awesome year! There are two opportunities for you to win prizes for your writing skills!
The Profile in Courage Essay Contest for High School Students gives cash prizes up to $10,000 for an essay profiling a person who put the nation's interests above their own. Visit www.jfklibrary.org/essaycontest for requirements and more information. Essays due January 18, 2019. For something more local, the Kansas Voices contest for writers living in Kansas is giving away over $1,000 in prizes. Submit original poetry or prose to the Youth division and you could win $100! Visit www.winfieldarts.org/kansas-voices-writing-contest to submit online or for more info. Deadline is March 8, 2019. Information on both contests is hanging in the Teen Scene. Use Homework Help hours to ask for editing assistance! Next week and the week after the Teen librarian will be attending conferences to get new ideas for programming! This means that the Early Release activity for Oct 24th is cancelled, but will be back Nov 7th. Homework Help will not be manned the 24th, 25th, 31st, or the 1st of November, but the librarians at the circulation desk will always be there to help you with school needs! Boys Gaming Club will still be held on the 23rd at 5:00 PM.  This month at Gaming Club some special guests from TabletopLoot.com will be coming in with dice and expertise to get you guys started on your own D&D campaigns! Make sure you're there to roll a character and get advice on how to play and start a group. All boys from 6th-12th Grade are welcome to come at 5:00 PM on the 23rd. Don't miss this extra special club meeting!
Teen Read week is coming up fast, and the submissions for the Book Review Competition are due on October 3rd. Turn them in at the library or at the email teensceneapl@gmail.com, and you could get your review published in the Atchison Globe and win a prize bag full of cool stuff!
Reviews must be 200-250 words in length and can be about a book or a series of books you have read recently. Include a short description of what the book/book series is about, and then you can mention things like; what you like about the writing style, why you connected with the book/series, what made the book exciting, what you may have not liked about the book/series, and why others should read the book/series. Remember: No Big Spoilers! Include Your name, your grade, the book/series title, and the book/series author SEPARATE from the word count. Good Luck! Thank you to the awesome teens at the first meeting of the Book Club. Your discussions about banning books and freedom of speech were amazing and impressive!
Next month on October 16th the Book Club will be discussing horror books! Read a horror novel, old or new, and be ready to discuss what makes a book scary, what you find scary, and what those fears tell us about our society. We look forward to hearing your opinions! Teen Read Week is October 7-13, and as recognition for all the reading you do, the Atchison Public Library is having a Book Review Competition. The three best reviews will not only earn the writer a prize bag packed full of local prizes, but will also be published that week in the Atchison Globe! You must be in grades 6-12 to submit a book review, and it needs to be turned in to the Atchison Public Library by October 3rd. Submissions can also be emailed to teensceneapl@gmail.com. Reviews must be 200-250 words in length and can be about a book or a series of books you have read recently. Include a short description of what the book/book series is about, and then you can mention things like; what you like about the writing style, why you connected with the book/series, what made the book exciting, what you may have not liked about the book/series, and why others should read the book/series. Remember: No Big Spoilers! Include Your name, your grade, the book/series title, and the book/series author SEPARATE from the word count. Happy Reading!   It only lasts a week, but we will be celebrating Banned Books all month this September in the Teen Scene. We have books that have been banned in libraries across the country on display to check out, and when you take them home you also get a banned books bookmark! Make sure you make it to TEEN THEMED BOOK CLUB on September 18th at 3:00 to discuss your favorite book that has been banned.
The first meeting of the Teen Themed Book Club is on September 18th at 3:00 PM right after school. The first month's theme is BANNED BOOKS. Read a YA book that has been banned at some point in the past, and come ready to discuss why it was banned, why you liked it, why you disliked it, and/or whether or not you think it should have been BANNED. Here's a list of banned books, and it may surprise you!
Harry Potter Series, JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee The Giver, Lois Lowry Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson I Know why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume The Witches, Roald Dahl The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie Drama, Raina Telgemeier It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health, Robie H. Harris The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman Lord of the Flies, William Golding The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky Go Ask Alice, Anonymous The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger 1984 , George Orwell Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton Looking for Alaska, John Green The Call of the Wild, Jack London The Bermudez Triangle, Maureen Johnson Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston |
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