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Schedule:
Wednesday, June 16th, 2:00 - 4:00 - Program Kick-off
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2:00 - 4:00 - Bubbles!
Wednesday, June 30th, 2:00 - 4:00 - Tales of the Sea
Wednesday, July 7th, 2:00 - 4:00 - Sand Art
Friday, July 9th, 7 PM - 7 AM - Pirate Lock-in
Wednesday, July 14th, 2:00 - 4:00 - Prize Luau
You can win prizes for reading and for attending programs!
You must participate in the reading challenge and earn at least 5 points to be able to come to the Pirate Lock-in.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Spring Festival 2010
If you missed the Bossier Parish Library's Spring Festival, you missed a lot! Nine teams competed in the scavenger hunt! The technology department received 41 cell phone donations for the Hopeline Drive! Gorilla Joe, the new teen services and technology department mascot, made an appearance, posing with scavenger hunt winners, Miss Bossier City, the library director, the cat in the hat, and a few kids! A famous actress even came out and enjoyed the festival with her daughter! Like I said, if you weren't there, you missed a lot! :)
Scavenger Hunt winners:
1st Place - Nick Smith and Mitch Winters
2nd Place - The Reno Family
3rd Place - Quartacia Moore and Jonathon (last name unknown)
Survey Questions Results:
Favorite Movie:
Madison Lairson - John Tucker Must Die
Kimi Sargent - Disaster Movie
Sally Senn - The Hangover
Erica Falkenstine - Pineapple Express
Chris Jennings - Full Metal Jacket
Favorite Actress:
Madison Lairson - Anne Hathaway
Sally Senn - Julia Roberts
Favorite School Subject:
Tyle Henry - Math
Favorite Band/Artist:
Chelsea Perry - Luna Sea
Quartacia Moore - Flywheel
Heather Hastings - Point of Grace
Nick Smith - Nickelback
Taylor Boutte - Jonas Brothers
Chris Jennings - Slipknot
Favorite Book/Grahpic Novel:
Christa Tucker - Life as we Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Hannah Jones - Harry Potter Series
Eleanor Chandler - Chibi Vampire (graphic novel series)
Favorite Gaming System:
Austin Dobynes - Nintendo Wii
Scavenger Hunt winners:
1st Place - Nick Smith and Mitch Winters
2nd Place - The Reno Family
3rd Place - Quartacia Moore and Jonathon (last name unknown)
Survey Questions Results:
Favorite Movie:
Madison Lairson - John Tucker Must Die
Kimi Sargent - Disaster Movie
Sally Senn - The Hangover
Erica Falkenstine - Pineapple Express
Chris Jennings - Full Metal Jacket
Favorite Actress:
Madison Lairson - Anne Hathaway
Sally Senn - Julia Roberts
Favorite School Subject:
Tyle Henry - Math
Favorite Band/Artist:
Chelsea Perry - Luna Sea
Quartacia Moore - Flywheel
Heather Hastings - Point of Grace
Nick Smith - Nickelback
Taylor Boutte - Jonas Brothers
Chris Jennings - Slipknot
Favorite Book/Grahpic Novel:
Christa Tucker - Life as we Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Hannah Jones - Harry Potter Series
Eleanor Chandler - Chibi Vampire (graphic novel series)
Favorite Gaming System:
Austin Dobynes - Nintendo Wii
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Poetry Submission
Disalignment by Mitch Winters
And how do I back down now? For through my betrayal I've found her.
Her words that both soothe and stab.
My equal and opposite number, standing atop her walls as I do mine.
Hearts surrounded in stone more formidable than the most intimidating of nature's mountains and sunk into fetid, acidic pits born of rejection. Irony jumps to my mind. How odd that we relate on what separates us from the masses. Both of us, not just tossed as trash but dropped to the ground like putrid and smoldering steel, assaulting the senses and melting the flesh of those around us.
Why is it I'm doomed to find happiness in transgression?
Is this what makes men evil? If so, is this what I am?
And above all else, am I in Love?
Would you like to submit your own poetry to be posted in the Bossier Parish Library teen blog? Email questions or submissions to yaservices@bossierlibrary.org!
And how do I back down now? For through my betrayal I've found her.
Her words that both soothe and stab.
My equal and opposite number, standing atop her walls as I do mine.
Hearts surrounded in stone more formidable than the most intimidating of nature's mountains and sunk into fetid, acidic pits born of rejection. Irony jumps to my mind. How odd that we relate on what separates us from the masses. Both of us, not just tossed as trash but dropped to the ground like putrid and smoldering steel, assaulting the senses and melting the flesh of those around us.
Why is it I'm doomed to find happiness in transgression?
Is this what makes men evil? If so, is this what I am?
And above all else, am I in Love?
Would you like to submit your own poetry to be posted in the Bossier Parish Library teen blog? Email questions or submissions to yaservices@bossierlibrary.org!
Goth Girl Rising - Book Review by Chin Chin
Goth Girl Rising by Barry Lyga
The book Goth Girl Rising by Barry Lyga is a book I would recommend for teens who have troubles because of a dead parent or the whole "emo/goth" thing. It's really interesting and is a sequel to the book The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, which is also by Barry Lyga. ( I would recommend this book too.) This book is about Kyra Sellars aka Goth Girl opinions on things after she was sent to a mental institute (like Brentwood) and how much she wanted to take revenge on Fanboy for forgetting her while she was gone for six months. Turned out that he really was trying to communicate with her during the summer but Kyra's dad deleted all the emails. This is a really good book and has a lot of twists and turns. So if you're into the whole Goth Girl taking revenge on a comic fanatic then you'd really love this book!
Book Review by Chin Chin
The book Goth Girl Rising by Barry Lyga is a book I would recommend for teens who have troubles because of a dead parent or the whole "emo/goth" thing. It's really interesting and is a sequel to the book The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, which is also by Barry Lyga. ( I would recommend this book too.) This book is about Kyra Sellars aka Goth Girl opinions on things after she was sent to a mental institute (like Brentwood) and how much she wanted to take revenge on Fanboy for forgetting her while she was gone for six months. Turned out that he really was trying to communicate with her during the summer but Kyra's dad deleted all the emails. This is a really good book and has a lot of twists and turns. So if you're into the whole Goth Girl taking revenge on a comic fanatic then you'd really love this book!
Book Review by Chin Chin
A Whole Nother Story - Book Review by Joe W.
A Whole Nother Story by Dr. Cuthbert Soup
A Whole Nother Story is about a man named Ethan Cheeseman, who is trying to perfect his time-machine, the CVR. He and his kids are on the run from the government agencies who want to get their filthy hands on the time-machine, for reasons that are never fully explained. So Ethan and his chidlren (Jough, Maggie, and Gerard) and his psychic dog, who barks when danger is near, constnatly move from town to town, changing their names and identities.
In their crazy travels, they meet various members of Captain Jibby's Traveling Circus, which has an odd cast of performers: a strong man who hurt his back too bad to lift anything, a fortune-teller with short-term memory loss, a tight-rope walker who had his speaking privileges revoked, and a sword swallower who lost his hand while feeding a tiger. While camping, they also come across a cowboy who wants to be a poet, and is trying to come up with something good enough for the annual poem contest. The Cheeseman family is being pursued by three different companies: one named Plexiwave, which ordered Agents 5, 23, 88, and 207 to take the CVR from the Cheesemans, one whose name is unknown, but they have Agents Aitch Dee and El Kyoo chasing after the Cheeseman family, and a third one who also has no name, but Agents Pavel and Leon (who's a chimpanzee) to use to trail the Cheesemans. All 3 of the coprorations may be on their trail, but the Cheesemans have a reason to risk their lives for the CVR: Olivia Cheeseman (Ethan's late wife) was murdered by Plexiwave so they could get the CVR. Ethan might have been persuaded, but Olivia, realizing that these people would use it for evil, refused any offer, no matter how much money they were wililng to give. That's when Plexiwave realized: the only way to get the CVR would be to get Olivia out of the way. So, she was called in for a doctor's appointment, in which she found that their normal doctor was sick and so a stand-in did the appointment. The stand-in doctor (who was working for Plexiwave, and probably killed the normal doctor) injected her with a drug that was supposed to keep her healthy. But of coure, Plexiwave is evil. The drug made Olivia's health rapidly get worse until one day, when she could live no longer. But in her sickness, she realized what had happened and re-coded the CVR so that even if Plexiwave did get it, they couldn't use it. The only problem was, she never told the new code needed to Ethan. She did write it down, but Ethan only has the first half of the paper. And he can't find the time to test out a bunch of different combinations, due to him constantly having to take apart the CVR and run off to a new town so they don't get caught by any of the 3 corporations. The book seems like a kid's book judging by the cover (and yes, I know that stupid saying) but it's worth reading in to. Considerint that thisis the author's first book, it has a good plotline and cliffhanger ending. It's funny at times as well. So get it. Now.
Review by Joe W.
A Whole Nother Story is about a man named Ethan Cheeseman, who is trying to perfect his time-machine, the CVR. He and his kids are on the run from the government agencies who want to get their filthy hands on the time-machine, for reasons that are never fully explained. So Ethan and his chidlren (Jough, Maggie, and Gerard) and his psychic dog, who barks when danger is near, constnatly move from town to town, changing their names and identities.
In their crazy travels, they meet various members of Captain Jibby's Traveling Circus, which has an odd cast of performers: a strong man who hurt his back too bad to lift anything, a fortune-teller with short-term memory loss, a tight-rope walker who had his speaking privileges revoked, and a sword swallower who lost his hand while feeding a tiger. While camping, they also come across a cowboy who wants to be a poet, and is trying to come up with something good enough for the annual poem contest. The Cheeseman family is being pursued by three different companies: one named Plexiwave, which ordered Agents 5, 23, 88, and 207 to take the CVR from the Cheesemans, one whose name is unknown, but they have Agents Aitch Dee and El Kyoo chasing after the Cheeseman family, and a third one who also has no name, but Agents Pavel and Leon (who's a chimpanzee) to use to trail the Cheesemans. All 3 of the coprorations may be on their trail, but the Cheesemans have a reason to risk their lives for the CVR: Olivia Cheeseman (Ethan's late wife) was murdered by Plexiwave so they could get the CVR. Ethan might have been persuaded, but Olivia, realizing that these people would use it for evil, refused any offer, no matter how much money they were wililng to give. That's when Plexiwave realized: the only way to get the CVR would be to get Olivia out of the way. So, she was called in for a doctor's appointment, in which she found that their normal doctor was sick and so a stand-in did the appointment. The stand-in doctor (who was working for Plexiwave, and probably killed the normal doctor) injected her with a drug that was supposed to keep her healthy. But of coure, Plexiwave is evil. The drug made Olivia's health rapidly get worse until one day, when she could live no longer. But in her sickness, she realized what had happened and re-coded the CVR so that even if Plexiwave did get it, they couldn't use it. The only problem was, she never told the new code needed to Ethan. She did write it down, but Ethan only has the first half of the paper. And he can't find the time to test out a bunch of different combinations, due to him constantly having to take apart the CVR and run off to a new town so they don't get caught by any of the 3 corporations. The book seems like a kid's book judging by the cover (and yes, I know that stupid saying) but it's worth reading in to. Considerint that thisis the author's first book, it has a good plotline and cliffhanger ending. It's funny at times as well. So get it. Now.
Review by Joe W.
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