Looks fabulous. . . but we have to wait an entire year!!!???

December/January in the Teen Art Gallery

HOMESCHOOLED TEEN ARTIST!

For the months of December and January, the Teen Art Gallery will be showing artwork be local homeschooled teens.

You can see some of the art here!

Read This!

The Shadow Project, by Herbie Brennan (2010)

The secret door was already open. If it hadn’t been open, Danny wouldn’t even have seen it, and he wouldn’t have found the hidden elevator and been stupid enough to get in—and he wouldn’t have ended up stumbling into the Shadow Project.

While Danny is being interrogated about what he saw and heard in the underground facility, Opal goes on a mission. She is following a tip about the Skull, a highly dangerous terrorist, and the MI6 wants to confirm his location and take him out.

Only a few people are able to leave their bodies and travel to other places, using a second “energy body”. They can move through objects, or even fly. Nobody at the other location can see or hear them, so it’s a great way to spy on someone—completely risk-free and impossible to detect.

Or is it?

Now the Shadow Project staff can’t pull Opal back from her mission. They can tell that she is in pain, but they can’t bring her mind back into her body. This has never happened before and Opal’s father, head of the project, is frantic.

Nobody is available to send after her except Danny, who seems to have enough ability for projection that he might be able to do it without the special electronic implants. But if the enemy has caught Opal, would they be able to capture Danny as well?

TEEN GAME NIGHT IS BACK!

When: Every Tuesday, from 4-6.
Where: Teen Art Gallery
Why: Because the Boulder Teen Advisory Board (BTAB) wants an excuse to play games!!  SOOO, every Tuesday a rep from BTAB will be hanging out in the Teen Art Gallery ready to play board games.

NANO IS HERE!!!

Write write write write write

and if you need a place to write . . .  BPL is an official write-in location for Nano!!  I just had a granola bar and potato chips and I'm not even working on my novel right this minute.

Countdown to NaNoWriMo

It's almost here!!!  I know you have nothing else better to do. . .

REGISTER AND GET MORE INFO HERE

New Vista Exhibit in the Teen Art Gallery

EXPLORATIONS IN ART!  On display through November.

See more of the exhibit here

BANNED BOOKS WEEK: September 24-October 1, 2011

Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.  Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

What books have been challenged? LOTS. The top ten challenged books for 2010 were: 
1) And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson; 2) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie; 3) Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley; 4) Crank, by Ellen Hopkins; 5) The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins; 6) Lush, by Natasha Friend; 7) What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones; 8) Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich; 9) Revolutionary Voices, edited by Amy Sonnie; 10) Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

Want to know why these books were challenged and get more information? CLICK HERE to go to the American Library Association's website.

BTAB meets this Monday! (Sept. 19, 2011)

The Boulder Teen Advisory Board (BTAB) meets the third Monday of every month.  What do they do?  They make decisions regarding teen services here at the library.  They also give advice to anyone that is looking for teen input.

Interested in attending a meeting?  Contact Melanie: howardm@boulderlibrary.org

It's time for a loooong weekend!

Check out the HOMETOWN FAIR! 

But the library will be closed Monday Sept. 4. for Labor Day.

SCHOOL IS IN!

Teen Space at the Boulder Public Library is open for business:
Mon.-Thurs. 2-6
Fri. 2-5
Sat. 1-5
Sun. 1-5
phone: 303-441-4398

One more week till school! Really!?



The last week of oh so sweet freedom is here and will be gone before the rushing currents of the now diminishing Boulder creek turn back into a slightly over-sized brook.  But I will not be afraid of the doors to learning.  I will great them, head held high, and embrace another year.  Sighhhhhh. 
(Gee-I should go to writing class more often.)

Just Write Creative Writing Class for teens: Every Saturday through August, in the Teen Art Gallery, 2:30-3:30.

William Sleator, Fantasy Writer for Young Adults, Dies at 66

William Sleator, a writer for young people whose books pitted their heroes against aliens, ghouls and slimy things, not to mention the most malevolent rivals of all — siblings — died on Wednesday in Bua Chet, Thailand. He was 66.

Read entire New York Time.com obituary here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/william-sleator-science-fiction-writer-for-young-adults-dies-at-66.html

That's it for summer events folks!

Thanks to everyone who came to The Remus Lupins/Alex Carpenter and friends concert.  And to all our Summer Reading participants!  Here is a video from the event.  Sound is way bad, so we posted the lyrics from "The Weasleys" below.  You will have to look up "Rainbow Connection" yourself.

The Weasleys are all such solid bang-up folks.
May not have money, but who needs cash when you’ve got love.
Family is such an inspiration to me.

Like Molly, she watches the clock for everyone.
That’s the way it should be, wizards welcome as our others.
The Weasleys are such an inspiration to me.

Well not Percy cause he’s a first class right foul prat.
‘Tween you and me, Fred and George more then make up for that.

We’re going to the Burrow.
Repeat . . .

The Weasleys are such an inspiration to me.
Repeat . . .

"and we're here to ROCK the library down!!"

July 1, 2011:  Paul and Joe did it again-the library was nothing but stones and dust.  People complained that they were to loud.  People complained that they didn't understand their music.  Sad, just sad.

July 9: We watched SuckerPunch in the Canyon Theater due to rain and ate a TON of pizza.  
What exactly is SuckerPunch a metaphor for?

Next up: The Rumus Lupins will play July 25, 6:00.  They are a metaphor for actualizing your amazing need for never ending Wizard Rock.

Teen Summer Reading: YOU ARE HERE!

What are going to do this summer?  Reeee . . . well, actually, do what you want. BUT if you want to get rewarded for reading and attend some fun events, BPL is the place for you to go.


Program starts MAY 31.
Every week you will be encouraged to read and if you do you will get candy, free books, and other free stuff.


EVENTS
OUTDOOR MOVIES: June 11: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,
July 25 and July 9 (TBA).
Harry and the Potters: July 1, 7:00
Remus Lupins: July 24, 6:00.

Bakesale was a success!

Thanks to everyone on the Boulder Teen Advisory Board that helped with the bakesale Friday, April 20th.  We had so many baked goodies, we had another bakesale on Sunday!  Now we just need to buy food for the Teen Space . . .

Colorado Teen Lit Conference

We are looking forward to the 23rd Colorado Teen Literature Conference at the Tivoli, Auraria Campus, Downtown Denver

April 2, 2011 with Pete Hautman and Rachel Vail

Below is a pic of part of the teen board at last years conference.  They had a good time exploring ALL OVER Tivoli and Hannah actually talked to keynote speaker Ellen Hopkins.  She was amazing.