A Big Thanks

The Summer Reading Program, Live Green, Read Green @ Your Library is just beginning and is proving to be more popular than last year. As you start scouring the shelves for the perfect books to bring you through this summer, let's take a second to thank the amazingly generous sponsors of the Teen Summer Reading Program of 2009.

Thanks to:

Baker's Square
Game Stop
Lansing Cinema 8
Music Lab
Schoop's Hamburgers
Teri's Tea Rose

If you haven't yet, stop in downstairs and check out all the prizes you could own just by reading books.

Enhancing Education Through Technology

Heritage Middle School has partnered with Lansing Public Library as part of the school's E2T2 grant: Enhancing Education Through Technology.

Listen to this brief podcast to learn what the Newenhouse family likes to read!

Looking for the books they talked about? The Lansing Library has them! Click on the links below to see if they are available now, or to add your name to the request list.

Patty mentions her favorites: Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb, and Nicholas Sparks.
She just finished reading The Choice by Nicholas Sparks.

Jessica likes The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.

Rebecca is reading The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.

For more information on other events we have recorded, visit our Podcast Information Page.

A Night of Poetry

The entries are in and thanks to the amazing influx of poems, the annual Poetry Cafe is on! Keep Wednesday, April 29 open on your calenders in order to join us at 6 pm for a night of poetry and snacks. Winners of the poetry contest will be revealed and prizes awarded. Feel free to read your own poems or your favorite poem at our open mic. Also, those who entered a poem in the contest will receive our poetry magazine, Random Inklings; the new home to their poetry.

Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award

The wait is over!

The 2009 winner of the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Award is The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.

2nd place: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

3rd place: Shug by Jenny Han

Cool stuff in March

March 5: Book Discussion-Epic by Conor Kostick
On New Earth, a world based on a role-playing video game 14-year-old Erik persuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families. (from Lansing Public Library catalog)

March 9-14: Teen Tech Week - Just Press Play@your library
Teen Tech Week is a week set apart in order to celebrate all the awesome technology in our lives whether it is watching movies, listening to music, or playing video games.

March 9 @ 5pm: Movie Night - School of Rock (rated PG-13)
When his band votes him out due to his embarrassing musical antics, Dewey has to make rent somehow. After intercepting a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned, Dewey finds himself in front of a class of elite elementary school students. Dewey decides to take on the music program and makes it his goal to teach them the gospel of rock and roll. His ulterior motive is to get them to compete against his former band for a cash prize. (from Lansing Public Library catalog)
Grades 6-12, no sign-up required

March 12 @ 4 pm: Game Day!
You can't celebrate technology with video games! Come on by and try your luck at DDR.
Grades 6-12, no sign-up required

March 14 @ 1pm :Animoto class
What is Animoto? Well its basically a website that allows you to upload your pictures, add a little music, and end up with your own music video! Feel free to bring your own pictures. Space is limited so sign up today!
Grades 6-12, sign-up required, Limite 6

All through the month of March, stop by the Teen Desk and write down your favorite music, movie, and video game on our big poster board.

If you signed up for Read for a Lifetime, time is running out. You must read your four books and turn in your sheet to the Teen Desk by March 31st. One lucky person will win a gift card to the mall!

Looking toward April....
April is National Poetry Month and once again we are holding our Poetry Contest and Poetry Cafe. Pick up an entry form at your school or at the library. All entries due March 31st.