Teen Times @ HPL
August 2017
String Art Creations
Saying Goodbye to SR 2017
Lego Night
Teen Advisory Group
August Events
No Teen Program: Thursday, August 3rd from 5:30-7:30pm.
Solar Eclipse Prep Night: Thursday, August 10th from 5:30-7:30pm in the Teen Room. Teens will discuss the importance of the August 21st Solar Eclipse, design their own pair of solar eclipse glasses, and create pinhole projectors that can be used for eclipse viewing.
2017 Time Capsule and Constellation Boxes: Thursday, August 17th from 5:30-7:30pm in the Teen Room. Teens will create a time capsule that will be stored at the library until 2022 when the teens will be invited to return and open. Each teen will need to bring one small item that represents themselves to add to their capsule. Teens will also create their favorite constellation.
Teen Author Night: Thursday, August 24th from 5:30-7:30pm in the Community Room. Join the Teens as we hear from one of our very own, Caroline Claiborne, as she explains how to write and self-publish your own book. A Q&A and book signing time will follow.
“Selfie” Self Portraits: Thursday, August 31st from 5:30-7:30pm in the Teen Room. Teens will create self-portraits that will be displayed in the Teen Room.
New Books on the Shelf
Solo by New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander is a novel written in poetic verse. It tells the story of seventeen year old Blade Morrison, who knows the life of a rock star isn’t really about the glitz and glamour. All the new cars and money in the world can’t make up for the scathing tabloid covers or the fact that his father is struggling with just about every addiction under the sun, including a desperate desire to make a comeback and regain his former fame. Haunted by memories of his mother, who died when Blade was nine, and the ruin his father’s washed-up legacy and life have brought to the family, Blade is left to figure out life on his own. But, he’s not all alone. He’s got the friendship of a jazz-musician mentor, Robert; the secret love of a girlfriend, Chapel; and his music. All may not be well in the Morrison home, but things are looking up for Blade, until he discovers a deeply protected family secret. Thrown into a tailspin, Blade decides the only way he will understand his past and begin his future is to find out the truth behind the music and himself. This book will be shelved in Teen General.
Zero Repeat Forever is the first in the Nahx Invasion series by Gabrielle Prendergast. The 5th Wave meets Beauty and the Beast in this fast-paced and heart-stopping novel about an invasion of murderous creatures and one girl fighting for her life at the end of the world. He has no voice, or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind....protect your Offside. Then, a human kills her. Away at summer camp, sixteen year old Raven learns that the terrifying armored Nahx have invaded, annihilating entire cities, taking control of the Earth. Isolated in the wilderness, Raven and her friends have only a fragment of instruction from the human resistance and that is to stay put and await rescue. Then her boyfriend is killed. Thrown together in a violent, unfamiliar world, Eighth and Raven should feel only hate and fear. But when Raven is injured, and Eighth deserts his unit, their survival comes to depend on trusting each other. This book will be shelved in Teen Sci-Fan.
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