May 4th - May 8th, 2020
This Week @ WMS Library
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لترجمة هذه الرسالة من المدرسة ، اضغط عليها ثم استخدم الرابط الموجود على اليمين. (Arabic)
Այս տեղեկագիրը թարգմանելու համար կտտացրեք այն, ապա օգտագործեք աջ կողմում գտնվող հղումը: (Armenian)
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Bu bülteni çevirmek için üzerine tıklayın ve ardından sağdaki bağlantıyı kullanın (Turkish)
MAY IS ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MONTH
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU
HARRY POTTER DAY
Don't forget to vote for this year's 1S1B summer reading- voting closes this WEDNESDAY!
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WFPL TEEN ROOM EVENTS
Teen Book Discussion Groups
Need an escape? It’s time to get lost in a great story! While the Library is closed, the Teen Department is hosting book discussion groups via Zoom meeting.
Prisoner of Cell 25 Book Discussion Group | Wednesday, 5/6 | 3:30 PM | Register: bit.ly/Cell25grpMay6
Renegades Book Discussion Group | Wednesday, 5/13 | 3:30 PM | Register: bit.ly/RenegadesGrpMay13
How to participate:
- Pick out which audiobook you want to read.
- Check out the audiobook from Hoopla. Your WFPL library card gives you instant access.
- Join us for a book discussion conducted via Zoom meeting. (Follow the links below to register.)
- If you need more information or get stuck along the way please contact cconkey@watertown-ma.gov
Enter WFPL’s Writing Contest for Teens!
The WFPL is accepting submissions about your experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. You are invited to submit prose works of 600 to 2,500 words to be judged by a panel of WFPL staff. Your writing will be evaluated for creativity, style and voice.
Because your experiences are very important, all entries will be bound together and kept as part of the WFPL’s local history collection (with your permission).
For info on entry requirements, prizes, and hints on how to get started, visit https://www.watertownlib.org/523/My-True-Story
OTHER WMS LIBRARY HAPPENINGS
This Week's *Always Available* Book Pick
These titles are always available from Sora (log in with your school email & password). No waiting!
Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff
When you're sixteen and no one understands who you are, sometimes the only choice left is to run. If you're lucky, you find a place that accepts you, no questions asked. And if you're really lucky, that place has a drum set, a place to practice, and a place to sleep. For Kid, the streets of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, are that place. Over the course of two scorching summers, Kid falls hopelessly in love and then loses nearly everything and everyone worth caring about. But as summer draws to a close, Kid finally finds someone who can last beyond the sunset.
Brooklyn, Burning is a fearless and unconventional love story. Brezenoff never identifies the gender of his two main characters, and readers will draw their own conclusions about Kid and Scout. Whatever they decide, Brooklyn, Burning is not a book any teen reader will soon forget.
Brooklyn, Burning is the story of two summers in Brooklyn, two summers of fires, music, loss, and ultimately, love.
Read Aloud BINGO!
Visit the WMS Library Website for Digital Reading Resources & Tutorials
- How to borrow eBooks and audiobooks from the Watertown Middle School digital collection (Destiny Discover)
- How to search, browse and borrow eBooks and audiobooks from the MLS Commonwealth eBook Collection (Sora)
- How to search, browse and borrow from the WFPL digital collection (Overdrive).
- How to search, browse and borrow from Hoopla
- How to get a Boston Public Library eCard (bpl.org/ecard)
Leah Maroni-Wagner
Library Website: www.wmslibrary.org
Virtual Library: bit.ly/wmslibextend