Want to make a robot? Want to learn how robots can be used to clean up and protect the environment?
Take the Eco-Bot Challenge!
On Thursday, July 10th, from 6-7:30, the Teen Summer Reading programming will kick-off with the Eco-Bot Challenge.We’ll assemble our own Eco-Bot, and then discover how the robot functions. We’ll design a set of control surfaces to program the Eco-Bot to perform a simulated environmental clean-up project. No prior robot experience is needed!!
Interest has been high. We now are taking registrations for a waiting list! Please sign up for the waiting list as soon as possible by dropping by the Youth Services room or calling us at 883-4723 option3.
Check this blog for more news about summer reading and the very cool programs we’re offering. See you at the library!
Happy reading,
Connie
I know a bunch of you have loved Divergent and Its sequel, Insurgent. While you wait for Allegiant to be published (not until October 22!), here are some other dystopian novels. Each one is the first in a series, so you’ll have plenty to read.
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, who to marry.
Exiled from her safe home in the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria finds herself in the outer wastelands known as the Death Shop. If the cannibals don't get her, the violent energy storms will. There she meets a savage, an Outsider named Perry - wild, dangerous - who is her only chance of survival. But Perry needs Aria, too, and they are forced into an unlikely alliance that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky.
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
Transformation into a super beauty on her sixteenth birthday and reuniting with her friend Peris will only happen if Tally Youngblood's friend Shay also agrees to the operation.
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.
And there are even more novels like these! Just ask us in the Youth Services Room.
Happy Reading,
Connie
I love books. Oh, I also own a Kindle, but I love the feel of a book in my hand. I 'm an avid reader – one of those people who actually write “Reading” as one of my hobbies. Years younger than my brother and sister (I was only 10 when they both left home for college), I read a lot, finding a cure for loneliness by connecting with characters in a good story.
I especially love summer reading: a book, the sun, a comfy chair! And I love what I call “beach reads” –those easy, breezy books that are great stories with characters I care about. I’ve already added seven “to-read” books to my Goodreads account and will add more before summer.
Summer reading often means choosing books you want to read, and this choice helps instill a love of reading. Kids who don’t read in the summer can lose reading skills and be as much as two years behind their classmates by the end of 6th grade.
What books are on your “to-read” list this summer? Here's one I just finished reading and recommend.
This is a take-off on the Cinderella story,
set in the future. Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen
with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her
stepsister’s fatal illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the
handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an
intergalactic struggle and a forbidden attraction. She must uncover secrets about her
past in order to protect her world’s future.
Stay tuned to hear all about some fun summer reading programs for teens at the Scarborough Public Library this summer. I can’t wait!
Happy reading,
Connie
