The Teen Advisory Group will meet Tuesday, 4 p.m. in the main library meeting room. At this meeting we will discuss what went wrong with the DDR Tournament and how we can make library programs better. Please come and give us your input.

The Teen Advisory Group meets monthly. To join the group, fill out an application and bring it back to Shawna with your parent's signature. Applications will be available at the meeting. Participating in this volunteer group makes you eligible for community service hours.

Three people attended the first meeting of the teen book group and came up with a name, The R.O.D. (Read or Die) Book Club. We also picked a book. Our first book will be Darren Shan's Lord Loss. If you would like to join the club, read the book and come to our next meeting on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 4 p.m. Hope to see you there!!!! Any questions? Please see Shawna.

Click here to find Lord Loss in the library catalog

Dance Dance Revolution Tournament Tomorrow!!!!

Don't forget! The DDR Tournament is Saturday. Think you can dance dance revolution, come show us at the contest that starts at Noon! Prizes will be given for first, second, third and fourth place. Play will be on DDR SuperNova 2. Come at 11 a.m. for practice before the contest starts. Rules of the game and songs to be danced will be announced at the tournament. Hope to see you there.

HAPPY SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!

Create Your Own Smiley

Bored with the options for moods on MySpace. Use this site called EZ Smiley to create your own. Pick the eyes, mouth, legs and hair. There are accessories too, like a book! Have fun...

Spring Break at the Library

The library has a whole bunch of activities planned for the Spring Break week. We hope to see you all here. All activies are in the Main Library meeting room on the second floor. Events are free and open to those aged 12 - 18. If you have any questions ask Shawna.

* Monday, March 24, 2 - 4 p.m.: Game Time
Play XBOX, GameCube, PS2, or board games.

* Tuesday, March 25, 4 - 5:30 p.m.: Teen Book Group
Love to read? Bring your favorite book to this discussion group.

* Wednesday, March 26, 2 - 4:30 p.m.: Ductagami
Come make a wallet or change purse out of duct tape. We've got tons of colors.

* Thursday, March 27, 2 - 4:30 p.m.: Card Games
Come to the Teenspace and learn some new card games.

* Saturday, March 29, 11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.: DDR Game Tournament
Think you can dance dance revolution. Come to this event and earn prizes for mad skills. Tournament starts at Noon.

And You Think You Have it Bad...

A Long Way Gone

By Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah lived the life of a normal teenager growing up in Sierra Leone. He hung out with friends and listened to rap music from the United States. Then one day he and his friends were heading to a nearby town to participate in a dance competition when they came face-to-face with civil war. This was in the mid-1990s and rebels were attacking villages: burning them to the ground and killing whomever they could find. Beah would not see his mother and father again and would only be briefly reunited with his brother as he and a group of other young boys roamed from village to village trying to survive. They traveled through the forest at night and scavenged for food where they could. Eventually they would be caught and forced to join the state army as a child soldiers. They lived in camp and were given drugs to numb their feelings and guns to kill when ambushing villages. Beah excelled because he was smart and was also given a chance to get out. Recovering from his experiences wasn’t easy. This is a story of survival through the harshest of circumstances that is told with candor and soul. A must read!

Click here to find A Long Way Gone in the library catalog

Hear the author speak about his life at the book’s website.

Where is Sierra Leone?

Read Manga Online

For all you manga fans out there, here's a site for you. It's called One Manga and it's got tons of manga scanned for your online reading pleasure. So say you can't get Absolute Boyfriend 5 at the library, read it at One Manga. Hey, you might as well read the whole series, they've got it. There are more than 400 manga on the site, including popular titles like Naruto, xxxHolic and Skip Beat. There are also manga inspired games, a forum for all those heated manga discussions and a chat function. Check it out! Thanks to teenlibrarian.com for the tip!