Board Game Night and Christmas Gift Crafts

Just a reminder that Board Game Night is Thursday November 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m. upstairs in the training room (the one with red walls and computers).


Christmas Gift Crafts
Saturday, December 6, 1-3 p.m.
Main Floor Program Room

Save your hard earned cash and make your gifts. We will be making a card, an ornament and a gift from the kitchen (think popcorn). At the end of two hours you should have three gifts to give! Just to make sure that we have enough supplies for everyone, please call and register at the Adult Reference desk at 780-459-1682. Bring a friend, just make sure you put their name down too. If you have questions, call Kathleen at 780-459-1751.

Edmonton Teen Writing Group

I just recieved this information and thought I would share it with the aspiring writers out there. Kathleen

EDMONTON TEEN WRITING GROUP

The Writers Guild of Alberta is proud to be launching a mentored writing group in Edmonton, specifically designed for teens age 15 to 19. The purpose of this group is to unite teens interested in pursing the craft of writing; to provide a fun, friendly, safe and structured environment for participants to receive constructive feedback on their writing, involve themselves in literary discussion, take part in writing-on-site projects, and engage with like-minded young writers. The group will meet on a monthly basis, with the first meeting to take place on Sunday, November 23, 2008.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Stanley A. Milner Library, Writers Centre

7 Sir Winston Churchill Square

This session will be facilitated by WGA Edmonton Youth Writing Mentor Alexis Kienlen, and WGA Program Coordinator Kelsey Everton.

We request that those of you who plan to attend this meeting contact Alexis Kienlen at alexiskienlen@hotmail.com to confirm your attendance. If you are unable to attend this month’s meeting but would like to join at a later time, please write Alexis a note and she will keep you on the mailing list for future meetings and group information.

For more information, you can also contact Kelsey at (780) 422-8174.

NEW Comics in the YA Corner

We're trying something new in the Corner, comic books. I've bought about 40 comics and they are in a magazine rack on the floor by the chairs. They are for in library use, so when you have a few minutes to fill while waiting for the rest of the family to find their books you can sit back, relax and read a comic. The titles are mostly superheros for now, but if they get used, I'm open to suggestions for other titles.

Kathleen

Endymion Spring author Matthew Skelton Here!

Saturday October 20, 2007
1:00 p.m.
Library Program Room

It was a dark and snowy night...

Okay, so that isn't quite the way the book begins, but it is creepy and mysterious. I was going to try to come up with a snappy summary, but this review from Kirkus sums it up really well.

"Kirkus Reviews /* Starred Review */ This thriller takes precocious children whose lives are disrupted by their parents' separation, surrounds them with untrustworthy, professionally jealous and personally greedy academics and drops them into a mystery involving an ancient book. Said tome is made from a miraculous paper—the remains of a mythical leafdragon—and is indestructible. The result is a volume containing the secrets of eternal wisdom; it appears to be blank, but is continuously writing itself and reveals the contents only to those pure children it has chosen. The first, a young apprentice to Johann Gutenberg, is Endymion Spring, who carries the book to Oxford to keep it out of the hands of the unscrupulous Fust (Faust). Blake, a contemporary teen, finds Endymion's book hidden in plain sight on an Oxford library shelf. Characters' stories and settings alternate between medieval Germany and contemporary Oxford, and the atmosphere is steeped in cinematic imagery, especially the tenebrous world of the Bodleian Library's underground tunnels and book stacks. Allusions to legends and poetry mix with the appeal of a magical book that only answers questions in riddles. Wonderfully engaging, even addictive. (Fiction. 11-16)
(Kirkus Reviews, June 15, 2006)"

I am really looking forward to meeting Matthew Skelton and I hope you join us on October 20th at 1:00 p.m.! If you have any questions, please contact the library at 459-1682.

Teen Advisory Board Meeting

The Teen Advisory Board took a summer vacation but now we are ready to go for another year. Our first meeting will be Thursday September 20th from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Main Floor Program Room. What will we do? I'm hoping we can come up with some ideas for fall programs but really the agenda is up to you. If this is your first visit to the TAB, bring a friend! I'll bring the snacks and see you there. If you have any questions you can call me at the library at 459-1751 or email me at kathleen@sapl.ab.ca

See you Thursday!
Kathleen

TeenSRC Weekly Prize Winner

Congratulations to our first weekly prize winner Jessica M! With the first week of the summer reading club gone, we have 22 St. Albert teens signed up along with 17oo across the country! If you haven't started yet, it's not too late! It's summer, read what you like.

Teen Summer Reading Club Coming Soon!

The online Teen Summer Reading Club (TeenSRC) will launch soon. It will run for seven weeks and offer weekly prizes as well as a chance to win the grand prize of an iPod nano! Watch for details here and in the library, and get ready to `Book a Trip`with the Teen SRC!

Creative Writing Workshop

I have been able to book author Don Trembath for a creative writing workshop for teens on April 14th. I'll send out more information and and registration info in early March. It will run from 12 to3 on that Saturday and we will limit it to 15 people. Stay tuned for more info!