Winter 2012-2013 programs for Teens:

Creative Writing Workshop with Jen Calonita

Thursdays, December 13, January 17 and February 28

4:15-5:15 p.m. Registration starts November 29.

Jen Calonita, author of the popular YA series the Belles and the Secrets of My Hollywood Life, is back to conduct her popular teen workshop. Bring your journal and Jen will provide you with professional feedback and information on how to become a writer.

SAT Preparation Workshop

Saturdays, January 12, 19, 26 and February 2, 9, and 16

Time:11:00-1:00

$80 per student/checks only.

This course will focus mostly on the structure of the test and the strategies and methods needed to succeed on the test. Students must purchase the Official SAT Study Guide, 2nd edition (ISBN-10: 0874478529) for the course.

The course will cover all three subjects on the SAT - Math, Critical Reading, and Writing. Please make checks payable to Merrick Library.  No refunds.

Registration for Merrick library patrons begins on December 15. Non residents may sign up for the program on December 29.

Babysitters Workshop

Monday, February 11 at 4:00p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Attend our popular workshop with Registered Nurses, Joann Tanck and Georgette Basso, and become a professional babysitter. Certificates will be awarded to all participants. Please bring a doll to the class.

Registration starts January 14. This workshop offered only twice per year. Sign up early.

Volunteer programs for 7-12 graders:

Participate in one of our volunteer programs and receive community service hours.

Programs are open only for Merrick residents. Registration for all volunteer programs starts on December 19.

Yoga Buddies

Wednesdays, January 16, 23, 30 and February 6 and 13.

Time: 3:45-5:00p.m.

Become a yoga buddy for a fifth or sixth grader. Together with the with yoga instructor Maria Yakkey, you will exercise and work on creating a yoga journal.

Please bring your yoga mat to the class. Registration begins on December 19. Limited to 5 volunteers.

Make a Blanket to Donate

Wednesday, January 16

6:00-8:00p.m.

Create a warm holiday gift to be donated to a local shelter. No knitting or sewing experiences necessary.

Registration starts on December 19.

Volunteers for Chocolate Covered Pretzels Program.

Tuesday, February 12 from 3:30-5:30p.m.

Help us to run this sweet cooking program for children. Sign up starts on December 19.

Limited to 5 volunteers.

Scavenger Hunt for Children

Wednesday, February 20 from 3:30p.m.-5:30p.m.

Help us organize and run a fun program for children. Teens have to attend a training sessions on Wednesday, February 13 @3:00p.m.Registration starts December 19. Limited to 5 volunteers.

Winter White Cotillion Party

Mrs. Jen Calonita

Requests the pleasure of your company

at the Winter White Cotillion Party

at the Merrick Library

On Wednesday, November 14h at 4:30 p.m.

Meet and Greet the author

Learn about table manners from an etiquette expert

A waltz lesson with a dance instructor

Delicious Cake

Raffles

R.S.V.P. 516-377-6112 x 125

Choose to wear Elegant Attrite like Mirabelle

Or wear jeans like Izzie

YA Fall 2012

SAT

Saturdays: September 15, 22 and 29, October 6, 20, 27. No class on October 13.

Time 11:00a.m.-1:00p.m. Fee $80.00/checks only

Learn tricks and techniques for taking the SATs. Enhance your math and verbal skills while learning test taking strategies that can help you get a higher score. Students must purchase The Official SAT Study Guide, 2nd edition, by The College Board. Please make checks payable to Merrick Library.  No refunds.

Registration for Merrick library patrons begins on August 18

Non residents may sign up for the program on September 1.

Creative Writing Workshop with the Author Jen Calonita

September 27, October 25 and November 29.

Time: 4:15-5:15 p.m.

Jen Calonia will provide you with instructions, professional feedback and information on how to become a writer and even publish your work. Participants have to register for all three sessions.

Registration begins on August 22.

Non residents sign up starts on September 5. Space limited to 10 students.

College Essay

Mondays, October 1 and 15

Time 6:30-8:00p.m.

In this workshop-style class, students will receive help with creating their college application essays as well as help with editing and enhancing them. Students are asked to bring in essay questions from the college they wish to attend in addition to any drafts or outlines they may be working on.

Registration starts on August 18

Community Hours Programs for teens.

Attention 7-12 graders, participate in one of the programs

and receive community service hours.

Programs are open only for Merrick residents.

Registration for all volunteers programs starts on September 17.

Wii Buddies

Monday, October 8

Program time: 2:00-4:30

Teen volunteers needed to help kids in grades 1-5 play Wii games and other board games. Sign up limited for 5 volunteers.

TAG (Teen Advisory Group)

Want better teen programs and events at the library? Want to have a say in how things are run? THEN JOIN TAG ! YOU WILL GET COMMUNITY SERVICE CREDIT!                                                    

If you would like to participate in TAG meetings sign up at the Teen/Media Desk.

 TAG Meetings Time 4:15-5:00p.m.

September 27, October 25 and November 29

Book Buddies

We are looking for friendly, enthusiastic volunteers in grades 7-12 who will read to tots in our Children’s room. A Training Session will take place on Thursday, October 11 at 6:30p.m. Volunteers must be available on Mondays from 4:00-5:30 p.m. starting October 15-November 5. Sign up limited to 10 volunteers only.

Bingo Game for Kids

Teen volunteers organize and run a Bingo program for kids.

Training session is on Tuesday, October 30@4:15p.m.

Day of the program: Tuesday, November 6 @3:00-5:00p.m.

Sign up limited for 5 volunteers.

LEGO Contest

Sunday, November 18 @

Help us to run and judge a LEGO Contest at the Children’s Room. Volunteers have to be available on Sunday, November 18 from 1:30-3:30p.m.

Sign up limited for 5 volunteers.

End of the Summer Party

Thursday,

August 23

at 4:00 p.m.

Many of you volunteered your time by helping librarians during the Summer Reading programs, or reading for a good cause.

We would like to thank all of you and celebrate your achievements.

Join us for a fun party with pizza, video games and cool activities like the Hunger Game Challenge, decorating cupcakes and making bracelets.

Our special guests will be girls from the One Is Greater Than None Organization.

Volunteers will receive their community hours letters.

We’ll raffle off a Nook and some other cool prizes!

Hi Hunger Game fans, are you missing Katniss and Peeta already?

Catching Fire’s November 2013 release date seems like an eternity to wait.

Do not worry: the Hunger Games movie

will be released on DVD on August 18.

We would like to celebrate this event and even give away

one DVD and some other prizes to you!

 Come to the Merrick Library: Teen/Media Desk a.k.a. the Capitol

and receive the Tribute Challenge,

complete instructions step by step and

submit your answer sheet to one of the librarians a.k.a. the Game Makers.

All answers will be reviewed by August 17 and the Victors names will be announced and posted in the Teen/Room on August 18 at 9:00a.m.

Who: Teens entering 7-12 grades.

When: August 7-August 17

Where: Merrick Library: Teen Room

Make a Graffiti Cake

Monday, July 16 @ 6:30 p.m.

Fee $3.00

Decorate a cake with edible “spray paint”. 

Take your cake home to enjoy with family or friends.

Sign up today at the Teen/Media Desk.

 

Attention  Beach Bag Book Club members,

We thought you might be interested in this article from

 the Merrick Patch.

(L to R): Susane Colasanti, Elizabeth Eulberg, Jen Calcnita.Credit Chris Boyle

Summer Starts Early for Teens at Beach Bag Book Club

Special summer-themed program was kicked off on Wednesday at the Merrick Library.

http://merrick.patch.com/articles/merrick-library-hosts-beach-bag-book-club#photo-10385259

Sign up for a Bech Bag Book Club today! Grab a beach bag, available at the Teen/Media desk; relax by the pool or at the beach with a book and come for a cozy gathering at the Merrick Library to discuss summer reads with popular authors. We guarantee lots of fun; give away prizes, snack, raffles, and book sale. Beach Bag Book Club opens its doors on June 20.

Our next meeting is on July 25 @4:15p.m.

Programs This Week

Summer Reading Club 


June 18-August 23

Take Action-READ!

When you sign up for the Summer Reading Club and submit a book review you’ll receive a bracelet or other prize purchased from a non-profit organization.

This summer each book you read is your contribution for change.

In addition to prizes for each submitted book review you will be able to enter our Weekly Raffles.

At the end of the summer, all participants of the Summer Reading Club will be eligible to enter

 the Grand Prize Summer Raffle.

Summer Reading Club:

Who: Open for Merrick Library Patrons in grades 6-12

What: The idea is that you read books (that you choose) and get prizes purchased from a non-profit organizations.

Where: Sign up at the Teen/Media Desk

When: June 18-August 23

Submit one book review and receive a bracelet from Reason2Smile

http://www.reason2smile.org/

2nd review mini notebook from Make a Wish Foundation

http://www.wish.org/

3^rd review a bracelet from One is Greater than None organization

http://www.oneisgreaterthannone.org/

4^th review and 5^th review a book of your choice for your to keep and one book will be donated to new library in Kenya.

NEW! Book Bag for Sleep Away Camp

If you are planning to spend a few weeks at Sleep Away camp do not forget to take a backpack with fun summer reads that we prepared for you. This bag can be checked out for the whole summer (June 1-August 30). The amount of bags are limited and available on first come first serve basis. Merrick Residents only.

Programs This Week...

Beach Bag Book Club

 Beach Bag Book Club opens its doors on June 20.
  

Our monthly meetings will take place at the Merrick Library.

Time: 4:15-5:30 p.m. Registration begins on May 23.

Grab a beach bag, available at the Teen/Media desk; relax by the pool or at the beach with a book and come for a cozy gathering at the Merrick Library to discuss summer reeds with popular authors. We guarantee lots of fun; give away prizes, snack, raffles, and book sale.

Wednesday, June 20    

Jen Calonita together with authors Susane Colasanti and Elizabeth Eulberg present books Keep Holding On and Take a Bow.

Summer Volunteer Programs

 Community Service Credits will be

 Awarded for Volunteer Programs

Summer Reading Club Volunteers 8-12 Graders

Volunteers will help to review summer reading reports and give away prizes in the Children’s Room. Volunteers must be availablefor at least two hours a week from11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., 2:00-4:00 p.m. or 6:00-8:00 p.m. from June 25-August 15. Applicants must be available for the training session on June 19 at 6:30-7:00p.m. Sign up limited to 20 volunteers only.

Summer Reading Club June 18-August 23

Take Action-READ!

When you sign up for the Summer Reading Club and submit a book review you’ll receive a bracelet or other prize purchased from a non-profit organization. This summer each book you read is your contribution for change. In addition to prizes for each submitted book review you will be able to enter our Weekly Raffles. At the end of the summer, all participants of the Summer Reading Club will be eligible to enter the Grand Prize Summer Raffle.

Take Action: DONATE!

iPod Donation Drive

Do you have an iPod you’re not using anymore? We need them!

During this summer we are collecting old iPods for Music & Memory . This non-profit organization  brings personalized music into the lives of the elderly or the infirm through digital music technology, vastly improving their quality of life. iPods can be dropped off at the Teen/Media Desk starting June 1-August 23.

NEW! Book Bag for Sleep Away Camp

If you are planning to spend a few weeks at Sleep Away camp do not forget to take a backpack with fun summer reads that we prepared for you. This bag can be checked out for the whole summer (June 1-August 30). The amount of bags are limited and available on first come first serve basis. Merrick Residents only.

New!

Book Bag For Sleep Away Camp!
If you are planning to spend a few weeks at Sleep Away Camp do not forget to take a backpack with fun summer reads already prepared for you!  This bag can be checked out for the whole summer (June 1 - August 30).  Bags are limited and available on a first come first serve basis.  Merrick Residents Only.

Donate!

iPod Donation Drive

Do you have an IPod you’re not using anymore? We need them!

During this summer we are collecting old IPods for the Music & Memory. This non-profit organization  brings personalized music into the lives of the elderly or the infirm through digital music technology, vastly improving their quality of life. iPods can be dropped off at the Teen/Media Desk starting June 1-August 23.

Summer Volunteer Programs

Community Service Credit will be Awarded 

Registration begins May 22 @ Teen Media Desk

Summer Reading Club Volunteers

Grades 8-12

Volunteers will help to review summer reading reports and give away prizes in the Children’s Room. Volunteers must be available for at least two hours a week from11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., 2:00-4:00 p.m. or 6:00-8:00 p.m. from June 25-August 15. Applicants must be available for the training session on June 19 at 6:30-7:00p.m. 

Sign up limited to 20 volunteers only.

Book Buddies 

We are looking for friendly, enthusiastic volunteers in grades 7-12 who will read to tots in our Children’s room. A Training Session will take place on Thursday, June 28 at 6:30p.m.

Volunteers must be available on Mondays from 4:00-5:30 p.m. starting July 9-August 6.

Sign up limited to 10 volunteers only.

Fantasy

Top Ten Teen Fantasy from Booklist Magazine

 Between. by Jessica Warman. Gr. 8–11.

After a night of partying, Liz wakes up to her dead body thumping against the side of a boat—and she begins to investigate her own drowning. Perfect for teens who like complex and supernaturally disturbed characters.

The Drowned Cities. By Paolo Bacigalupi. Gr. 9–12.

Two damaged children, Mouse and Mahlia, are the focus of Bacigalupi’s brutal novel that further explores the dystopian world depicted in the 2011 Printz winner, Ship Breaker. A propulsive page-turner.

Froi of the Exiles. By Melina Marchetta. Gr. 9–12.

In this second installment of the Lumatere Chronicles (following Finnikin of the Rock, 2010), Froi is sent on a deadly mission into the neighboring kingdom of Charyn, where he discovers tangled webs of deception.

 The Galahad Legacy. By Dom Testa.  Gr. 7–10.

This powerful final book in the Galahad series finds the battered crew having to make a number of impossible choices: take the offer of the advanced Dollovit race to live in controlled comfort or gamble it all on the harsh conditions of Planet Eos.

Grave Mercy. By Robin LaFevers.  Gr. 9–12.

In this dark, sophisticated novel set in the late fifteenth century, Mortain, the god of death, has sired 17-year-old Ismae to be his handmaiden.

Human.4. By Mike A. Lancaster.  Gr. 7–10.

This fast-paced plot follows 15-year-old Kyle Straker as he relates a story of great historic value to beings of the future. But what kind of beings?

 The Obsidian Blade. By Pete Hautman. Gr. 8–12.

In this killer start to a trilogy, Tucker Feye, hoping to find his missing parents, steps through a “diskos” and is wormholed back through time.

The Scorpio Races. By Maggie Stiefvater. Gr. 8–12.

Once a year, the island of Thisby hosts the Scorpio Races, a beachside contest involving man-eating water horses and riders who often perish in the process. Against this thrilling backdrop, a love story blooms.

Ship of Souls. By Zetta Elliott. 2012.  Gr. 6–9.

Gritty realism meshes with poetic mysticism in this novel about Dimitri (“D”), who thinks he’s found a one-of-a-kind “bird,” which is actually a being named Naru who needs help rescuing the souls of dead soldiers located at Manhattan’s African Burial Ground.

 The Wikkeling. By Steven Arntson. Illus. by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini. Gr. 5–8.

Henrietta and two friends are being followed by a lurching apparition called the Wikkeling that demands to know, “Where do you go?” Terrazzini’s silhouette artwork adds to the delightfully creepy tone of this fascinating dystopia.

Program This Week

Cancelled

CPR Classes for Teens

Saturday, May 19th from 11 am to 3 pm.  Fee $5.00. Registration begins 4/21.

This class is presented by IIdiko Catuogno, a certified Red Cross CPR/AED First Aid Instructor.  Learn how to reduce the risk of injury to infants and children, respond to emergency situations, and care for an infant or child who has stopped breathing.

Crime Fiction

This Year's Best From Booklist Magazine....

 The Butterfly Clues. By Kate Ellison.Gr. 9–12.

Unable to control her obsessions, 16-year-old Lo finds herself digging into a local murder. Ellison’s debut is a page-turning blend of violence, romance, and surprising glimpses into one girl’s tumultuous mind.

Chopsticks. By Jessica Anthony. Illus. by Rodrigo Corral. Gr. 10–12.

A teen piano prodigy goes missing, but that’s just the tip of this mixed-media novel’s tricky iceberg. Is her disappearance a result of her affair with an Argentinean neighbor or her increasingly unhinged performances?

 The Girl Is Murder. By Kathryn Miller Haines.  Gr. 7–10.

Peppered by irresistible 1940s slang, this observant historical mystery has 15-year-old Iris putting to use what she’s learned from her private-detective dad. Passionate, multilayered teen noir.

I Hunt Killers. By Barry Lyga.  Gr. 9–12.

Billy Dent was the serial killer, not his 17-year-old son, Jazz. But when a copycat begins replicating the famous murders, the cops bring in Jazz to help. Now if only he could bury his own killer instincts . . .

The Isle of Blood. By Rick Yancey. Gr. 9–12.

The Monstrumologist series takes a swerve into outright mystery: hundreds of pages of crackling, capering British-versus-Russian espionage occur before we meet this volume’s monster.

 Kill Switch. By Chris Lynch. Gr. 9–12.

As Da’s mind begins to go, he starts leaking secrets of his government past—and dangerous old cronies start looming. So desperate young Daniel hits the road with Da in tow. Compact, unpredictable, disorienting, brilliant.

Paper Covers Rock. By Jenny Hubbard.  Gr. 9–12.

This twist on A Separate Peace involves a pretty straightforward boarding-school death. But it’s Hubbard’s twisty, out-of-sequence delivery that turns the whole truth into a devastating patchwork mystery.

Wonderstruck. By Brian Selznick. Gr. 4–8.

Two parallel stories set 50 years apart—one told in text, the other solely in illustrations—drive this kid-friendly mystery about silence, opening one’s eyes, and the interconnectedness of life.

May 6, 2012

Programs This Week...





Cooking with the Baking Coach            Chinese Cooking
Tuesday, may 8th @ 6:30 pm.  Fee $3.00. Registration begins 4/10.
This time around we are cooking fried rice and egg rolls.

CPR Classes for Teens

Saturday, May 19th from 11 am to 3 pm.  Fee $5.00. Registration begins 4/21.

This class is presented by IIdiko Catuogno, a certified Red Cross CPR/AED First Aid Instructor.  Learn how to reduce the risk of injury to infants and children, respond to emergency situations, and care for an infant or child who has stopped breathing.

April 22, 2012

Programs This Week...

Spring Planting

Community Service Credit Opportunity

Wed., April 25 from 3-5 pm. Sign up begins 3/28.

Roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty.  We will plant some flowers in the Library Garden.  Gardening tools, gloves and a snack will be provided. 





Cooking with the Baking Coach            Chinese Cooking
Tuesday, May 8th @ 6:30 pm.  Fee $3.00. Registration begins 4/10.
This time around we are cooking fried rice and egg rolls.

CPR Classes for Teens

Saturday, May 19th from 11 am to 3 pm.  Fee $5.00.  Registration begins 4/21.

This class is presented by IIdiko Catuogno, a certified Red Cross CPR/AED First Aid Instructor.  Learn how to reduce the risk of injury to infants and children, respond to emergency situations, and care for an infant or child who has stopped breathing.

Help a Librarian                                                          

Community Service Credit Opportunity
March 7th, April 25th, May 16th, June 6th from 4-5 pm.
Sign up is limited to 4 volunteers and begins 3/28.
We're looking for responsible and enthusiastic teens that can help a Children's Librarian during programs for first and second graders.