I absolutely LOVE that time of year when Teens Top Ten voting comes around! There's something inexplicably exciting about sticking that orange YALSA speech bubble to the top part of a spine on a brand new YA book. At least for me there is. What's great about this year, is we got to set up the display in

Last year the teens asked for a Percy Jackson scavenger hunt, this summer it was Harry Potter (YAY!!) Because we had done a trivia based scavenger HP hunt earlier in the year with the younger HP book club group, this teen hunt was a little easier on me to create.   Planning a scavenger hunt in the library

Do you ever schedule things on the calendar with out having any clue on how you'll pull it together into a program? Because I certainly do... alot. This elementary architectural story time (Story Crafternoon) was no exception.   Inner Child Fun had done a fantastic write up on newspaper structures which was the drive to do something similar

What little kid doesn't love voting? So when local elections came up in our city, we held our own elections at the library with candidates of our own! Clifford the Big Red Dog VS Doreen Cronin's Duck. We invited one of the local candidates to read these two stories. Afterwards, kids and parents were invited to participate in

Last summer our teen-driven Iron Chef program was so well perceived that they requested it again for this summer. And when you have such enthusiasm to plan an event like this from teens, then you HAVE to do it right! As someone who still hasn't seen the show, without our teens and fellow librarian blogs, I would have

You'll run up two different staircases to reach door to Skyrim. Go outside door and towards tower on left.

This month in Harry Potter Book Club, we made wands! The basis of this craft came from Instructables and is made using paper and hot glue. It went over very well with our tween age group, although we did have some younger participants who needed a bit more help. Honestly, I was a little hesitant to pull out

Story Crafternoon is a program our library offers to elementary aged kids, who have gotten too old for our preschool story time. This program typically involves a story and a craft or activity. With Easter coming up, I really wanted to do something involving peeps and found a cute program called "Protect Your Peeps".  There wasn't very much

Pinspiration   

January 6th is national bean day. Did you know that? Me neither, but one of our TAG members sure did! (You can always count on teenagers to know the most random things). So needless to say, when this tidbit of information was shared, TAG unanimously decided our January program must have something to do with beans. Over the