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