On Thursday, October 29, at 7 pm, Sharon Flake will speak at the Evanston Public Library in the Community Room! Flake is the author of the following acclaimed YA favorites: Money Hungry; Begging for Change; The Skin I’m In; Who Am I Without Him; and Bang!
To welcome Sharon Flake to the Evanston Public Library and to celebrate her stories, the Loft’s theatre troupe will perform a scene from Money Hungry. The dance troupe Variations will also perform! Don’t miss it! FREE.
Need a job? If you are 16 & up, come to the Youth Job Fair here at the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., from 1-4 pm this Wednesday, October 7. Candidates should arrive by 3:30 p.m. Twenty employers looking to hire qualified candidates ages 16 and up are expected to attend. A resume and professional dress are recommended. For more information visit www.youthjobcenter.org or call (847) 864-5627.
Thanks to everyone who signed up to be part of the Teen Advisory Board yesterday at the ETHS Community Service Fair! The first meeting is Wednesday, September 30, from 6-7:30 pm in the Evanston Public Library Community Room.
Upcoming programs this fall: filmmaking, science cafe, Sharon Flake author visit, ugly dollmaking, book group, movies, gaming, and more!! Our first program of the fall will be led by TAB member Ruth.
What does the TAB do? We meet once a month to plan programs for the library’s award winning Loft. Board members also offer suggestions for the collection, help promote library resources and events, make videos, get advanced reader copies of the latest, hottest YA books, and last but not least, eat pizza and have a great time! Great for community service hours! (for Evanston teens in grades 8-12)
Hello my fellow detectives! The Loft just seems to get more and more exciting by the day. New programs are happening right and left. There is a video making workshop going down right now. Registration just opened for the video game design workshop and it’s almost full. The first “book it & cook it” workshop was a huge success with homemade cheese and pizza making & eating; July 8 is the date for the second “Book it & Cook It” class. There is also now a beautiful dry erase board ad for I am the Messenger, the story by Markus Zusak that will be performed by The Loft’s theatre troupe in late July. New actors, especially male ones, are still welcome to join this summer theatre program.
Now, my private eyes, I have a bit of a quest for you. Take the title of the book review on The Virtual Loft of the book that has a blue cover with conversation hearts on it. Open the library’s online catalog, type the title in and hit “search words or phrases.” Click the first title that shows up; then click more by this author. Where in the library would you look to find the book that is en Español? Tell a librarian on the meebo or discreetly pass it off to them in the Loft. Percival Falcon out.
Just a few of the books passing under this raptor’s beak this week:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
Blade: Playing Dead by Tim Bowler
Chew on This by Eric Schlosser
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Leonardo’s Shadow by Christopher Grey
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
The Reckoning by Michael Owen Carroll
The Year of the Bomb by Ronald Kidd
And a Few of the CDs…
The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
Sabriel by Garth Nix
The Sorceress by Michael Scott
Registration has just opened for the Video Game Design Workshop at the Evanston Public Library! Back by popular demand, the limited spaces are already filling up fast for this 3-session workshop! The class will meet on Monday evenings from 6:30 – 8:30 in the library’s computer training room: July 6, 13, 20. Must be going into grades 7-12.
Love video games? Have ideas for your own game? Sign up now for this exciting, hands-on workshop in which you will design your own games.
Tonight, June 12, Friday, at 7 pm in the Community Room of the Evanston Public Library!!
Come one, come all, to the Remus Lupins Rock Concert! FREE!
Wizard Rock at its finest!
Register here for the Summer Reading Program!
June 1-August 8, 2009. Read for the fun of it! You choose the books you want to read. Share your thoughts about the books you read this summer in any of the following ways:
Prizewinners in each category are drawn once a week, and prizewinners are also drawn at every program. All work must be original.
GREAT PRIZES! Open to middle & high school students!
Our fine and feathery offspring were banded last Wednesday at the Evanston Public Library! That’s Nona (proud Mama) to the left, hovering frantically as the humans hold her chicks hostage, sticking them with needles and such (below to the right). There’s discussion amongst the falcons that we should band some humans for our falcon-led human study, but the current thinking is that a wire tap would provide more useful information. One of the strangest and most prevalent habits we’ve observed is that of humans walking around town (not to mention the library) talking to themselves with some electronic device protruding from their ear. Or mouth. Our scientific research has shed preliminary light on this incredibly odd behavior, and it’s linked to something the humans call “blue tooth.” Or “cell phone.” We will report back on any interceptions of note. 
The following books have been spotted leaving the Loft this past week.
Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini
Bec by Darren Shan
Being Nikki by Meg Cabot
Bram Stoker’s Dracula: The Graphic Novel by Gary Reed
Cashay by Margaret McMullen
The Devil’s Breath by David Gilman
Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
H.I.V.E. : Higher Institute of Villainous Education by Mark Walden
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesan
Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters
Melting Stones by Tamora Pierce
Mexican Whiteboy by Matt de la Peña
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon Hale
Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham
Undine by Penni Russon
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marrilier
Featured YA bibliography of the week: The Living Dead
Congratulations to the Evanston Township High School Class of 2009!!
The well-known The Remus Lupins come to the Evanston Public Library just one month before the release of the movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!! When the fabulous Tonks & the Aurors were here, we said we hoped that they were the first of many more concerts. And we meant it!!
Friday Evening, June 12, 7 pm, in the Community Room. Wizard Rock Band – The Remus Lupins
The Remus Lupins come to Evanston howling for all to support The Order of the Phoenix. The band’s motto, Fight Evil, Read Books, sums up their plan for defeating Voldemort, and they need your help. The concert by the California-based band will feature fun Indie Rock music inspired by the adventures of Harry Potter and his friends (and enemies) at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There is no better way to celebrate the world’s coolest Boy Wizard’s adventures than to join everyone’s favorite werewolf in singing about Love, Friendship and the power of Rock!
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