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Did You Know? You can earn COMMUNITY SERVICE hours.
Contact the teen librarian for a volunteer application and availability of hours. You can earn hours by helping at children’s events or by preparing questions and co-leading one of the teen book discussions. Call Kathy Watson at 362-5234 or send her an email at youngadult@kimballlibrary.com.
The ‘No-Bake, Bake-Off!’ rules are fairly simple. You can make either a drink, appetizer or dessert that has a February holiday theme. It has to be primarily made in the library and you can use the microwave to heat up your creation. If you want to do some prep at home that is acceptable. You can bring your own blender. You...
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Please click on the ‘calendar’ icon on this webpage (look to your right under ‘library links’) to get details regarding each program such as age groupings, date, time, and whether registration is required. (*registration required) Below is just a list…
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New for youth on Thursdays are “Create & Express” art classes. Generally, these will be fun and easy crafts for any skill level. Each month in-house artist, Judy Marden, will offer you one or two crafts to choose from. The crafts will coordinate with the holidays and/or seasons and will often be offered for...
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(Teen Video Challenge 2012) New Hampshire is participating in the national “You are Here” Teen Video Challenge 2012, and YALS (the Young Adult Librarians of NH) is sponsoring this contest at the state level. Please visit the YALS website page for more information about the contest at http://www.nashualibrary.org/YALS/CSLP2012.htm. The winner of the state contest will...
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Are you gnarly about words? Do you like to be with other peeps your age to hang and chat with? Competitive, much? Try us one Tuesday night of each month. The teen librarian plans to play word games with teens. The game of the night will vary depending on the number of tweens and teens who...
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This historical novel about New York City’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and the catastrophic Factory fire hits its stride to offer a compelling message about labor, sacrifice and the price of freedom in America. Haddix (the Shadow Children series) follows three very different girls: naïve Bella from Italy, who becomes a strikebreaker; the feisty Yetta,...
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Fifteen-year-old Pearl DeWitt and her mother live in Fallbrook, California, where it’s sunny 340 days of the year, and where her uncle owns a grove of 900 avocado trees. Uncle Hoyt hires migrant workers regularly, but Pearl doesn’t pay much attention to them . . . until Amiel. From the moment she sees him,...
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Vote for FLUME Nominee Titles Today! All of the information is at http://www.nashualibrary.org/YALS/FlumeNominationForm.htm The deadline to submit nominations is January 27, 2012.
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Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. Kira, an orphan with a twisted leg, lives in a world where the weak are cast...
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We are inviting mature 5th graders to try Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes and join in the tween discussion. Ask for a book at the front desk. ‘Olive Barstow was dead. She’d been hit by a car on Monroe Street while riding her bicycle weeks ago. That was about all Martha knew.’ Martha Boyle...
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