New Lenox Library Youth Services

The YS blog can now be found at:
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Read for a good cause! Help the library raise funds for the TLC animal shelter by participating in the Winter Reading Program! Pick up your reading sheet at the library starting January 5th. Read for 8 hours and receive a certificate! For more information, contact a Youth Services Staff member.
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Just a reminder, this week was the last week for storytime in 2008. Regular programs like Word Play, Time Travelers and Simply Silly Storytime will return the week of January 5th, 2009.
Have a great holiday season!
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Like graphic novels or comic books? Look forward to the Sunday comics in the paper? Ever wanted to make your own cartoon?
Word Play: Young Writers’ Group will be creating comic strips and learning about cartooning at the next two  meetings, December 3 and 17, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Word Play is open to kids in third [...]

Need a rest from math? Sick of science? Take a study break with us, as we talk about Avi’s Seer of Shadows at the November meeting of Guys Read! The book, a chilling ghost story, is about 14-year-old Horace. He leaves his family in 1872 to apprentice for a photographer, and the boy is excited to learn [...]

Thanks to all of you who participated in our Elect to Read campaign! We had more than 150 votes for our candidates, and I’m happy to announce our winners:
For the preschool through first grade group, Curious George won. You can find books about Margaret and H.A. Rey’s curious little monkey in our picture book section, under E REY.
The [...]

Drop in the library from Oct. 28 through Nov. 4 to cast your ballot in our Elect to Read campaign! We’re celebrating the presidential election this year by running a slate of our favorite book characters. Any kids from preschool  through eighth grade can fill out a ballot. After the election, we’ll post the winners [...]

Just a reminder: The first session of weekly programs ends October 18.
There will be no weekly programs from October 20-November 1
All of your weekly favorites, like Time Travelers, Happy Books-Happy Cooks and Itsy Bitsy Toddler will return the week of November 3.
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Action, adventure and maybe even some duct tape await readers in the new boys’ book club at NLPL. Guys Read!, a boys-only book discussion group will meet for the first time Oct. 27 at 6:30.
We’ll be taking about the awesome adventures of Alex Rider in Anthony Horowitz’s Stormbreaker, playing some super-spy games and testing our [...]

Have you ever wanted to be a writer? Do you spend a lot of time daydreaming about fantastic places or creepy characters?
We’re starting up a new program next week at New Lenox Public Library, for kids in 3rd grade and up, called Word Play. We’ll meet from 4:30-5:30 p.m. on October 8 & 22 (Wednesdays) [...]