Portland Library - Teenspot

Portland Library
20 Freestone Avenue
Portland, CT 06480
860-342-6770

For the Teens...

The Young Adult area of the Library is designed especially to meet the needs of our middle school aged patrons. The collection is made up of books, audio books, and magazines. There are nonfiction books with subjects that young teens will especially find helpful and reference materials for a teen's reading level. Videos, DVDs, and Music CDs are located in the Adult collections.

TAB
The Portland Library TAB (Teen Advisory Board) is continuing to make the library a better place for teens! They will be spending the summer attending
and critiquing Summer Reading programs and giving ideas as to how we can make the teen program better for next year. The members also have their creative caps on as they try to think of a logo for TAB. There is sure to be more exciting TAB news to come in the future!

Want to comment about books, films, etc?
Here's your chance! BLOG

Transform Yourself - READ!
Tweens / Teens entering grades 5 and up may register for the Metamorphosis summer reading program and transform themselves throughout the summer!

Beginning June 17th, participants may come into the Library and fill out a registration form and receive a registration packet. Participants will read books from the New! Suggested Summer Reading List and from specific genres and complete trivia questions in an attempt to get MORPH-ED!
Each successful MORPHING will leave the participant with a goodie bag filled with raffle tickets, candy, and coupons to cool area attractions!

Transform your Time
The Library needs you! Volunteer your time at the Library this summer and get paid! Well sort of. We will give you 1 raffle ticket for every hour that you volunteer, all raffle tickets will be entered into multiple drawings for chances to win great prizes at the Wrap Up Party! In addition, all volunteers will receive limited edition SRP t-shirts as a thank you!

Transform your Mind
Our SRP 2008 Blog will be up and running beginning June 17th and continuing all summer long!

Transform your Clothes
Tuesday, June 24th at 6:30 p.m.
Make your SRP t-shirt an expression of YOU! We will be tie-dying, fringing, squirting, and transforming all evening long!

Transform your Hunger
Tuesday, July 15th at 6:30 p.m.
Fear Factor, Portland Style! Only the steel stomached need attend!

Basketball Hoopla
Wednesday, July 16th at 11:00 a.m.
Some libraries boast rare collections of esoteric books. Us? Well we’ve got Shaq’ s Shoes! You know.. Shaquile O’Neil’s size 22 basketball sneakers! Don’t believe it? Drop in and check it out as Sue Askin from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame presents a ‘taste’ of the hall.

Transform your Fear
Friday, July 25th at 7:00 p.m.
An after hours movie event full of pizza, music, and SCREAMING! (Sold out!)

Transform your Game
Thursday, July 31st at 6:30 p.m.
Are you a guitar hero? Do you dance like a diva? Come and show us during our evening gaming explosion! (Sold out!)

Wrap Up Party
Tuesday, August 5th at 6:30 p.m.
You gathered raffle tickets all summer long, now is your chance to use them! Checkout the great prizes on display at the Library throughout the summer and attend the party for your chance to win!

Tickets for all of the Teen programs will be available all summer long at the
Library.

the Kick off program being held on June 17th at the Brownstone Intermediate School with Bubblemania: Comedy with a Drip!

All ages are welcome at our kick off program! Just drop in!

Calling all Bug Collectors!
If you or someone you know is a collector of bugs, butterflies, or any manner of creepy crawlers and would like to display them at the Portland Library in either July or August, please contact us now! We are looking for professional or amateur collections of anything related to bugs to fill our display cases during the summer! Please contact the Children’s Department at the Library at 342-6770 for more information!

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