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

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!
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Transform Yourself - READ!
Tweens /
Teens entering grades 5 and up may register for the
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!
Suggested Reading
Lists
Brownstone Intermediate School
Portland Middle School
Portland High School, 9 & 10
Portland High School, 11 & 12
pORTLAND hIGH sCHOOL hONORS lIST
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!
The
Nutmeg Award:
Chosen by Connecticut’s Youth
To see the list of 2008 Nutmeg Nominees for Middle School
Students
Click here Nutmeg Award.

- BMXplus!
- CosmoGIRL!
- Entertainment Weekly
- GL Girl's Life
- et
- Mad
- Nintendo Power
- Seventeen
- Spin
- Transworld Skateboarding
- Twist

SAT
Question of the Day
Practice and Get Ready...
Homework Helpers
sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!
KidsClick! is a directory of Internet resources for kids
www.ipl.org
The Internet Public Library librarians are waiting to help.
www.askjeeves.com
Ask Jeeves and youll be amazed by his answers
brainmania.com
Promises answers to your questions in 24 hours.
www.howstuffworks.com
How and why the mechanical works.
wordcentral.com
Merriam Webster's illustrated dictionary
Other Sites
www.TeenCentral.Net
Offers advice!
www.ala.org/teenhoopla
Teen Hoopla: An Internet Guide
www.teenreads.com
The Book Bag, targeting teenage readers
www.kidshealth.org/index2.html
Kids Health Click in the Teen section
www.cyberteens.com/ctmain.html
Online games, puzzles, mazes & more
Last updated:
08/13/2008 |