Program

The Hoover Public Library hosted its second Reader's Passport: The 39 Clues last night. So we can finally reveal what the fuss was all about!

Our summer book club focused on the popular series The 39 Clues. There are eleven books in the current series, and a spin-off series kicks off this fall. The titles have been penned by various popular authors, including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Jude Watson, and Margaret Peterson Haddix.

I know, I know! You haven't been hearing a lot about Teen Summer Reading yet on the blog. I'm sorry, but there is a good reason. The programs are filling up so fast, I don't have time to advertise them! But, fear not, You Are Here is going strong. Here's what the rising 6th-12th graders have been up to this month.

Get Your Game On - Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 6:30 p.m.
45 teens challenged each other to Super Smash Brothers on the Wii! Big winner Nathan earned a $25 gift card to Game Stop.

Just finished our two-day, five-show magic marathon with Brian Curry! We had 1,497 people fill our Library Theatre for 45 minutes of laughs and AMAZING magic tricks. And we librarians especially enjoyed that all of the tricks were based on our favorite things . . . BOOKS! If you would like to read any of the books that Brian used in his act, you're in luck. We have the master list!

This month our Artisans on the Plaza series picks back up with Mary Liz Ingram www.MaryLizIngramArt.com.

Join us while this local artist shows off some of the techniques she uses to bring life to her subjects. While her works favor inspiring landscapes, animal and people, she also accepts portrait commissions in either pastels or graphite.

She has also been providing art lessons to adult and children for over 5 years. She currently teaches pastels at Forstall Art Center in Homewood on Wednesday afternoons.

Thought I would have this posted over the weekend, but the library was so busy! I didn't have a spare moment! But, you don't have to wait any longer to find out how our Alice in Wonderland party went on Friday, March 18, 2011. All 156 attendees agreed: it was wacky and wonderful! The morning opened with a skit featuring some of Wonderland's most popular characters:

Alice - Courtney
Queen of Hearts - Mary Ann
Mad Hatter - Justin
White Rabbit - Laura
Cheshire Cat - Katie Jane

We are halfway through our Spring Break week! Can you believe it? We've packed a lot of fun into a short amount of time. Hopefully, you were able to make it to our Tangled Up in Rapunzel party on Monday. If not, you missed one BIG party! The Birmingham News featured it as one of the top 12 things to do in the city during Spring Break. The result: 355 people! WHOA! Luckily, Miss Mary Ann and Miss Karen were super prepared.

It had been almost two whole months since the Reader's Studio gang got together. We had a lot of catching up to do. And, hooray, we had a new friend named Frank at our February 7 meeting! We all read books about famous people. Some of us brought a biography, and some brought a historical fiction novel. All of us brought interesting facts about our famous person. Even Miss Polly and Miss Katie Jane learned a lot! Did you know that Walt Disney was an ambulance driver in France during World War I? Or that Benjamin Franklin seriously electrocuted himself over three times? That's just a taste of what you will learn if you tackle some of these highly recommended books.