Teen catchup

Long time, no blog. Summer ended, then we got right back into the whirl and swirl of the school year. We ended our teen summer programs with Anime Fest, a day-long mini-mini anime convention. 50 teens attended and everyone seemed to have a blast. As always we are so lucky to have the Friends of the Palm Beach County Library system who are willing to foot the bill for pizza, Ramune (Japanese soda) and Pocky (Japanese snack food) for 50 hungry teens!

October is going to be another busy month with Teen Read Week smack in the middle of it. We are participating in the Pimp My Bookcart (otherwise known here as the "Trick my Book Truck") contest for the second year in a row. Wish us luck, our Teen Advisory Group has submitted some bang-up ideas so far. The Teen Read Week theme is "Books with Bite" so we're hosting a Twilight trivia contest. And we're ending the month with a Japanese Storytelling session hosted by *gulp* me. (I learned to love storytelling when I took a class in it from Dr. Henrietta Smith, one of the best courses I've ever taken, hands-down.) We're also hosting our standard monthly favorites: creative writing, Teen Advisory Group meeting, Pizza and Pages book discussion, Anime Grab Bag, Game Night and Movie Night.