Volunteers needed for Math and Reading Partners this Summer!

Need community service hours? Like kids? Want something to do this summer? Become a Math or Reading Partner!

Math and Reading Partners is a summer program for children finishing Grades K-5. Students are individually paired with an adult or high school volunteer from the community who will help them practice their math skills and/or reading skills over the summer months. The Youth Services Department hopes that you will consider participating in this successful program!

Volunteer applications may be picked up at the Youth Services Desk or downloaded here. Applications are due Friday, May 14th.

For more information, please stop by or call the Youth Services Department at 732-521-5000, extension 116.

Have you seen this owl?

Here is a photo of the baby Great Horned Owl with its very protective mother behind it. Seen right here in Monroe!

EagleCam: The Private Lives of NJ's Bald Eagle Family

Watch baby eaglets squabble like human siblings!
Watch mom and dad bring prey and feed them!
Can you believe this is New Jersey?

http://www.dukefarms.org/Education/Research/Duke-Farms-Eagle-Cam/

Join Teen Library Advisors!

Join Teen Library Advisors! And - Share your creative writing and art!

Next Meetings: Monday, April 12, 7-8 p.m. OR Tuesday, April 13, 4-5 p.m.

Students in grades 7-12 are invited to make Teen Central even better! Our new Teen Library Advisors group is working on new ideas. Come share the excitement!

At their first meeting, they suggested a Library-generated Teen Literary Magazine. Presto! We are now proudly accepting original writing and art from middle and high school students, to be published here as soon as we get enough. So drop off your essays, poems, sketches, stories, cartoons at the Reference Desk, attention Sue Grotyohann, or email them to sgrot(at)monroetwplibrary.org! Imagine – our own Teen Zine!

Volunteers needed for Tutoring Program at the Library

Math and Reading Buddies, a new peer tutoring program at the Monroe Township Library, individually pairs high school volunteers with elementary school students who need help with their math or reading skills.

If you need community service hours or activities for a college application and like kids, this may be the opportunity for you!

For more information and an application to volunteer, please click on this link:

http://monroetwplibrary.org/kids/Buddies Application vol.pdf

Vote in the Teens' Top Ten!

Voting is now open in the Teens' Top Ten!

What is the Teens' Top Ten? Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Books are nominated by members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Readers ages twelve (12) to eighteen (18) can vote right here, online, anytime between Aug. 24 and Sept. 18, 2009.

Winners will be announced in a webcast featuring WWE Superstars and Divas at www.ala.org/teenstopten during Teen Read Week, Oct. 18-24.

Click to vote now!

Check out the Summer Reading Wiki!

Check out the Teen Central Summer Reading Wiki!
See Covers and Story Highlights for Applegarth Middle School Summer Reading Titles! Click on Authors' Names to Visit Their Web Pages!

http://teencentralsummerreading.pbworks.com/