June 2011 Events for Teens!

Join our Teen Summer Reading Club!

• Thu., June 9 –TEEN ADVISORY BOARD MEETING*
  4 – 5 p.m.
  Help plan teen library events & decide on materials to purchase for the teen collection! Refreshments served. Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Encino-Tarzana Library
• Sat., June 11 –JOIN OUR TEEN SUMMER READING CLUB!
  10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
  Stop by the library any time to join our Teen Summer Reading Club! You will receive a summer reading club game card, bag and lots of chances to win tons of fabulous prizes throughout the summer! You can also sign up online here: http://ca.evanced.info/lapl/sr/homepage.asp?ProgramID=2
  
• Thu., June 16 – “YOU ARE HERE” CULTURAL FAIR!*
  4 – 5:30 p.m.
  Sign-up for our teen summer reading club! Celebrate the theme “You Are Here” with international cuisine by Chef TroyEl! Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Encino-Tarzana Library
  
• Thu., June 30 – TEEN VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION*
  4 – 5 p.m.
  Learn how to earn community service hours at the library. For ages 11-18 only. Call or stop by the library to sign-up!
  

*Teen library volunteers will receive an extra hour (or more!) of community service for each teen program they attend.

For more information on any of these events, call 818-343-1983!

"You Are Here!" at the Encino-Tarzana Library!

Fairyland Cosplay Tea Party with Catherynne Valente!

Extra special thanks to the fabulous Catherynne Valente, Feiwel & Friends Books, and Trader Joe’s Encino for making our tea party possible!

Author Catherynne Valente and actor Frank Romeo did a fabulous reading from Valente’s Andre Norton Award-winning book, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.

Participants were also given fairy kisses (glitter tattoos) and could make their own fairy wands!

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Teen Movie Night Premiere!

Many thanks to everyone who joined us for our very first Teen Movie Night, featuring “Nacho Libre,” Lucha Libre masks, and Nacho Cheese Doritos!

Special thanks to the Friends of the Encino-Tarzana Library for co-sponsoring our event!

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Tracy White Comics Workshop!

Many thanks to Tracy White, First Second, and all of the teens that attended our comics workshop with author/illustrator/teacher Tracy White!

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Exclusive Short Story by Cat Valente!

To celebrate author Catherynne Valente’s extra special upcoming visit to the Encino-Tarzana Library on Thursday, May 12th, we are featuring an excerpt from a short story she has written especially for each stop on her current book tour!

The short story is called Nine Lessons from a Wyverary Governouresse and has nine parts.

The Encino-Tarzana Library is proud to present Part 5: On the Nature of Wyverns.

(To read Part 4, click here, and you will be taken to Skylight Books website.)

Nine Lessons from a Wyverary Governouresse 

5. On the Nature of Wyverns

Wyverns are very like dragons, but entirely different. The most obvious difference concerns our feet. Dragons have four, Wyverns have two—no ridiculous dinosaur forearms to wiggle uselessly at the moon. In addition, the chief hobby of Dragons is hoarding. They scarf up treasure wherever they can find it—palaces, certainly, that’s an easy mark. But also banks, stock exchanges, law firms, and other monstrous lairs. They are not above clawing raw gold out of the mountainside, nor even sneaking into taverns at night and stealing the 20th Anniversary of the Thrashing of King Goldmouth Commemorative Dish (Realle Golde) right off the wall. Dragons are better at sneaking than you think—they don’t like anyone to know, but I’ve no trouble with tattling on my cousins. A real Dragon can fold up just as thin as you please, like a piece of paper creased a hundred times.

What do they do with all this glittering, lovely treasure? Well, they hoard it, don’t you know. Dragons offer interest rates to rival any investment bank. It’s all a trick to bring in the good stuff without the trouble of sneaking—Stow Ye Gold With Usse, Dubble Ye Money in Just Onne Centuree! And if you come back in a centuree to get it, why, they’ll offer you such riches to let it lie with them for just a few more years! What’s a millennia between friends? You don’t need Granny Squashblossom’s lifesize sapphire war-horse right this moment, do you? And in their caves they run gems over their tongues in the dark, savoring their sweetness.

Wyverns do not hoard. We are not immune to the excitements of treasure—who is? But hoarding is, well, it’s a little boring, isn’t it? Just sitting there on a mountain of doubloons and magic lamps. The brain of a Wyvern is a more organized place. Given a room full of gold and silver and malachite and topaz, we would prefer to sort it. Wyverns love to categorize, to organize, to strategize—anything ending with -ize, really. There ought to be a new word: Wyvernize. To devise ornate systems of organization. This is certainly why my mother was so enamoured of the Library she took as a mate and who was our father—what better system of sorting could there possibly be?

It’s never so simple as gold goes with gold, silver with silver, ivory with ivory, emeralds with emeralds. The possibilities are so much greater! Sort metal with metal, stone with stone—well, that’s easy. But what about Treasure Won by Deceit? Treasure Won by Fair Fisticuffs? Treasure Not Won But Lost? That’s better Better still: Things Which Are Precious Because Someone Loved Them? And Things Which Are Precious Because Someone Died For Them? And Things Which Are Precious Because Someone We Knew  Thought They Were Beautiful?

That is how Wyvernization is done.

(To read Part 6, click here, which will take you to the Borderlands Books website.)

Don’t forget to join us on Thursday, May 12th, from 4-5 p.m. for our Fairyland Cosplay Tea Time with author Catherynne Valente!

May 2011 Events for Teens!

Join us for Teen Movie Night @ the Encino-Tarzana Library!

• Thu., May 5 – TEEN MOVIE NIGHT!*
  4– 6:30 p.m.
  Join us for our first teen movie night at the library, featuring “Nacho Libre!” Refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Encino-Tarzana Library
• Sat., May 7 – Student Smart: SAT Practice Exam*
  10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
  The Princeton Review administers the full length practice exam for FREE. You may want to bring a calculator and a snack. Spaces are limited, so call to reserve your seat NOW!
  
• Thu., May 12 – Fairyland Cosplay Tea Party with CAT VALENTE!*
  4 – 5:30 p.m.
  Teens, tweens, kids and parents are invited to join us for an all ages fairyland tea party featuring author CAT VALENTE. Don’t forget your wings! Co-sponsored by Feiwel & Friends & Trader Joe’s Encino
  
• Fri., May 13 – Student Smart: SAT Exam Follow-Up Session*
  4 – 5 p.m.
  Receive your results and tips to improve your score at this session.
• Thu., May 26 – TEEN ADVISORY BOARD MEETING*
  4 – 5 p.m.
  Help plan teen library events & decide on materials to purchase for the teen
  collection! Refreshments served. Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Encino-Tarzana Library
• Fri., May 27 – TEEN VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION*
  4 – 5 p.m.
  Learn how to earn community service hours at the library. For ages 11-18 only. Call or stop by the library to sign-up!
  

*Teen library volunteers will receive an extra hour (or more!) of community service for each teen program they attend.

For more information on any of these events, call 818-343-1983 & ask for Candice, the Teen Services Librarian!

Join us for a visit from CAT VALENTE, author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her Own Making

Coffee & Couplets 2 Thank Yous!

Thanks to all of the wonderful budding poets and poetry lovers who attended our event!

Here are some photos from the event:

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Many thanks, also, to Whole Foods Market – Tarzana, who provided the delicious refreshments for our second annual Coffee & Couplets Teen Coffeehouse Night!

Last, but not least, many, many thanks to the lovely folks at Examiner.com and Encino’s Patch.com for writing about our Teen Poetry event!

Teens Celebrate National Poetry Month @ Encino-Tarzana Library (Encino’s Patch.com):

http://encino.patch.com/articles/teens-celebrate-national-poetry-month-at-the-encino-tarzana-library

Live Poetry Event Gives Teen A Voice (Examiner.com):

http://www.examiner.com/family-entertainment-in-los-angeles/live-poetry-event-gives-teens-a-voice-at-lapl

April 2011 Events for Teens

 

Meet creator Tracy White on April 28, 2011!

• Wed., April 6 – Student Smart: Practice ACT Exam Follow-Up Session*
  4– 5 p.m.
  This session is for those who took the Student Smart: Practice ACT Exam on Sat., 3/26/11, only.   
• Thu., April 7 – TEEN ADVISORY BOARD MEETING*
  4 -5 p.m.
  Help plan teen library events & decide on materials to purchase for the teen collection! Refreshments served. Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Encino-Tarzana Library
• Thu., April 14 – COFFEE & COUPLETS 2: Coffeehouse, Poetry & Open Mic Night!*
  4 – 5:30 p.m.
  Maybe you’re a poet & you don’t even know it! Celebrate National Poetry Month by sharing your work or poems by your favorite writer.  Co-sponsored by Whole Foods Tarzana & the Friends of the Encino-Tarzana Library
• Thu., April 21 – TEEN VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION*
  4 – 5 p.m.
  Learn how to earn community service hours at the library! For ages 11-18 only. Call or stop by the library to sign-up.  
• Thu., April 28 – TRACY WHITE!*
  4 – 5 p.m.
  Meet author, professor and comics creator TRACY WHITE, and learn how to make comics of your own! Co-sponsored by First Second and the Friends of the Encino-Tarzana Library

*Teen library volunteers will receive an extra hour (or more!) of community service for each teen program they attend.

For more information on any of these events, call 818-343-1983 & ask for Candice, the Teen Services Librarian!

 

April is National Poetry Month!Duetto by Shelly M. House

 

 

Duetto by Shelly M. House

March 2011 Events for Teens

 

Mix & Mash @ Your Library!

• Thu., March 10 – ROBOTICS ACADEMY!*
  4– 5 p.m.
  Fun with robots, featuring CHAMPS Charter High School’s national competition-winning Robotics Academy!  
• Sat., March  12 – CHIPTHRASH CONCERT!
  2 -5 p.m.
  Join Kool Skull & friends for a chipthrash concert, using Nintendo Gameboys as musical instruments!
• Tue., March 15 – MAGIC WORKSHOP W/ TONY DANIELS!*
  4 – 5 p.m.
  Spaces are limited for this rare magic workshop.  Call or stop by to sign up!
• Thu., March 17 – TEEN COUNCIL MEETING!*
  4 – 5 p.m.
  Help plan teen events for the library and choose CDs, DVDs, and books to add to the library’s Teen Area! Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Encino-Tarzana Library
• Tue., March 22 – Student Smart: GETTING INTO THE COLLEGE OF YOUR CHOICE!*
  6 – 7 p.m.
  Learn tips on getting into the college of your choice! Spaces are limited; call or stop by to sign-up!
• Sat., March 26 – Student Smart: ACT PRACTICE EXAM!*
  10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
  Be prepared for the ACT. The Princeton Review administers the full-length exam for FREE. Spaces are limited; call or stop by to sign-up!
• Thu., March 31 – TEEN VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION!*
  4 – 5 p.m.
  Learn how to earn community service hours at the library! Must be 13 years old and up to attend.

*Teen library volunteers will receive an extra hour (or more!) of community service for each teen program they attend.

For more information on any of these events, call 818-343-1983 & ask for Candice, the Teen Services Librarian!

Happy St. Patty's Day from the Encino-Tarzana Library!

February 2011 Events for Teens!

Goong Hay Fat Choy! (Happy Lunar New Year!)

• Thu., February 3 – HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!*
  4– 5 p.m.
  Celebrate Lunar New Year with refreshments and by learning Chinese calligraphy! Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Encino-Tarzana Library
• Fri. & Sat., February 11 & 12 – FRIENDS OF THE ENCINO-TARZANA LIBRARY B-I-G BOOK SALE!
  10 a.m. -5 p.m.
  Help the library and help save the planet by purchasing gently used books at the Friends of the Library Book Sale!  Most titles are $1 or less!
• Thu., February 17 – TEEN VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION!*
  4 – 5 p.m.
  Need community service hours? Learn how to earn them at our Teen Volunteer Orientation!  Must be 13 years old & up to attend.
• Thu., February 24 – TEEN COUNCIL MEETING!*
  4 – 5 p.m.
  Help plan teen events for the library and choose CDs, DVDs, and books to add to the library’s Teen Area! Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Encino-Tarzana Library

*Teen library volunteers will receive an extra hour of community service for each teen program they attend.

For more information on any of these events, call 818-343-1983 & ask for Candice, the Teen Services Librarian!

Happy Valentine's Day from the Encino-Tarzana Library!