Teen Summer Reading: Wednesday Activities

 Vibromotors are ready for tomorrow's Bristlebots Activity! Teens, this activity is 7/30 from 2-3:30 pm in the Lane Room.

We'll also make these simple LED CD lights. Some basic soldering is involved with this project. It will be a great introduction for our harder circuit board projects.

Teens, check in with us on Wednesdays for fun projects during our Magical, Mechanical, Mysterious Summer Reading Program. Questions? Contact Stacy @ 603-926-3368.

Summer Movies, July 30-31

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wednesday, July 30 @ 11:30 am AND

Thursday, July 31 @ 5:30 pm

Rated R (2 hours)

The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. Starring Ralph Fiennes and F. Murray Abraham.

 

 

Isabelle Dances Into the Spotlight

Thursday, July 31

1 PM

Not Rated (1hr., 40 minutes)

This is a free event but attendance is limited to 60 kids. Please call the Children's Room (926-4729) or drop by to sign up.
Nine-year-old Isabelle is an inspired dancer with a flair for fashion design. She's thrilled to be studying ballet at a prestigious performing arts school, but her classmates are so talented—and she can't help feeling that she's always in the shadow of her "perfect" older sister, Jade. So when her idol, a famous ballerina, encourages her to audition for a professional ballet, Isabelle isn't sure she can land the role. And when a competitive classmate starts pointing out Isabelle's every mistake, her confidence sinks even further. Can she find the courage to step into the spotlight and discover her own way to shine?

Teen Summer Reading July 21th - August 18th

Robots, Electronics and More!

 

On Friday, July 25th at 2:00 pm we'll have Lego Robotics with Wayne Moulton of New Heights Adventures for Teens and The Sages of RPG.This event is FULL but please add your name to our list as we may have space available on the day of the event.

Stop by any time July 21st through August 18th and make a Circuit Creature in the Teen Area. 

Supplies will be available in the Teen Area.Take home your very own beastie bot.

We'll also be offering Bristle Bots July 30th 2-3:30 pm in the Lane Room. The BristleBot is a simple and tiny robot with an agenda. The ingredients? One toothbrush, a battery, and a pager motor. The result? Serious fun.

Squishy Circuits August 6th 2-3:30 pm in the Lane Room. Free snacks and drinks will be available! 
Use homemade conductive and resistant play-doh to build electronic sculptures that light up, move, and make sounds. Anyone who has ever tasted play-doh knows that it’s a salty substance. The salt allows electricity to flow through the dough. With the addition of a homemade dough that substitutes sugar for salt, the dough becomes resistive instead, and complex circuits can be created to power all kinds of objects. We use battery packs, LED lights, hobby motors, and buzzers to explore electricity in a fun, hands-on way.

Featured Book: 

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong

by Prudence Shen & Faith Erin Hicks

Read our featured graphic novel and win additional raffle tickets for our grand finale drawing. Located at the main desk or in the teen area.

You wouldn’t expect Nate and Charlie to be friends. Charlie’s the laid-back captain of the basketball team, and Nate is the neurotic, scheming president of the robotics club. But they are friends, however unlikely—until Nate declares war on the cheerleaders. At stake is funding that will either cover a robotics competition or new cheerleading uniforms—but not both.

It's only going to get worse: after both parties are stripped of their funding on grounds of abominable misbehavior, Nate enrolls the club's robot in a battlebot competition in a desperate bid for prize money. Bad sportsmanship? Sure. Chainsaws? Why not. Running away from home on Thanksgiving to illicitly enter a televised robot death match? Of course! In Faith Erin Hicks' and Prudence Shen's world of high school class warfare and robot death matches. Nothing can possibly go wrong.

All Summer Long Join us for Daily Events

Mondays 6:30-7:30 pm; We’ll play Kickball at the Academy with a Water Balloon twist. Sign-ups and waiver required. Meet at the Library.

 

Tuesdays 12:30-1:30 pm; We’ll meet in the Teen Area to do the weekly Bingo Card Drawing over a bowl of Ice Cream.






Fridays 2-3:30pm; We’ll have Xbox 360 Gaming in the Lane Room.

Read great books, attend great programs, earn raffle tickets for weekly and monthly drawings! All raffle tickets will be entered into our final drawing for iPad Minis and tickets to Canobie Lake Park.

Summer Movies, July 23-24

Rio 2
Rated G (101 mins.)
Thursday, July 24 @ 1 pm

It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets his father-in-law.

Heaven is for Real
Rated PG (99 mins.)
Wednesday, July 23 @ 11:30 am AND
Thursday, July 24 @ 5:30 pm

Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book, Heaven is for Real recounts the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. Starring Greg Kinnear.

Admission is FREE. Popcorn and water are provided courtesy of the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library.

"Treasure on the Isle of Shoals" - Tuesday, 7/15 at 6:30 PM

Join us tonight at 6:30 PM in the Lane Room for a fascinating introduction to recent finds on the Isle of Shoals. Archaeologist Nathan Hamilton has unearthed 300,000 artifacts to date on this largely uninhabited rock at the Isles of Shoals. Evidence proves prehistoric Native Americans hunted New Hampshire's only offshore Islands 6,000 years ago. Hundreds of European fishermen split, salted, and dried valuable Atlantic cod here from the 1620's. "King Haley" ruled a survivalist kingdom here before Thomas Laighton struck tourist gold when his family took over the region's first hotel on Smuttynose. Laighton's daughter Celia Thaxter spun poetic tales of ghosts and pirates. J. Dennis Robinson, a longtime Smuttynose steward, explores the truth behind the romantic legends of Gosport Harbor in this colorful show-and-tell presentation.

Summer Movies, July 16-17

The Iron Giant

Rated PG (1 hr., 26 mins.)

Thursday, July 17 @ 1 pm

A young boy rescues a huge robot which has rocketed to earth from space - and tries to protect the genial giant from a nosey government agent and the military. A captivating animated feature that's part metal, part magic and all heart.

Tim's Vermeer

Rated PG-13 (1 hr., 20 mins.)

Wednesday, July 16 @ 11:30 am AND

Thursday, July 17 @ 5:30 pm

 

Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Holland, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney, and eventually even to Buckingham Palace. The epic research project Jenison embarks on is as extraordinary as what he discovers.

Admission is FREE. Popcorn and water are provided courtesy of the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library.

American Girl event and "Isabelle" movie - Thurs. 7/31

Join us for our first-ever American Girl event! Bring your American Girl doll or stuffed animal and you can make something special for them!


This is a free event but attendance is limited to 60 kids. Please call the Children's Room (926-4729) or drop by to sign up. 

Thursday, July 31

12:45 - Picnic in the library! Bring a blanket and a picnic lunch to enjoy before/during the movie

1:00 - Isabelle Dances Into the Spotlight. Nine-year-old Isabelle is an inspired dancer with a flair for fashion design. She's thrilled to be studying ballet at a prestigious performing arts school, but her classmates are so talented—and she can't help feeling that she's always in the shadow of her "perfect" older sister, Jade. So when her idol, a famous ballerina, encourages her to audition for a professional ballet, Isabelle isn't sure she can land the role. And when a competitive classmate starts pointing out Isabelle's every mistake, her confidence sinks even further. Can she find the courage to step into the spotlight and discover her own way to shine? Not Rated. 100 minutes.

2:40 - Ballet Dance Presentation. Dancers from the NHAPA dance company will be here to show off some of their ballet moves and to teach the kids a few!

3:00 - Doll t-shirt design project. Each kid will receive a hand-made AG doll-sized t-shirt and we will have supplies to create your own design on the shirt.


Last but not least, we are having a trivia question raffle based on Isabelle's American Girl books. Click here to download the questions! Call the Children's Room to place the books on hold, read the books, answer the questions and turn the sheet in at the Children's Room. We will be raffling off copies of the Isabelle books, as well as an AG-doll-sized bed and other doll accessories. (You do not need to be present at the event to win.)

Summer Movies, July 9-12

The Book Thief

Rated PG-13

Wednesday, July 9 @ 11:30 am AND

Thursday, July 10 @ 5:30 pm

While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

Sophia-Grace & Rosie's Royal Adventure

Rated G

Thursday, July 10 @ 1 pm

Sophia Grace and Rosie are sent to Switzelvania by The Ellen DeGeneres Show as special correspondents tasked with covering the coronation of a new queen.

The Lego Movie

Rated PG

Saturday, July 12 @ 1 pm

An ordinary Lego construction worker, thought to be the prophesied 'Special', is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the Lego universe into eternal stasis.

All movies are free and open to the public. Popcorn and water are provided courtesy of the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library.

Adult Summer Reading - Prizes and Programs!

During the months of July and August, adults will have a chance to relax and read some great books while earning tickets toward a weekly Barnes and Noble $25 gift card drawing each Saturday, and the end-of-summer Grand Prize - a 7" Samsung Android tablet.  As always, our patrons get a gentle nudge to read outside of their usual comfort zones, with not one but two 'Bingo' cards giving a choice of 25 Fiction or 25 Non-Fiction categories.  Pick up a card at the library, or download and print your own copy from the links provided here.  Plan to read your first book today - Saturday is coming up fast!

Things to Know:

• The contest runs from July 1st through August 31st
• Read a book from any of the categories on the playing cards - ask the staff for recommendations, or check the blue endcaps in the library each week for books in a featured category
• Get a raffle ticket for each book you read
• Get a Lane Library tumbler after completing 5 squares in a row on either card
• A drawing for a $25 Barnes and Noble gift card will be held each Saturday in July and August
• The Grand Prize drawing will be held Monday, September 1st

Above all, have fun!

Summer Reading Events for Adults:

• July 9, 6:30 PM - Introduction to Landscape Astrophotography, with Adam Woodworth
• July 15, 6:30 PM - Treasure on the Isle of Shoals, with J. Dennis Robinson
• August 19, 6:30 PM - Not so Elementary: the Popularity of Sherlock Holmes, with Prof. Ann McClelland

Complete descriptions are available on our Summer Reading Webpage.