DPL Teens

 …having a flashmob rave in your college library to relieve the stress of finals week.  Check it:

Okay, so some of them need to work on their dance moves a bit…but how super fun would a happening like that be!?!

-Christie

Tired of reading about vampires? I’m not but in case you are here’s something a little different but just as suspenseful. Revolution is not a Dinner Party is an incredible story about a young girl living through the cultural revolution. During this time China saw the rise of the powerful communist leader Mao Ze dong. The basis of Chariman Mao’s rule or revolution was to do away with anything western, wealthy or intellectual – he wanted to overthrow the old China and replace it with a new working class. The precocious main character, Ling struggles wth the blatant injustices during this time. Once caring neighbors turn on one another, food and other items become severely rationed. Good, hard working people are humiliated, beaten and taken to labor camps. Eventually Ling’s adoring father, a brilliant and caring surgeon, is also taken away. Ling’s story is absolutely captivating.

Ying Chang Compestine, the author of Revolution is Not a Dinner Party, writes this concise tale with simplicity. The events she describes are so compelling and detailed – perhaps since much of the story comes from her own childhood. Mrs. Compestine has written many picture books as well as several cookbooks. In September Rivermont Collegiate and the Bettendorf Library were so lucky to host Mrs. Compestine as a guest speaker. You won’t want to miss this fabulous book!

Rebecca

Today’s Wednesday and that means another installment of Get Your Game On will be taking place at the Fairmount St. Library.  If you like playing video games and hanging with other teens, then you should definitely come check it out.  Good times.  Good times.  And speaking of good, check out this pic that Mello, one of our dedicated teen patrons, drew of a few of the gaming crowd regulars.  What a super great pic!!  Thanks for sharing, Mello! 

Get Your Game On is every Wednesday from 3-5.  The library owns two PS2s and a Wii system.  Teens often bring in their own systems to play on, too.  Lately we’ve had four screens going at once.  And we play all sorts of games…Guitar Hero III, Rock Band, Super Smash Brothers Brawl, MarioKart, and Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2 just to name a few.  So come on by sometime and Get Your Game On!!

 -Christie

hey everyone this is chris  im just posting on this to test how this all works just wanting some suggestions for activities during teen activities/events so if you can just reply to this with any kind of idea for teen time activities thank you people!!!!!(teens)

chris

Okay, so we haven’t had all that much snow yet…but…in the event that we get a good dumping or two, you can bet I’ll have the Anime Club creating snow sculptures of their favorite characters like this one: 

In the meantime, join us for some indoor fun at DPL’s Anime Club.  The next meeting is tomorrow night!  It sure is nice, cozy, warm, and usually dry inside the Fairmount Library, especially next to the fireplace.  If you get here early you can always grab a graphic novel and thaw out library-style.  Anime Club starts at 5:30.  This time around we’ll have all the fixings for more Shrinky Dink adventures.  Oh, and here are a few cool key chains and magnets that the teens created at last month’s meeting:

-Christie