TEENS - What's Up
summer book chats
Join us for biweekly informal book chats about your 
favorite summer reads, or rant about your not-so-favorites! Enter our prize drawing to be held at our End-of-Summer pizza party on August 20th. Hope to see you at our last Summer Book Chat is scheduled for Wednesday August 20th from 7-8pm in the YA area.
goodbye from jane
In case you haven't heard, I have been offered a new position in Reference Services at the Worcester Public Library, starting August 25th. I want you all to know just how much I have loved working with you all (but can it be called work when we're having so much fun?!), and I hope you'll keep advocating for better services, resources and SPACE! for teens.
If anyone wants to stay in touch, just drop me a line at WPL - I promise to write back! I will miss you, thank you for allowing me to be a part of your lives.
summer kickoff photos
Thank you to Dave Curry from 
Drums for One and All who helped us Kick Off Summer with a Sunday afternoon Drumming Circle on June 22nd! All participants had a chance to try several of his percussion instruments, imagining themselves around a tribal campfire or creating a sudden storm deep in the Amazon forest.
Click here to see photos!
fun sites of the month
Museum of Bad art
Check out this gem of a museum, right next door! The Museum of Bad Art is " the world's only museum 
dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms". Browse thumbnails of their collection of portraits, landscapes and what they term "unseen forces" on their website, or better yet, stop by and visit the gallery in the basement of the Dedham Community Theatre, right next to the men's room!
Scratch
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web! Scratch was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, in collaboration with the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Explore the galleries, projects and forums - to start, just click here!
TeenLinks
Check this webpage specifically geared towards teens, created by Minuteman librarians. It's loaded with links for homework help, provide booklists, search for colleges and more. Just click here!
teen advisory board
The Teen Advisory Board held its last meeting of the school year on May 14th, honoring outgoing senior Anugraha Raman for her participation as a member over the past two years. Anu has helped with programs, additions to the YA collection and even the design of our TAB t-shirt! She has chosen a collection of plays by Tom Stoppard to be added to the library's collection with a bookplate in her honor. We wish her all the best in the future, and will greatly miss her!
The Teen Advisory Board will resume monthly meetings in September. New members are always welcome, please join us!
Anime Club
Did you name your pet after an anime character? Do you know who Miyazaki and Takahata are? If so, you may be Otaku…join our Anime Club and find out about new releases, cosplay and fanfiction!
rants & raves
We're going to start a 
new feature on our Teen Page called Raves & Rants.
Just email us your reviews - good or bad - on books, movies or music and we'll post them right here. Jump in anytime!