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Scavenger Hunt at the King Library
Summer Reading Celebration
You're Invited!
Sunday, June 3 from 1-4 p.m
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
The kickoff event invites people of all ages to participate in a scavenger hunt inside the King Library (Lower Level-4th Floor).
The scavenger hunt will be divided into three groups: families with small children, teens and adults. Each group will have their own set of clues and will have to search for hidden treasures inside the library to be eligible to win a prize.
Prizes include tickets to ...
- Great America
- Tech Museum
- Laser Quest
- Happy Hollow Park and Zoo
- Children’s Museum
- San Jose Giants
The kickoff event will also feature a community resource fair and plenty of live entertainment.
Downtown Parking:
Free parking in the street and the 4th and San Fernando Street Garage located across from the King Library
May teensReach News @ Evergreen
Summer is around the corner and we need to get ready for the Summer Reading Celebration program! If you're an Evergreen teensReach member, please come to the training session on either Wednesday, May 30th OR Thursday, May 31st (4pm to 6pm) to receive more information about this program and learn how to get more involved. The Summer Reading Program starts on Friday, June 1st and your DAILY participation for this program will be much appreciated!
Besides the Summer Reading program, here are some volunteer opportunities that you can participate this month:
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Mother's Day Craft for Kids - Thursday, May 3rd from 4pm-5pm
Help kids create a special craft for Mother's Day! - Make a Lei - Monday, May 7th from 4pm-5pm in the community room. Assist children in creating a lei. Materials will be provided.
- Duct Tape Roses - Wednesday, May 16th from 4 pm to 5 pm in the community room. Come and make beautiful roses out of duct tape. All materials will be provided.
- Teen Rock Concert - Wednesday, May 16th from 6pm-730pm in the community room. Come to our rock concert! Dressed to Impress and Layla will be performing, both finalists of the recent Battle of the Bands competition!
- Games for Kids: Dream Big - Thursday, May 23rd at 5pm. Come and help kids play a variety of games and puzzles!
The next teensReach meeting at Evergreen Branch will be on Wednesday, May 16th from 5 pm to 6 pm inside the Community Room. Come and be informed about upcoming volunteer opportunities.
Not a teensReach member? Sign-Up today at your nearest SJPL branch: http://www.sjpl.org/teensreach
Kids: Ready to Spy?
Love to spy? Then check out the following spy titles at your library today! Be entertained as characters go on exciting adventures to infiltrate their enemies and see how secret agents handle the challenges of going incognito to accomplish challenging missions.
Spy Stories
NERDS : National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society by Michael Buckley
A group of unpopular misfits from elementary school create a spy network. They combine their talents and skills and use astonishing gadgetry to fight evil and save the world from notorious villains.
Secret Agent Jack Stalwart by Elizabeth Singer Hunt
A popular action-packed spy series, Jack Stalwart is a secret agent who travels around the world to defeat sinister enemies and fulfill missions assigned by the Global Protection Force. Besides pursuing spy missions, he is also on a quest to find his missing older brother, Max.
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Reynie Muldoon, an orphaned child with special abilities decides to join an elite team of talented spies known as the Mysterious Benedict Society. They soon go on an adventurous journey of espionage and self-discovery to defeat a master criminal who plans to take over the world. Readers will be intrigued by interesting characters and a gripping plot.
Spy Guides
Spy Technology by Ron Fridell
A useful guide containing information and illustrations about some of the gadgets and tools that are used by secret agents to accomplish their missions.
Top Secret: Shady Tales of Spies and Spying by Laura Buller
Know the history and techniques of espionage and intelligence work, including personnel, cryptography, equipment, and other details to become a successful spy!
Spies & Detectives by Hazel Poole
Learn about different types of spy activities and find out how secret agents use communication, code breaking and a variety of other techniques to uncover their enemies. This book also contains some information about a range of weapons and gadgets that are used by secret agents.
For more recommendations, please see a librarian at your library.
Book Trailer Contest - June 1 - July 31, 2012
Teens: want to do something more imaginative than just writing a review for Summer Reading books that you have read? Create and submit a book trailer review for Summer Reading, and you could win a Kindle Fire! Upload a short clip, no longer than 4 minutes, to YouTube, providing your review of the book. Be creative! The contest is open to all participants in the Teen Summer Reading Celebration.
How to enter:
- Create your own book trailer, reviewing a book that you read for Summer Reading. You can submit more than one video, but each video has to be for a separate book.
- Post the video on YouTube using the tag: SJPL2012SRC
- Sign up for Summer Reading here, starting in a few weeks.
- When you log the book you read on the Summer Reading website, make sure to include a link to your video in the review field.
Entries will be judged on creativity and content by a panel of library staff.
Need some examples? Check out the winning entry from last year's Book Trailer Contest, created by Nathan Verdonk.
Here are links to some professional book trailers:
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
Teens who submit links to their Book Trailer will automatically be entered in the contest. The top 3 winners will receive:
- 1st place: Kindle Fire
- 2nd place: $50 gift card for iTunes
- 3rd place: $25 gift card for Jamba Juice
Entries for the contest must be submitted between June 1 and July 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in August.
Graphic Novel Making Contest - June 1 - July 31, 2012
If you have a talent for creating comic/manga style illustrated short stories, you are invited to enter San José Public Library’s Graphic Novel Making Contest for all ages as part of our Summer Reading Celebration, 2012. This contest is sponsored by San José Public Library, Hijinx Comics, San José Museum of Art and TRY Japan Culture Group.
Here’s how to enter …
- Create your own comic book with a maximum length of 8 pages, including the cover page.
- Use letter-size paper (8.5 x 11) with black-and-white drawings and text on one side only
- Each submission must be the creative and original work of a single individual—the author/illustrator.
- Computer generated images are acceptable as long as they are your original work (no clip art)
- Consider submitting a photocopy that is an accurate reflection of the original (as submissions are non-returnable).
- San José Public Library reserves the right to reproduce your work. You can reuse all your work after the contest
- Be sure to print and complete the creative works release form. Include your Name, Age, Contact Information and Signature.
- Entries can be submitted to any San José Public Library location no later than 8p.m. on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. There is a limit of one entry per contestant.
Entries will be judged on content and illustrations by a panel of library staff and comic industry professionals. All cash prizes will be awarded as gift cards.
- Children (up to age 6): first place will receive Art Supplies
- Children (7-12): first place $40, second place $20
- Teens (ages 13-17): first place $100; second place $70; third place $50
- Adults (age 18 and above): first place $100; second place $70; third place $50
Winners will be announced and prizes awarded at a reception to be held at the Berryessa Branch Library on Saturday, August 25th at 2:00 p.m.in the Community Room. Check out the award winning entries from 2011 and 2010.
Learn how to make your own comic book, graphic novel or manga! Author Oliver Chin will be teaching this free workshop for teens at some San José Public Library branches.
San José Public Library staff members are ineligible to participate.
San José Public Library reserves the right to refuse submissions that are not appropriate for a general audience.
Tìm Trợ Giúp Về Bệnh Nghiện Cờ Bạc
Quý vị có nhận thức về Cờ Bạc như là một bệnh nghiện có ảnh hưởng tai hại đến chính bản thân và mọi người chung quanh không?
Quý vị có biết Cờ Bạc có thể gây nên các vấn đề xã hội, cảm xúc căng thẳng, và khó khăn về tài chính? Cờ Bạc còn làm ảnh hưởng đến các mối quan hệ, tình cảm, sức khoẻ, và ngay cả việc làm và học hành.
Xin giới thiệu quý vị đến GIFT (Gaining Insight into keeping Families Together) là một chương trình giáo dục và cung cấp dịch vụ tư vấn của cơ quan Asian American Recovery Services, Inc. (AARS)*.
Mục tiêu chung của chương trình GIFT là nhằm giúp cộng đồng nâng cao nhận thức về việc Cờ Bạc Có Vấn Đề cùng những loại nghiện ngập khác và giúp thăng tiến đời sống của những người vướng phải việc Cờ Bạc Có Vấn Đề và gia đình của họ, hầu có thể đạt được một đời sống lành mạnh.
Các dịch vụ bao gồm:
- Sự Nhận Thức Và Giáo Dục: qua truyền thông/kịch nghệ, các buổi tiếp xúc với cộng đồng, các buổi hội thảo và thuyết trình.
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Hỗ Trợ:
- Dịch vụ tư vấn: Cơ quan AARS cung cấp các dịch vụ tư vấn cho cá nhân, nhóm và gia đình. Ngoài ra, cơ quan còn cung cấp chương trình hỗ trợ ngay tại nhà.
- Tài nguyên, thông tin: Cơ quan AARS hỗ trợ cộng đồng qua những sự nối kết họ với các nguồn tài nguyên, thông tin hữu ích.
Để được thêm thông tin xin liên lạc (408) 271-3900.
* Mục tiêu của cơ quan Asian American Recovery Services, Inc. (AARS) là nhằm giảm thiểu tỷ lệ vướng mắc và tác động của sự lạm dụng thuốc trong các cộng đồng Á Châu và Thái Bình Dương ở Vùng Vịnh San Francisco. Văn phòng của cơ quan AARS tọa lạc tại: 1340 Tully Road, Phòng 301 & 304, San Jose CA 95122.
We need your suggestions for the IMPAC Dublin award
Have you read 1Q84, 11/22/63, The Leftovers, The Marriage Plot, State of Wonder, Swamplandia, The Tiger’s Wife?
These are among the best fiction for 2011 as nominated by NPR, the New York Times, Salon, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal.
If you have read any of these, vote for the novel that you think San Jose Public Library should submit for the 2013 IMPAC Dublin Literary award.
Other titles (novels, not short stories) welcome for submission if published in 2011.
Click on Add new comment below and let us know the title. Our deadline is April 25th.
You Belong @ Your Library
Hey everyone its National Library Week, April 8-14!
Celebrate National Library Week with a fun Scavenger Hunt at your local library. All participants will receive a prize. This program is designed for children ages 6 and up.
While at the library visit the information desk and pick up a heart and tell us why you love your library.
April teensReach News @ Evergreen
Hope this week blows a little spring your way! April is here and Evergreen library continues to be a fun place to be this month. If you're a teensReach member @ Evergreen branch, here are a few upcoming programs that you can participate and volunteer:
- Physics with Sound and Motion - Monday, April 9th in the community room (come at 3:45 pm, ends at 5 pm). Help set-up and assist kids experiment with paper airplanes, stomp rockets, and a variety of noisemakers in a study of motion, forces, and sound wave.
- Math Fun: Fun with Fractions - Monday, April 16th from 3:45 pm to 5 pm in the community room. Help children explore fractions with fun math activities.
- Technology Petting Zoo - Wednesday, April 18th from 4 pm to 5 pm in the community room. Come and check out the latest tablet computers and e-readers! iPad, Kindle, etc. Learn how each device works and learn to use them.
- Teen Craft Program: Recycled Magazine Creations - Wednesday, April 25th, 4 pm in the community room. You and your friends can create artwork using recycled magazines! Materials will be provided.
Lastly, the following are events you can particpate for your own personal enrichment:
- iPad Art (Wednesday, April 11th, 5 pm to 6 pm): Learn to create digital paintings using your iPad! Know the apps you need to create a masterpiece!
- Kaplan Free Practice ACT/SAT Test (Thursday, April 12th, 1 pm to 5 pm): Prepare for the SAT or Act Test! Sign-up if you're interested.
The next teensReach meeting at Evergreen Branch will be on Wednesday, April 18th from 4 pm to 5 pm inside the Community Room. For our next meeting we will have a cool technology petting zoo, so you don't want to miss this meeting! Try out the latest tablet computers and e-readers such as the iPad, Kindle, Nook and more!
Not a teensReach member? Sign-Up today at your nearest SJPL branch: http://www.sjpl.org/teensreach
Kids: Celebrate National Gardening Month!
April is National Gardening Month! Help your child discover the fun activity of gardening! Here are some recommended books to get your child excited about gardening:
Gardening Stories
My Garden by Kevin Henkes
Imagine how fun it would be to be in a magical garden where jelly beans would grow on bushes and flowers that would change colors and patterns by just thinking of them! Read this book to learn more about this beautiful garden that a creative girl is envisioning.
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
One day, Liam discovers a dying garden and decides to nurture it back to life by taking care of it. As Liam continues to care for the garden, it grows and transforms a barren city into a beautiful, lush place!
A Green, Green Garden by Mercer Mayer
Spring has arrived and Little Critter and his family work on growing a garden. Throughout this book, watch them take care of their garden by watering the plants, weeding and waiting for something to sprout! Be inspired to plant something in your garden by reading this book!
Gardening Guides
Kids' Container Gardening: Year-Round Projects for Inside and Out by Cindy Krezel
Work on 18 gardening projects that are easy, simple and fun! Make special projects such as "Great Garden Bowls for Mom" and sand art terrariums! This practical book also includes a glossary and a list of plant resources.
Grow It, Cook It by Jill Bloomfield
This book combines simple instructions and helpful illustrations on how to plant and cook your own homegrown vegetables. Make delicious recipes including onion and leek soup, giant beanstalk stir-fry, carrot and orange muffins and more!
Garden by Robert Maass
This book contains colorful photos and information about a different variety of gardens and how to maintain them.
And as always, you can ask a librarian to help you find more gardening resources at your local library branch.
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