Design a t-shirt

If you are creative and/or in need of some community service hours then submit a design for our Summer '10 Volunteer T-shirt Contest. The winning design will be professionally printed on the t-shirts to be worn by our volunteers this summer.

Details:

-The design must state the theme "Makes Waves @ Your Library".

-Must be your original artwork.

-Design for one side of the shirt only.

-The design should be outlined with a black marker with no visible pencil lines on 8 1/2 x 11 paper.

-You can use up to 2 colors but you must submit a black and white copy as well.

-Due @ the Library by April 23.

-Open to RVC cardholders in grades 7-12.

-Include name, grade, and phone # with you submission.

-Participants will be awarded community service hours.

Questions? Facebook us @ RVC PL.

Community Service Week Wrap Up

Community Service week was great! Thank you to all who participated, you did an AMAZING job! If you need certificates for school proving you did community service, come in to the Library we have them printed out. And if you need photos for your project (see the slide show on this page) you can print them out from our website @ http://www.rvclibrary.org/teens/photos.html

or on our Facebook page: RVC PL

Mockingjay

Just to wet our appetites, the title to the final book in the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins was announced this week. The book will be titled Mockingjay and the picture of the jacket is shown above. That's the good news. The bad news is that the book won't hit the streets until August 24. Yup. :(

Snow Day Reading

Snow days are always the perfect excuse to curl up with a good book and read. I did just that this week. The two books on my nightstand were The Knife of Never Letting Go by Ness and Rosie and Skate by Bauman. Both are great.

The Knife of Never Letting Go is the sci-fi tale of Todd Hewitt, who has been raised in a small town on another planet. A plague has caused men's thoughts be broadcast constantly for all to hear, allows animals to speak and all the women to die off...or so it seems. As Todd approaches his 13th birthday, he finds himself on the run from a madman preacher and an army of men from his town. Every chapter ended with a cliffhanger (which made the story awfully contrived at some points). All in all this is an exciting read and I'm really looking forward to reading the next book The Ask and the Answer.

Rosie and Skate is just a lovely, sweet book. Told in alternating chapters, Rosie and Skate (who are sisters) detail the highs and lows of their lives. The girls who live down the Jersey deal with their alcoholic father, new relationships, and heartbreaks. I loved so many of the characters in this book. It has a good sense of place too.

Community Service Week!

Next week, February 16-20, is Community Service week here at the Library. That's right, we have a whole entire week dedicated to Community Service (minus Monday since we are closed for Presidents Day). If you need volunteer hours for school (or just want to be nice and volunteer your time) and you are a RVC Library card holder in grade 7 or 8 get yourself in to the Library immediately and sign up! We have tons of different opportunities and they're fun too...I promise!

Wish You Were Dead

I just started reading Wish You Were Dead by Todd Strasser last night and I'm loving it! I couldn't put it down and I wound up staying up way later than I had wanted. Here is a book trailer for this creepy mystery.