These three books are being added to the YIC's library.
After by Amy Efaw.
In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die, and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder. The Secret to Teen Power by Paul Harrington.
"So what's the big secret? And what can it do for you? Well, if you've ever had a dream, a secret ambition, a passionate desire or goal, but had no idea how to make it real, then The Secret to Teen Power is for you. The Secret has already shown millions of people all over the world how to change their lives and make their dreams come true. And you can do it too. The Secret gives you the power to have, do, or be anything you choose. We're talking wealth, success, great relationships, better health and self-esteem... anything your heart desires. It's all totally achievable. And all you need to do is discover this Secret"--Cover. Muchacho by LuAnne Johnson.
Living in a neighborhood of drug dealers and gangs in New Mexico, high school junior Eddie Corazon, a juvenile delinquent-in-training, falls in love with a girl who inspires him to rethink his life and his choices.
That's right!! Issue 4 of What's Up? Magazine is printed and ready to be distributed this evening to the residents at the Lancaster County Youth Intervention Center! I am so excited to show this to my program tonight. The cover design looks fantastic - done by William "Mickey" Beck of Columbia, PA (local graphic artist) who so generously volunteered his talents for several issues of the magazine. I hope you are excited to take a look at this!! It will be up on the blog here soon!
Tonight's program is a bit of a release! The title: Oodles of Doodles. It's precisely that! We're going to draw and look at drawings, play games with drawings, do brainteasers that involve drawings. I think it will be a lot of fun! We will even do a read aloud about drawing!
That's not all! Tonight marks the end of the latest contest that What's Up with the Library? has hosted at the Youth Intervention Center. This was in honor of Teen Read Week. A contestant was pulled out of the drawing and they will receive a HUGE basket of goodies thanks to Renee Christiansen, Youth Services, Library System of Lancaster County. Thanks Renee!! The basket includes notepads, writing materials, snacks, a calculator, a t-shirt, kazoo, and coupons to ISAAC's! Neato! Thanks to all who have participated!
Jay was fantastic during his visit! He began his presentation with a story about his childhood and a magical wallet that ALWAYS had $50! Honestly, this trick had us ALL amazed!!! After we picked up our dropped jaws, Jay impressed the residents with some of his tricks; he passed out some supplies and allowed the kids to make their own with his careful instructions! They were practicing on each other and the staff. They seemed to really enjoy it!
Thank you, Jay, for being such an avid library supporter. During his presentation, he reminded the residents of his childhood trips to the library to pick out magic books filled with tricks. Jay learned from the books and traveled to birthday parties to put on his own magic shows!
If you are interested in finding some magic books at a public library in Lancaster County, check out our Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) here.
Wednesday, September 2nd the Youth Intervention Center and "What's up with the library?" welcomes Jay Sterling (international speaker, professional motivator, award-winning entertainer), to visit with the residents and show off his tricks!
Dr. Jay Sterling will share tricks and magic in a presentation filled with "art, science, and illusion." We are thoroughly excited to see what he has in store for the evening! I will post back after the program to share some of the details!! Be sure to check in!
Tonight is a fantastic program by MIMI SHAPIRO, a local artist!! She makes beautiful "altered books" and will be sharing her art and talents with the residents this evening, who will be presented with the opportunity to make their very own altered books from old bookmobile library books.
Mimi is also a WRITER! She writes beautiful poetry that she incorporates in her artistic books.
Mimi has received prestigious honors and awards around the world. We are blessed to have her visit the Youth Intervention Center and help us reach out to at-risk teens.
This beautiful picture featuring Mimi's art is from her web page. Please view her gallery, read her poetry, and check out her biography by visiting her at: http://www.mimiartz.com/
This program is happening in BIG thanks to the Library System of Lancaster County's Youth Services Department, Renee Christiansen, in celebration of the 2009 Summer Reading Program "Be Creative-" and "Express Yourself-" where? "@ the library!"
Here it is! Hot off the press! I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I do, they just keep getting better and better!!
*A SPECIAL NOTE*AND THANK YOU* goes out to William "Mickey" Beck, local artist from Columbia, PA, for creating this AMAZING cover for us! We are hoping to see Mickey this fall visiting the residents with a program on graphic design!!
Tonight I will be visiting the YIC for a creative program that focuses on the future! We will do an icebreaker where each resident puts a "dream job" in the bookmobile bag, we'll pull them out one at a time and guess which job belongs with who! Then we will do an exciting writing activity called "Letter to myself" from MacGregor's Teambuilding with teens: Activities for leadership, decision making, & group success book. The residents will write about where they wish to be one year from today. One year from today, the letters will be mailed to their homes! After this activity, we will take a short peronality type assessment... a quick quiz from Farr & Shatkin's 50 best jobs for your personality that will show the residents the kinds of careers they might be interested in according to their personality type. Next, we'll learn about resumes and interviewing for a job. The night will conclude with an explanation of how the library can help individuals prepare for careers, create resumes, and successfully interview for a new position. We will introduce the new Live Homework Help available through their public library's subscription! We'll browse books with helpful tips and snack together.
After reading for 7 hours, teens fill out a form and receive a coupon for a free Rita's ice! Then, their entry form will be entered into a drawing for a tote full of library goodies!
Also in celebration of EXPRESSING OURSELVES, the "What's Up with the Library?" staff hosted the Oodles of Doodles (drawing) Program and the Kids as Writers (writing) Progam last month. The residents really enjoyed exercising their creativity!
Upcoming events include a visit from comic connoisseur Joe Miller and artist Mimi Shapiro!
Do you live in Lancaster County? If you are interested in participating in the 2009 summer reading program, please visit us online and find a local public library near you! Also, find out what special programs are going on now!
Tonight, Joe Miller will visit the Youth Intervention Center for a program. He will discuss the history of comics, how comics are made, give the residents their very own FREE comics, and even give them an opportunity to create their own comics!
We are so excited for Joe to come tonight!
If you would like more information about Joe and awesome job, The Comic Store, please be sure to check out his website: http://www.comicstorepa.com/
Author Holly Payne visited the Youth Intervention Center on June 3rd to discuss the release of her latest book Kingdom of Simplicity on June 6th. As a former local of Lancaster County, she discussed her inspiration and the events in her life that led to this Amish story of forgiveness.
The bookmobile now has two copies of this fascinating novel and two more copies have been added to the Youth Intervention Center's library!
During the program, Holly shared a letter with the residents from a tragic past experience. She added that the letter and the writing of this novel led to her understanding of forgiveness. After passing around paper and pencils, the residents wrote adventure letters to their role models, and many of them shared! It was a very exciting program and the residents had many excited questions for the author. The evening ended, of course, with several autographs! :)
It's now available online! I hope you enjoy it! We want to thank all the residents that participated. It was a fantastic issue and we had a lot of fun putting it together!
Everyone! Please feel free to tell us what you think!
Tonight we release Issue 2 of What's Up? Magazine!!!!!!!! We are really excited to see what everyone thinks. Check back to the blog here soon for a digital PDF copy!
Our new program this evening is called Excellence & Awards. The residents will learn about The Michael L. Printz Award in recognition of Children's Book Week. They will decorate character potatoes to be entered into the annual Potato Awards! This program will help everyone to start considering what skills and traits go into excellence. They will listen to a read aloud of Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta, the 2009 winner of the Printz award!
Hello folks. Tonight we are traveling to the YIC for the Kids as Writers program. We will make modpodged journals and participate in a creative writing activity. The residents will learn about publishing, hear a Teen Ink read aloud, and submit writings for the next issue of What's Up? magazine!
And that's right, today is the deadline for submissions! We can't wait to put Issue 2 together. It will be released on May 6, 2009 both in print and here on the blog. Be sure to check back.
We're bringing back an older program that we used when we first started visiting the YIC! It's a fun program filled with hands-on activities. At the start of this program, the teens will need to learn to work together in order to complete a group juggling ice breaker.
Some read alouds like One Red Dot by David A. Carter will show the residents the many amazing objects and designs, even 3-D ones, that can be made with paper! This book is too cool, see what's inside here.
After the read alouds, we're passing out origami "how to" books, pulling up chairs, and helping each other figure out how to make animals, water balloons, hearts, and many other fascinating objects from a single square sheet of paper! Residents will learn a bit about this Japenese art form and will listen to authentic Japanese music while folding.
Hello! We are ready this week to introduce an improved version of an old program, Folktales & Cultures. On Wednesday, we will be visiting the Youth Intervention Center (YIC) to read Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, an African tale by John Steptoe, and The Red-Ribbon Leprechaun, an Irish folktale. The residents will create and play Mancala, a traditional game that originated in ancient Ethiopia, with simple materials like egg cartons and stones. They will play an Irish memory game as a group that utilizes several Irish and Celtic symbols and their meanings. After learning a little about Saint Patrick and enjoying a treat, the group will look through some selected library books about cultures and their folktales.
I have already received a message from Bryan, the program coordinator at the YIC. Resident's have been submitting their writings for the upcoming issue of What's Up? magazine already! We look forward to reading them this week.
We want to encourage anyone interested to post their writings or upload their artwork onto the blog! Thank you!
Hello everyone! We hope you enjoyed reading our first issue of What's Up? Magazine. It was a pleasure to piece together for the teens.
Below are some additional writings by teens at the Youth Intervention Center. They were provided by Scott Feifer, a teacher that conducts two programs at the center, "The Writing Circle" and "People and Stories." These writings were from a Valentines program with "The Writing Circle." Thank you, Scott, for sharing them with us! We hope the readers enjoy them.
Comments and additional Valentines are welcome!
It’s Valentine’s and I feel so empty and weak in my heart.I look at the blocks in my cell, and everything goes dark. Then I think of y’all on my last Valentine’s Day.Then reality hits, and everything else fades away.You guys are the only thing keeping me together, because I know my memories of y’all will last forever.I hope y’all can feel the love I express through this pen and know that you’re just not my family but my best friends. I’m trying not to cry as I write this poem, but this is the only way my love is showing. -James
To A Special Someone!
The moment I saw you and felt that Crazy sensation, I couldn’t help it but tell you that I Love You! -Rodolfo
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Every night I may dream of you
I may love you I don’t know
But you are my mother that I do know
Happy Valentine’s Day
-Paige
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I miss the kids at Garden Spot
I miss the music I listen to.
I miss the concerts
I mostly miss my family and my friends
Mom, I’m sorry.Let me come home.
PLEASE.
-Brad, 15
I thank you for being on my side and not giving up on me and teaching me to be more respectful.I couldn’t do it without you and Maria being on my side. You’ve been like a father to me.In the short time we had, I realized it’s good to take the first step, and I will always remember you and Maria in my stories I tell to my kids.And when you go and get that surgery, I hope you stay strong. -Rachon
This message is for Maria:
Thank you for all you’ve done for me.It means a lot to me because some people never fought for me to be better, and when I do bad you always give me advice to be better and try to do my best.You share a lot of your caring and for me usually I’m sometimes shy around new caseworkers.I think God gave you a gift to work with me, and out of all the caseworkers I’ve had you were simply the best one I ever had. -Rachon
Charles,
I love you more than oreos love cream, more than 7th graders love to daydream, more than peanut butter loves jelly.You’re best friend and brother, the one who makes my heart laugh when it wants to cry.Happy Valentine’s Day.I’m sending hugs and kisses your way.
Love, Diana
Dear Dad,
I know that sometimes it hurts to love me,
And I’m sorry that I’ve bruised your heart
and made it bleed
I make my amends to you once again.
I miss you, I love you, and I appreciate all that you’ve done.
Thanks for being here and loving me unconditionally.
Hello everyone! I hope you are having a lovely week. It is certainly springy here in Lancaster! I wanted to let you all know that the first issue of What's Up? Magazine is now available in pdf on this blog. How exciting! Look for present and new issues on the right side where it says "What's Up? Magazines." Take a look and be sure to check back here to write us some comments on what you thought. We would love your feedback! Let's make the next issue a hit!
What's Up? Magazine's first issue is due out this week! They will be taken to the Youth Intervention Center at the time of our "Oodles of Doodles" program in the evening on Wednesday, February 4, 2009. Inside, readers will find a brief description of what's up magazine, poems, true stories, and words of wisdom written by teen residents at the YIC! We hope it is thoroughly enjoyed and sparks interest for future issues to be published!
Thank you to everyone who has helped make this publication happen. Our goal is to publish a second issue on May 6, 2009. All writing and artwork should be submitted by April 15, 2009. How exciting!
My name is Laura, referred to as Miss Laura by many of our young library patrons.
What's Up? Magazine was designed and compiled through the Library System of Lancaster County's "What's Up with the Library?" Program at the Lancaster County Youth Intervention Center (YIC) in Pennsylvania. My fellow "What's Up?" staff member Joan and I created this publication for teens by teens. In our program, we travel to the YIC twice a month to encourage young residents to read, write, and enjoy the free services the public library has to offer.
This blog is a place where we will share writing and art created by any young adults and residents at the YIC, encourage creative writing among youth and teens, provide constructive criticism for each other and our writing, and share our ideas and thoughts about life, books, and libraries!
The Secret to Teen Power by Paul Harrington.
Muchacho by LuAnne Johnson.
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