We had a blast at November’s Guys Read meeting held at The Wedge and Capanna. We’re excited to get together again for a special Winter Break Guys Read this Friday, December 21st from 12-1 p.m. in Meeting Room E upstairs at ICPL for all guys in Grades 5-8. We’ll be discussing Scott Westerfeld’s amazing steampunk alternate history novel Leviathan.
We’re excited to bring in a special guest this month, we’ll be joined by local tinkerer inventor Michael Webb and his hand built 3D Printer! He’s kindly offered to show us how it works and we’ll have a chance to print off some cool Leviathan-inspired choice coins where one side will have a double-helix for the Darwinists and the other a wrench for the Clankers. If you’ve never seen what these printers can do, be sure to check out the yoda video below!
Guys Read, is a larger literacy initiative founded by children’s author Jon Scieszka, and is designed to draw attention to boys’ literacy and to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.
No reservation required but if you think you’ll come check it out then shoot me an email so I make sure to have enough food!
Questions? Email Jason at teens[at]icpl.org or call 319-887-6075.
There were six of us present for the Guys Read book club last Saturday, members present included: Theo, Grayson, Milos, Milo, Casey, and Jason (me). Since part of our goal is to spread our love of reading and inspire others to pick up our favorite books I thought it would be cool to have the meeting publicly at The Wedge next door! Even before we arrived, a happy stranger loudly exclaimed that the book Milos was carrying (Leviathan) was cool. “We know!”
We set up our sign, got a slice, and talked about books for an hour. Good times! Everyone was impressed with this month’s selections and we agreed we’ll be reading more from both of the series on our own. For the December meeting we decided to tackle Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan since it is on the Iowa Teen Award list, and, instead of a comic this month, we’ll sample from the Guys Read short story series (thanks to Oscar for the idea last month). A few members mentioned that they get extra credit for reading from the Teen Award list so that’s a bonus, also it was mentioned we should hit these teachers up for extra credit for attending Guys Read!
Most members were receptive to the idea of meeting for an extra hour of free reading as a group after the discussion time. I thought other young guys would benefit from seeing a group of guys hanging out publicly and reading for fun, might also be a good way of picking up a few new members! We’ll try this at our December meeting and see how it goes.
Here’s a list of some reading our crew is in the midst of:
We’re still looking for guys in Grades 5-8 to join our newest book club! We’re looking to match ICPL guys with books (and other readable things) in an interesting way. With pizza! So if you’re hungry for new reading discoveries (or just hungry) join Theo, Grayson, Joel, Oscar, and Jason this Saturday.
Our next meeting is this Saturday, November 17th from 12:00-1:00 p.m. upstairs in Meeting Room E (it’s along the back wall past the Computer Lab). We’ll be talking about the comic series Usagi Yojimba by Stan Sakai and/or The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trent Lee Stewart and illustrated by Carson Ellis. Don’t worry if you haven’t read these before, we’ll be doing other things as well and will vote on titles for the next meeting in December!
Guys Read, is a larger literacy initiative founded by children’s author Jon Scieszka, and is designed to draw attention to boys’ literacy and to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.
No reservation required but if you think you’ll come check it out then shoot me an email so I make sure to have enough food!
Questions? Email Jason at teens[at]icpl.org or call 319-887-6075.
Hey all you guy readers out there, come join our newest book club! Our mission is to match ICPL guys with books (and other readable things) in a fun, guys-only environment. With pizza of course! Aimed at guys in Grades 5-8.
Guys Read, is a larger literacy initiative founded by children’s author Jon Scieszka, and is designed to draw attention to boys’ literacy and to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.
No reservation required but if you think you’ll come then shoot me an email so I make sure to have enough food!
Photo from http://templetontwins.tumblr.com/aboutthebook
Our next meeting is this Saturday, October 27th from 12:00-1:00 p.m. upstairs in Meeting Room E (it’s along the back wall past the Computer Lab). We’ll be talking about the comic series Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi and/or The Templeton Twins Have An Idea by Ellis Weiner with illustrations by Jeremy Holmes. Don’t worry if you haven’t read these before, we’ll be doing other things as well and will vote on titles for the next meeting in November!
Questions? Email Jason at teens[at]icpl.org or call 319-887-6075.
We’re into the second half of the YALSA Teen Read Week™ ! What have you been reading so far?
I’m in the middle of Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus which City High School’s book club “City Reads” is discussing next Wednesday after school. City High students are encouraged to stop by the City High Library after school to join us! Talk with Ms. Fredrickson in the City High Library for more info. The Night Circus was a 2012 Alex Award (books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults) winner and should be a great discussion book.
The YALSA Teens’ Top Ten (a national “teen choice” reading list) was also announced this week and you can see the winners at this PDF link. Many of ICPL’s teen favorites are on there, including last month’s West High School A Novel Idea book club selection, Divergent, by Veronica Roth. West High Librarian Ms. Belding and the Novel Idea crew were nice enough to let me be there for that discussion and I look forward to next month’s talk about often banned author Lauren Myracle’s Shine and West High alum Zach Wahls’ My Two Moms!
Be sure to take a look at YALSA’s survey and vote on issues for next year’s Teen Read Week™.
If there’s Soccer being played, then it stands to reason we’re going to have a FoxSoccer-FIFA Club meeting. It’s Champions League ties this week (*sings falsetto* “The Chaam-pions”) so chances are good that we’ll be watching either the Benfica v FC Barcelona or Ajax v Real Madrid replays. Will Cesc be able to stay upright against the feisty Portuguese home side? (no spoilers!)
Benfica lost some star power during this summer’s transfer window but Barcelona may be without Puyol, Iniesta, Adriano, and will definitely miss out on Thiago and Piqué. And which Real will show up in Amsterdam? The one that demolished Deportivo or the fractious team that struggles with Getafe and Sevilla?
We can vote to watch any of the other great options including last year’s England champs Man City hosting last year’s German champs Borussia Dortmund.
West High School’s book club “A Novel Idea” meets today after school at 2:30 in the West High Library. They’ve been reading the wildly popular dystopian Fantasy novel “Divergent” by Veronica Roth. It won the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards “Favorite Book of 2011,” I have to say I was not a member of the “favorite” faction.
West High Librarians Beth and Jill have again allowed me to join you all to hash this one out. Hope to see you there!
World soccer fans will know that the International break is just wrapping up so we won’t be able to stream club matches for our first week. FoxSoccer2Go has the England v. Ukraine available though. It’s a World Cup qualifier and a chance for Ukraine to avenge their dubious loss from the Euro 2012 Group Stage match. Find out if Ukraine coach Oleg Blokhin again challenges anyone to “go outside and have a man conversation”!
From Sky Sports.com
We’ve also got FIFA12 for PS3 for those that prefer to wait for the English Premier League to restart on Saturday. If you have an EPL Fantasy Team be sure to come prepared to talk strategy with me! #YayaAndTevezFTW
We’re excited to announce that the Iowa City CoderDojo has partnered with us to offer their volunteer-led coding workshops here for students in grades 5-12! Our first meeting will be on Saturday, September 22nd from 2-4 p.m. in the Computer Lab on the second floor. CoderDojo volunteers and ICPL staff will help teach you and your friends how to code, develop websites, apps, programs, games and more with HTML and Python.
If you’re interested but unable to come to the first meeting please join us at any of the follow up sessions on the 2nd Saturday of every month from 2-4 p.m. :
October 13, 2012
November 10, 2012
December 8, 2012
January 12, 2013
February 9, 2013
March 9, 2013
April 13, 2013
May 11, 2013
If you have any questions you can ask us at teens[at]icpl.org
We had a blast at November’s Guys Read meeting held at The Wedge and Capanna. We’re excited to get together again for a special Winter Break Guys Read this Friday, December 21st from 12-1 p.m. in Meeting Room E upstairs at ICPL for all guys in Grades 5-8. We’ll be discussing Scott Westerfeld’s amazing steampunk alternate history novel Leviathan.
