Anime Club
Monday, April 4, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Join us in Meeting Room A every month to hang out with other people who love anime as we watch shows and eat Japanese snacks.

Anime Club meets the first Monday of each month. Mark your calendars for the next meeting on May 2!

Game Day!
Wednesday, April 13, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Stop by after school to play video games and board games in Meeting Room A. We've got Mario Kart, Minecraft, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Dance Central, Guitar Hero, Twister, Apples to Apples, and lots more! 
 
Do you play Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the Gathering, or another card game? Bring your friends and stake out a corner of the room for an epic game.

Star Wars Party!
Wednesday, May 4th, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
May the 4th be with you! Stop by our Star Wars Party for fun crafts, snacks, and Star Wars themed fun! 
 
 
 
Finding Your Roots:
A Beginner's Guide
Presented by the Iowa Genealogical Society
Saturday, April 30, 10:00 - 12:00 p.m.
Theresa Liewer, President of the Iowa Genealogical Society, will present this beginning genealogy program to anyone interested in learning more about family history. She will cover organizing your information: forms, charts, physical storage of papers, and an overview of software programs. She'll also discuss how to evaluate sources and learn about the pitfalls of relying on other's research, both online and in books. 
Together, participants will explore genealogy websites and work through some basic building blocks of genealogy, including personal family items and census records. Attendees are encouraged to bring birth and death dates and locations for their grandparents or great-grandparents so Theresa can help try to locate more information about them. By the end of the program, everyone should have a good idea about how to start, where to go for more information, and how much fun family research can be.


Gardening the Amana Way
Presented by Larry & Wilma Rettig
Thursday, April 28, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Larry and Wilma Rettig will have you itching to get out working in your gardens! Larry is the author of Gardening the Amana Way, published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013. He'll have books available for purchase.
Larry and Wilma organized the Amana Heritage Seed Bank, which preserves vegetable varieties that their ancestors brought with them from Germany in the mid-1800s. Wilma and Larry raise all their own fruits and vegetables organically and no-till. Their gardens-flower and vegetable-have been featured in local, regional, and national media and on many tours to the Amana villages. The gardens, aptly named Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens after a cottage that sits on their property, are currently listed in the Archives of American Gardens at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Their Cottage-in-the-Meadow website is popular with gardeners on the Internet. 



Check out the Rainbow List 2016 Top Ten books. Find the full 2016 Rainbow List at the Rainbow Project Site.



 
Check out the 2016 Printz Award Winner: Bone Gap by Laura Ruby and the 2016 Printz Award Honors: The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick and Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope P�rez. Find past Printz Award winners at the Printz Award Site.  


            

Check out the display in the Teen area or reserve one of our picks below. Find even more suggestions on the Teen Reads section on the library's website.


            
Share Your Art in the Library
 
We want musicians, artists, dancers, and anyone who wants to use the library lobby to share their art with the world. Want to set up an easel and paint, letting people who walk by watch ? Want to do a preview of your ballet recital or your violin performance? Talk to us! 
 
If you'd like to paint, draw, play music, sing, dance, or otherwise share your interest in the arts, just send an email to [email protected]
and let us know what date and time you'd like to come. We provide the space, you provide the arts! We'll also do a little promotion for you at our website and Facebook page.

Come in, create, and share in the library! 
 
Take and Make

Stuck at the library, waiting for a ride? Need something to do on a rainy day? When you're bored, look on the little table in the Teen area for crafts, word games, coloring pages, and more! Make it at the library, or take it home, your choice.


Little Free Library for Teens
Have you found the Little Free Library filled with books for Teens? It's on the far side of the library's east parking lot, next to the daycare.

What's a Little Free Library? It's a great way to get books totally free (no checkouts, no fines!) and to share books you no longer want. Give a book, take a book. All free!
Book a Trip:
Year-Round Reading Program

This all-ages reading program couldn't be easier: just pick up a log and start reading. Check off each state as you read a book that either takes place in that state, is about that state, or is by an author who is from that state. You can read fiction or non-fiction. We've got suggested books for each state, or pick out your own!

As you check off each state, get a dot at the Information Desk to mark your progress on our map. When you've read a book from all 50 states, pick up a special prize! Find more information on the Book a Trip page on our website.


Library Hours
Monday - Thursday
9:30 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Friday and Saturday
9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sunday
2 - 5 p.m.



Library Apps
Want to look for books and check your library account when you're on the go? Download BookMyne for Android or the MLN2GO app for iPhones.