December 28, 2012 

 
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    Exciting News for Teens!
        
    Teens ages 13 to 17 can now check out Kindles, DVDs and Blurays!
     
    Just bring a parent or guardian to either branch to give permission.  Once your card status is updated, you will have full borrowing privileges to check out Kindles, DVDs and Blurays.
    In This Issue
    Zinio!
    Teen News
    KI Children's Events
    KI Family Events
    KI Adult & Teen Events
    CEN Children's Events
    CEN Adult & Teen Events
    Quick Links
     
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    Kent Island Branch Children's Events
     
    Mother Goose on the Loose
    Fridays, January 4th to 25th at 9:45 and 11:00 a.m.
    For ages 3 months to 36 months with a caregiver
    Rhymes, music, puppets and movement followed by play time. No registration required!
      
    Storytime
    Magic Candle Stories
    Monday, January 7 at 6:30 p.m.
    For kindergarten to 5th grade
    Meet in the children's room for 45 minutes of stories "by candlelight" and creative activities. Free. No registration.  

      

    Story Time

    Thursdays, January 17th to February 21st at 10:30 a.m.
    For ages 2 to 5 years with a caregiver
    Read, sing, play, talk, and write about a different theme each     week. Stories followed by craft. Free. No registration.
      
    Read to Rover
    Thursday, January 17 from 4:10 to 5:00 p.m.
    For kindergarten to 5th grade
    Read to a dog from Pets-on-Wheels.  Please call 410-643-8161 to sign up for a time slot. Free.
      
    Wigglebotics: Build a Self-Propelled Drawing Machine
    Friday, January 18 at 2:30 p.m.
    For grades 1st to 5th
    Presented in conjunction with FutureMakers. Create a wiggling, drawing machine! Use electricity, household materials, motors, wires and batteries to create circuits, and apply physics to make the machines draw. No experience required; all materials provided. Free. No registration, but limited to the first 25. Made possible by a grant from the Sinksy-Kresser-Racusin Memorial Foundation.
    Kent Island Branch Family Events

      

    Art at Noon  

    Saturdays, January 5, 12, 19 & 26

    from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.

    For ALL ages!

    Use recycled materials

    to create a piece of art.  Supplies provided.

    Led by artist Glenn Shiring.

     

     

     

    Midweek Maker Meetup

    Wednesday, January 9 from 10:30 a.m. to noon

    For ages 6 to adult!

    Using recycled materials, create plarn (plastic yarn) projects.  If possible, please bring plastic bags or newspaper wrappers in many colors and larger crochet hooks or knitting needles.         

    Kent Island Branch Adult & Teen Events
     
    Non-fiction Book Club
    Thursday, January 24 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
    Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright
    Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia-the country where she was born. Albright's experiences, and those of her family, provide a lens through which to view the most tumultuous dozen years in modern history. Join us as we discuss this exploration of the past with timeless dilemmas in mind and, simultaneously, a journey with universal lessons that is intensely personal.
      
    Centreville Branch Children's Events
    I Love My Library!

         

    Mother Goose on the Loose

    Tuesdays, January 15 to February 5 at 10:30 a.m.
    For ages 3 months to 36 months with a caregiver
    30 minutes of nursery rhymes, songs, books, movement, puppets, and musical instruments to help develop early literacy skills for young children.
      
    Pajama Story Time
    Thursday, January 10 at 7 p.m.
    For ages 2 to 5 years with a caregiver
    Learn how animals use their senses to survive.
    Presented by the Maryland Zoo.

     

    Story Time
    Wednesdays, January 16 to February 6 at 10:30 a.m.
    For babies through age 5 with a caregiver
    Stories, songs, rhymes, and movement followed by a craft
     
    Wigglebotics: Build a Self-Propelled Drawing Machine
    Friday, January 18 at 10:30 a.m.
    For grades 1st to 5th
    Presented in conjunction with FutureMakers. Create a wiggling, drawing machine! Use electricity, household materials, motors, wires and batteries to create circuits, and apply physics to make the machines draw. No experience required; all materials provided. Free. No registration, but limited to the first 25.
      
    Centreville Branch Adult & Teen Events 
      
    Book Discussion Group
    Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 7 p.m.
    Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
    It is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media -- as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents -- the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter -- but is he really a killer?
      
    Non-Fiction in the Afternoon
    Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 2 p.m.
    Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
    Join us as we discuss the book that inspired the Oscar-buzzed film, Lincoln: Team of Rivals doesn't just tell the story of Abraham Lincoln.  It is a multiple biography of the entire team of personal and political competitors that he put together to lead the country through its greatest crisis.  Here, Doris Kearns Goodwin profiles five of the key players in her book, four of whom contended for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination and all of whom later worked together in Lincoln's cabinet.
      
    Upcoming Computer Classes
    All classes are from 9 to 10 a.m.
    Registration Required 410-758-0980
      
    Tuesday, January 15: Computer Basics
    Thursday, January 17: More Basics
      
    Tuesday, January 22: Microsoft Word
    Thursday, January 24: More Word
      
    Tuesday, January 29: Microsoft Excel
    Thursday, January 31: More Excel
     
    Queen Anne's County Free Library
     
    Centreville Branch - 121 S. Commerce St., Centreville, MD 21617 - 410-758-0980
    Kent Island Branch - 200 Library Circle, Stevensville, MD 21666 - 410-643-8161