It might be a bit strange to write a book focusing on a question without an answer but that is precisely what author Lee Billings has done with his new book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars. Billings, who spent several years researching the […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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This week’s book is Dan Simmons’ The Abominable. The novel, inspired by a story told to the author during his research for 2007’s The Terror, takes place in 1924 as intrepid explorers have begun the race to scale Mt. Everest has been stymied by the mysterious disappearance of two climbers. […]
Would you like to help your child develop good reading comprehension skills and increase vocabulary? Read a wordless picture book together! Your child will develop important reading skills, such as: • critical thinking • predicting what happens next • storytelling/narrative skills • detecting story sequence Extend the story by asking […]
The Library would like to thank all of the young adults that participated in this summer’s “Beneath the Surface” teen reading program. All of the grand prize raffle winners have been selected and notified. We look forward to reading with you all again next summer. Happy back to school everyone!
The 2013 Young Adult Summer Poster Raffles are now over. Thank you to all participants, and congratulations to all of our winners! Keep an eye out for more poster raffles throughout the school year!
The Franklin Township Public Library’s Young Adult Yarn Club (a.k.a YAY Club) will continue to meet in the fall! This past summer the Library started it’s first Yarn club for young adults ages, 10 – 18 at the Franklin Park Branch. Teens hung out at the Branch Library and learned […]
The FTPL 2013 Summer Reading Buddies certificates AND volunteer letters are now available for all Teen Buddies at the Adult Reference Desk. Please be sure to pick-up both!
The Summer 2013 Reading Buddies Program has ended! The Library would like to thank all of the Teen Buddies and Little Buddies for their hard work. It was wonderful reading with everyone this summer! Notifications will be emailed out soon to notify all participants when the “Certificates of Completion” […]
The Library will be raffling off posters during the 2013 Summer Reading Program! Five posters will be put on display in the Young Adult areas and raffled off at each Library location: June 15th – August 31st! Young Adults ages 11 – 18 are eligible to enter! **Visit the blog’s […]
Summer has arrived and the Library has lots of fun programs for young adults! A new addition to the Teen Blog is the” Summer Calendar” tabs at the top. They consist of descriptions of all of the teen events being offered throughout July and August at both Library locations for […]