July is STILL Anti-Boredom Month!

Here are some ideas...

• All Cambridge youth centers are FREE!  All summer!

• Watch a free screening of Life of Pi outside at the Harvard Medical School Quadrangle on Thursday, July 11.

• Become a soap bubble magician.

• Write a letter (and mail it also).  You will make someone very happy!

Image: Dhiren Gala, 2012.

• Check out the Boomtown Festival at the Multicultural Arts Center July 29 thru August 1. 

•  While you are there, visit the rooftop garden at Kendall Square.

• Cut your hair.  Yes, you will initially feel trepidation, but once you get going it is quite exhilarating!

• Make popsicles.  If you don't have popsicle molds, use ice cube trays, muffin tins, or paper cups!

• Learn to say "hello" in another language.  You may also wish to learn how to say "help!"
  

• Go to the sandcastle competition at Revere Beach on July19-21.

• Wait for someone to water their yard, and then dive through their sprinkler.

• Learn some dance steps at The Mission (call 617-349-6273 to register), then salsa at Boston City Hall on Friday, July 12.

• Join an online writing community.

• Learn something new about birds, plants and animals at a free Fresh Pond event.

• Give your old Barbie a makeover.

 

• Watch cliff divers fall 90 feet into Boston Harbor at the ICA on August 25.

• Name all the feels. 

• Museums all over Massachusetts are participating in Free Fun Fridays -- find one near you!

• Just play: at the Sunday Parkland Games near the Weeks Footbridge on Memorial Drive.

• Finally, make your own souvenir t-shirt to commemorate it all!

Got more ideas of how to beat boredom to a pulp?  Share them with us in the comments!

July is STILL Anti-Boredom Month!

Here are some ideas...

• All Cambridge youth centers are FREE!  All summer!

• Watch a free screening of Life of Pi outside at the Harvard Medical School Quadrangle on Thursday, July 11.

• Become a soap bubble magician.

• Write a letter (and mail it also).  You will make someone very happy!

Image: Dhiren Gala, 2012.

• Check out the Boomtown Festival at the Multicultural Arts Center July 29 thru August 1. 

•  While you are there, visit the rooftop garden at Kendall Square.

• Cut your hair.  Yes, you will initially feel trepidation, but once you get going it is quite exhilarating!

• Make popsicles.  If you don't have popsicle molds, use ice cube trays, muffin tins, or paper cups!

• Learn to say "hello" in another language.  You may also wish to learn how to say "help!"
  

• Go to the sandcastle competition at Revere Beach on July19-21.

• Wait for someone to water their yard, and then dive through their sprinkler.

• Learn some dance steps at The Mission (call 617-349-6273 to register), then salsa at Boston City Hall on Friday, July 12.

• Join an online writing community.

• Learn something new about birds, plants and animals at a free Fresh Pond event.

• Give your old Barbie a makeover.

 

• Watch cliff divers fall 90 feet into Boston Harbor at the ICA on August 25.

• Name all the feels. 

• Museums all over Massachusetts are participating in Free Fun Fridays -- find one near you!

• Just play: at the Sunday Parkland Games near the Weeks Footbridge on Memorial Drive.

• Finally, make your own souvenir t-shirt to commemorate it all!

Got more ideas of how to beat boredom to a pulp?  Share them with us in the comments!

Ye Goode Linkes

• Best Dad Ever.
• Where do new words come from?  YOU.
• Need another reason to read?  It will make you more empathetic.
• LEGO Hogwarts!
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone is being made into a movie.
• See the groundbreaking cover for David Levithan's next book.
• Huffington Post's next book club pick?  The Fault in Our Stars.  Nerdfighters unite!
• And just for fun...check out these dope bento boxes.

More stuff to keep you busy

• The New England Poetry Club's annual contest is back! No dirty limericks, please.

• The Moore Youth Center has all sorts of boss activities during February Vacation Week. It's FREE, there's a SHUTTLE and FOOD. We've got the deets here in the Teen Room, or you can call 617-349-6273.

• Forget high school reunions. These guys have been playing tag for 23 years.

• Dr. Who fans rejoice! Preview new stories by Michael Scott and Eoin Colfer.

Credit: www.shillpages.com/dw/bakert.shtml

RELAX

The school year is in full swing. All over the Teen Room you'll see kids buckling down, sharpening their pencils, and getting to work. Homework, college applications, extracurriculars, extra credit. We're so proud of you guys!

But don't forget to relax.

Everyone relaxes in their own way. Some people like to read a good, quick book. Maybe a short poem while you eat your breakfast? Some people swear by yoga. Others by knitting. Some people might like to lay back with their fattest pair of headphones and listen to some good old fashioned classical music.

Whatever you're into, the Teen Room can help you out. Books, DVDs, CDs... we can track them down for you. I also offer a few of my favorite zone-out-and-stare videos from youtube. Watching these videos is worth hours of yoga, I'm telling you.

How do YOU relax?

Summer in Cambridge

Are you looking for something to do in our fair city?  (Besides visiting your charming librarians, natch.)  Here are a few guides to get you started!

Cambridge Recreation Guide
Hours and activities for the War Memorial Pool and facilities

Summer Youth Guide 2012
The Department of Human Services guide to camps, youth centers, parks, and more!

City of Cambridge Events Calendar
Whether you want to see what's going down with the Board of Zoning Appeals or take a FREE urban bicycling workshop, there's something for everyone.

Cambridge Office for Tourism Community Events calendar
There is so much going on in your city, guys!  For instance, did you know that there's a free cocktail & snacks event every Thursday in June at the Hyatt Regency?  I DID NOT KNOW, and I pride myself on knowing where the snacks are.

Cambridge Discovery Days
We've even got ye olde historical Cambridge covered.  Includes a link to the library's own amazing Archives and Special Collections.  Just think, someday there may be noteworthy and archival about you! 


I mean, check out this dude.  Oh Cambridge, you make me so proud!

Happy Summertime Y'all!

We'll be here all summer long with books, movies, exciting events and air conditioning!

Don't be a stranger...keep your eye on the blog, or follow us on Facebook for updates.

Holy Teen Read Week, Batman!

You guyyyyzz, I was kinda crazybusyalsoreallytired last week and I maybe kinda sorta forgot that it is TEEN READ WEEK this week.

But it's not too late!  Go forth and read, y'all!

 

Specifically, you may wish to read one of these books, lovingly selected by teens JUST LIKE YOU.

You know what I say? Every week is Teen Read Week here in the Teen Room!

Tomorrow: unending fun

Starting at 2:00 with duct tape wallets and continuing at 3:00 with Wii gaming.  So much frivolity your head will explode!

image credit: Larcova

Movie tomorrow afternoon

Wow.  I am still so impressed by that yo-yo guy.  Wait, what?

Oh, you're here!  and you want to know about the movie tomorrow?

It will be funny.  There will be romance and adventure, and a 70% chance of dancing.  If there is no dancing, then I will dance, how about that?


Obligatory popcorn will be served.

Today: Hootenanny

"...[A] gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage; and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny." Oz, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 3

DJ Kitty gets loud in the library.

But it will be none of those things unless you come!  So join us for food, games, beverages of the carbonated-but-not-malty variety, hoot and nanny.

where i come from there IS no SAT...

No, but for real.

I never had to take the SAT. We all took the ACT. Because colleges where I'm from don't care about the SAT, I guess? Unless that's just what my guidance counselor told me because he thought I couldn't handle higher education. In which case: IN YOUR FACE DR. GULSHINKI! I am a LIBRARY SCIENTIST now!)

Anyway. This is Massachusetts. College-bound juniors have to sit for this test, and they have to sit soon. Juniors? Are you reading this? Instead of doing math portion practice tests? Are you signed up for May 7? Or June 4? Am I stressing you out?

DON'T BE STRESSED! Come by the library next Tuesday (April 26) after school for a fun-but-still-helpful SAT VOCABULARY SMACKDOWN! There will be competition, there will be candy, there will be one left standing - and that one will have the most magnificent vocabulary in all the land and will get a real-life PRIZE. Most of all it will be a welcomed break from crammy cram cramming.

You in? You're in.

Fun & Games

This Saturday, 2:00! Board games, mind games, and feats of strength!

Sticky Note Suggestions

(1) Obtain Post-It from Librarian





2) Place Post-It inside Book Cover


(3) Write Book Suggestions on Post-It


(4) Put the Book Back on the Shelf



(5) Dash off, laughing Gleefully.

West Cambridge Youth Center needs YOU

They are interviewing for Peer Support Workers -- sounds like an awesome job opportunity and a chance to create exciting events for you and your friends! Check it out...



Get in touch with Marisa Lopez if you are interested: mlopez@cambridgema.gov

Duct Tape Wallets next Wednesday!

On Wednesday, May 26 at 3 pm we'll be making Duct Tape Wallets in the Teen Lounge. We have all kinds of colors and can't wait to see what you come up with! We supply all of the tape and the know-how.