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  • Vampires seen in droves despite FL sunshine! - Posted Friday, June 11, 2010

    The Florida sunshine of summer is here to stay! So it seems are vampires in teen lit. The literary trend that has slowly smoldered to life since Interview with a Vampire was penned by Anne Rice was sparked to full-fledged conflagration with the release of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series in the late aught-aught's and shows no sign of backing down.

    The latest in the Edward vs Jacob phenomenon is a novella, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, which you can read for free at www.breetanner.com until midnight July 5th. These 178 pages are filled with the other side of the story presented in Eclipse. The story of Bree and her induction to the immortal life and inclusion in the newborn vampire army sent to attack Bella and Edward. Teens are sucking it up like giant blood sponges and dying for more!

  • Tween Programming for Boys! - Posted Tuesday, April 6, 2010

    Boys like to make things!

         I was initially surprised that boys were interested in attending our beading workshops. I think they just liked to work with their hands on something constructive! What about a Lego club? You could try to create something with them that requires less pink and more hammers. Like birdhouses, robots, hammer their name into a board with some nails, create junk art with old toasters or computer parts. Maybe just let them take apart a toaster or computer and put it back together. You might want to stop at a thrift shop for this one instead of letting them use yours! Check out some more ideas at http://www.pbs.org/designsquad/ 

    Boys like to blow things up! (Open for more ideas!)