Teen Bake-Off at CC Library!

Do you like to bake?  Do people compliment you on your cookies, cakes or other baked goods?  Come to our Teen Bake-Off!  Bring your baked goodies to Chester County Library on Friday, March 22nd, and our judges will decide who has the best stuff.  Top prizes include gift cards to Panera Bread,
Chick Fil-A, and TCBY.

Here are the rules of the Teen Bake-Off:

-- You can bake by yourself, or in a team of 2 or 3 people.

-- You should bring the following quantities:

       24 individual items (for example: cookies, brownies, muffins)  or

       1 large item (for example: cake, pie)

-- Bring an index card - Write what your baked item is and your
    name(s).

-- Bring one sheet of 8.5 x 11 inch paper - Write or type your recipe.

-- Bakers must be 11 to 19 years old (no adults or younger students,
    please).

This FREE event will be held in the Youth Services Department at Chester County Library on Friday, March 22nd, from 4:30 to 5:30 pm.

 

You must register by Monday, March 18th, in person at the Youth Services desk, by emailing tlc@ccls.org, or by calling 610-280-2632.  When registering, please include your name, age, telephone number, and what your baked item is. 
If you have any questions, please call 610-280-2630.  Bon Appetit!

 

Lisa U.

CC Library

Duct Tape Craft Night

Have you heard about duct tape crafts, but didn't know where to start?  Come to Chester County Library's Teen Duct Tape Craft Night on Friday, February 22nd at 6:30 pm! 

We'll show a video on how to make some cool crafts, and then you can try it yourself.  We have lots of tape colors and patterns, so you can create your own masterpieces.

To register for this FREE event, call 610-280-2630 or email tlc@ccls.org by February 21st.  Hope to see you there!

Lisa U.
CC Library

Anti-Valentine's Day books

Is the thought of flowers, cards, and candy this Valentine’s Day making you gag? Yeah, we’ve been there. So we present to you.....the Anti-Valentine’s Day book list. Maybe you’ll like John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines, where child prodigy Colin is dumped by his girlfriend right after high school graduation—the 19th Katherine to go with the other 18 he's dated (or otherwise been involved with) in his life. To console himself, he allows himself to be dragged off on a road trip to Tennessee, convinced along the way that he can work out a math theorem that predicts the duration of relationships.

 

Or maybe you can relate to the unrequited love between John and Marisol, two high school zine writers in Ellen Wittlinger’s Hard Love. Not even their shared family dysfunctions and love of writing can overcome the obvious: John’s straight while Marisol’s gay.  E. Lockhart’s The Boyfriend List is the first in a series about 15-year old Ruby “Roo” Oliver, who starts suffering panic attacks after her boyfriend dumps her, her friends abandon her, and she becomes the pariah of her prep school. A bulleted list—prompted by her shrink—helps us learn the events and reasons behind Ruby’s anxiety and fall from grace.

 

So grab one of these books, break up some heart-shaped cookies to munch on while reading, and enjoy!

Deb B.
CC Library

Teen Movie Night at CC Library!





      


A FREE movie about a cute dog and FREE popcorn.....what's not to like?  Come to Chester County Library's Teen Movie Night on Friday, January 25, at 6:30 pm to see "Marley & Me," starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson.  It's a story about a young couple who adopts a Labrador puppy that fails obedience school but steals their hearts.

Remember, this is a FREE event for students in 6th grade and older.  To register, please email tlc@ccls.org or call 610-280-2632. 

Lisa U.
CC Library

Time travel YA books

Had your fill of vampires, werewolves and faeries? Try time travel! Yes, the next big thing seems to be people going back in time to save the ones they love, not to mention the world. But be warned--they do have a romantic flair. There's Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone; Timeless by Alexandra Monir, about a girl who falls in love with a boy living in New York City’s Gilded Age; and Houglass by Myra McEntire, about a girl who meets a member of the Hourglass Institute, an X-Men-type agency where she learns her curse is really a gift

For more of a guy’s perspective with secret agent flair, try Tempest by Julie Cross. And if romace isn’t your thing at all, there’s Alex Scarrow’s TimeRiders series, where three teens who have escaped death instead portal to different moments in time to stop those from radically changing it. Happy time traveling!

Deb B.
CC Library