Scratch Day @ CLP Main- Teen: Saturday 5/19 from 1 to 4

IMAGINE + PROGRAM + SHARE Are you interested in creating digital videos, games, and animation?  Do you have a vision and passion for digital art, but lack the technical skills?  If you answered yes, then  Scratch is the perfect programming language for you.  Scratch is a visual programming language that was developed by MIT students in [...]

Teen review: Matched by Allyson Condie

My name is Jenna. I go to a high school where I’m part of the marching band and the cheerleading squad. I’m pretty busy, but I always find time to read. I’m also very creative and I like doing little crafts out of random things I find. Matched by Ally Condie Cassia was so excited [...]

Great Irish Stories for St. Patrick’s Day

  March to me means two things- NCAA March Madness and Saint Patrick’s Day.  I’ve always loved Saint Patrick’s Day and my family always had a huge party to celebrate.  Of course my grandparents last names were Murphy, Mulligan, McGillicuddy, and Carney.  So, yeah we’re pretty Irish!  We still have a while to go until the actual Saint Patrick’s Day, [...]

New Teen Book Club at CLP Main

I love to read and discuss books- that’s why I became a librarian!  Strangely though, I’ve always been reluctant to join a book club.  I find that the hardest part about committing to one is being required to read a specific book- the same one as everyone else!  Maybe I have a problem with authority, [...]

Just Try to Remain Silent: Sign Up for The Silent Library Program

Do you think you could remain silent while someone plucked a hair from inside your nose?  Could you prevent yourself from laughing at the sight of a good friend being fed baby food while dressed in a diaper and bib?  Would you be able to refrain from squealing in horror after seeing yourself made up [...]

Go Back to School in Style

I went to the store yesterday, and where there had been a display of lawn chairs and coolers for summer there were now stacks of notebooks, book bags, pens and pencils for the beginning of school.  Whether you’re ready or not the lazy days of summer are coming to an end. There is a bright [...]

LGBT Friendly Colleges!

When searching for the right college you are faced with literally hundreds of decisions. It is a multi-step process involving countless forms and countless dollars! And on top of all that it can be even more complicated for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students. Fortunately, there are new and helpful resources available to LGBT [...]

!!Free Stuff Friday!!

You know what to do! Be the first TEEN to comment on any other post (i.e. not this one) and you win a gift card! (Gift cards are for Target, Barnes & Noble, Eat n’ Park.) UPDATE: Caleb is this week’s big winner! Congratulations, Caleb!

To all the Sassy girls and guys: now is your chance to write

If you are a teenager today, you weren’t around when Sassy magazine was being published.  But you’ve probably felt its influence or heard about it.  In its day, Sassy was the magazine that was an alternative to the same-old, same-old teen magazines like Seventeen or  YM (the latter is also now defunct).  It told you [...]

This is your brain!

If you are a teenager, your brain is still growing. I feel pretty confident in saying that we have probably all done things without knowing why we were doing them, or really thinking about the outcome.  These moments probably occur more often during the teen years.  As a scientist in a recent article on NPR [...]