The Summer Reading Club is almost over. But, don't stop now. Join us at Hugh Embry for an exclusive mystery play for teens only! If you want to guess "who dunnit," come at 6:00pm to watch the show. If you want to be one of the actors, come early. We will need (7) teens to play the parts. We will start practicing for the show around 3:30 p.m. The first (7) teens to be here will get to pick their parts, so come early to start the fun.



Who: All teens, grades 6 - 12
What: Mystery Theater in the Dark
When: Wednesday, July 22nd
Where: Hugh Embry Library
Time: 3 p.m. for actors -- 6 p.m. for the show

Join us after hours from 6pm to 9pm at the Hudson Library for
a variety of role-playing, computer, video and board games! Hudson Library is the ONLY place to be on Friday game nights!

YES! It's been a long summer, but, the time has finally come for the Return of TAB!

This is your one and only chance to put in YOUR nominations for President, Vice President, Secretary, AND an "Up For Grabs" category you can decide on. (We hear food bribes work very well in getting nominated!) Voting will be at the August 25th meeting.

You also can earn DOUBLE volunteer hours, that's a minimum of two hours per meeting, if you are elected to an officer position. Everyone who comes to the first meeting in August will also get double hours just for showing up!

Of course, we'll have snacks and drinks, too.

Don't miss it!


Tuesday, August 11th at 6:00pm.
TAB meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays every month.

This week we’re changing gears at Hugh Embry! Instead of having the second half of the Graphic Novel workshop, we’re doing an open mic and café night. Want snacks? How about café food? And … we’ll have fun too! Bring your music (if you have a guitar, bring that too). Bring your stories (scary or otherwise). Bring your poems (even a poetry slam). Bring your songs and your jokes (if you have any). We’ll have a karaoke machine ready at the quick! Anything you can do on a mic, you’ll have that chance on Wednesday!

Oh! And if you don’t want to stand in front of the mic, we’ll have tablecloths of craft paper so you can draw, paint or whatever you want to do. Note: Last week our teens made books during our Summer Reading Club program. Some were graphic novels, while others were just words on paper. Still, others were just pictures. The teens did SO GOOD they finished their books early. Their books even had a cover. Too Cool!!! If you didn’t get your chance to make this book, come on Wednesday @ 6 p.m. We’ll set you up, while listening to the other teens on the mic.

Where did the summer go? This is our last SRC event for teens at Land O' Lakes until the final party/ lock-in in August. Dance the night away with a live DJ, lights, decorations, fog, and all songs by request from our library of two million tracks. Enjoy food, drinks, punch spiked with Monster, and so much more. So you think you really CAN dance? Enter our dance contest for a chance to win cash prizes of $100 for 1st place, $40 for 2nd place and $25 for third place.

Friday, July 24th from 7:00-10:00pm.

1,2,3 o'clock, 4 o'clock rock...5,6,7 o'clock 8 o'clock rock...9,10,11 o'clock, 12 o'clock rock, we're gonna ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK TONIGHT! (Come on, you know you were singing along.) Get rockin' and join us for the Land O' Lakes SRC Final Party and Lock-In!

This is the final prize for all teens who read and log 6 or more books in the Summer Reading Club. The Lock-In is 14 hours of video games, food, music, dancing, crazy party games, and just about whatever else you want to do. NO sleeping required!

Registration is limited to the first 35 to turn in a signed parental permission form. If you don't get one of the 35 spots, but you still completed your Summer Reading Club goal, then you can attend the party portion of the evening from 6:00-9:00pm. This is also where we have our grand prize drawing from among everyone that finished the club. Last year it was an 80GB iPod and the first 14 Naruto manga. This year will be something even better!

So mark your calendars: the Final Party is from 6:00-9:00pm on Friday, August 14th. The Lock-In continues until 8:00am Saturday morning, August 15th.

Registration for the Lock-In begins on Tuesday, July 28th at 10:00am.

Have you got what it takes to be a Hacky Sack champion? Join us at Hudson for your chance to beat some of Pasco County's best "Footbaggers!"

Are you an aspiring artist that could use $1,000 cash? The Woot! t-shirt website http://shirt.woot.com has a weekly (yes, every week) contest to design an original t-shirt based on a theme and a set of rules. Any mode of 2-D art is accepted accept for photographs, including hand-drawn & scanned, computer designed, and digital sketching.

A new theme is posted by Woot! every Friday at noon. You just have to create an account and post your design any time after 12pm. You can post as many as you like. The world then gets to vote on all the submitted designs all week until Thursday at noon. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the winning shirts are sold online, one per day, and the winning designers each get $1,000. So, if you don't win the first time, try again. You can use pretty much any method to get people to the site to vote for your shirt designs.

Check out the link above for the main site. For the full list of all their rules and an FAQ on everything else about the site, check out http://shirt.woot.com/WhatIsWoot.aspx

Yes, our web designer has gone crazy! Rather than locking him up, we have decided to make a contest out of his insanity!

Five links on our Teen Page have been cornified. That means that instead of the link working properly, unicorns and rainbows will randomly appear on the page. They look much like these:


So, your goal is to search through every link on the Library's Teen Page and find the 5 cornified links. Then, post a comment on this blog entry with your name, e-mail or MySpace address, and the 5 links where you found the cornification. We will have a random drawing from among all the correct answers on August 14th. The winner will receive a $50 Best Buy Gift Card, courtesy of the Friends of the Library. Don't share the answers with others, or you reduce your chances of winning. Good luck and happy unicorn searching!

Ice Cream - yummy. Join us for another great SRC event at LOL to watch a flick and build your own ice cream sundaes from among our many flavors of ice cream and a massive collection of toppings. What could be better? Movie title TBA.

Tuesday, July 14th at 6:00pm.

Sure, Battleship is a fun game when played on a tabletop. Wouldn't it be better, though, to play on a life-sized board, with human pieces and giant rubber balls as missiles? We think so too! Join us for the second in our series of live-action boardgames.

Friday, July 10th from 6:00-9:00pm.

Free snacks and drinks.

Land O' Lakes Branch Library
2818 Collier Parkway, Land O'Lakes, FL 34639
Phone: (813) 929-1214
pascolibraries.org

Want to show off your artistic talent? Come to New River Library Thursday, June 25th, at 6pm and help us decorate a real guitar. This guitar will be raffled off later this summer to raise money for next year's "Battle of the Bands". We will also be creating coffee art, decorating guitar picks, and creating a mystery sculpture. Also, refreshments will be served.

New River Library
34043 State Road 54
Zephyrills, FL 33543
Phone: 813-788-6375
pascolibraries.org

Our Summer Reading Club is heating up with our next event for Teens. Join us for Giant Mad Libs & Anime Voiceovers. Come up with your most creative words and laugh as they are placed into our giant-format Mad Libs. Afterwards, you will have the chance to use our voiceover machine to put your own dubs onto anime movies, with potentially hilarious results.

Tuesday, June 30th from 6:00-8:00pm.
Free snacks and drinks provided.

Land O' Lakes Branch Library
2818 Collier Parkway, Land O'Lakes, FL 34639
Phone: (813) 929-1214
pascolibraries.org

Want to win two tickets to this year's WWE SummerSlam event on August 23rd in L.A.? All you have to do is be one of the first 25 teens/tweens (ages 10-18) to check out two or more books at any of the Pasco County libraries between June 24th and July 16th and you could win. Posters featuring Rey Mysterio, Evan Bourne, Beth Phoenix, and Eve will be given out to everyone who checks out 2+ books until each library runs out. Only one poster per person, regardless of the number of times you check out books.

So, how does this poster help you win? Well, there is a number on the bottom right corner of every poster. On Friday, July 17, two poster numbers will be drawn determining the grand prize winners along with alternate poster numbers, all of which will be posted on WWEKids.com. The two grand prize winners will win airfare to Los Angeles for two, two nights’ hotel, two tickets and $200 spending money for WWE’s SummerSlam pay-per-view event on Sunday, August 23, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Ten first prize winners will win copies of the WWE Encyclopedia. See the official rules online (PDF) for complete info.

Seem easy enough? Just come in between June 24 and July 16 (or while supplies last) and check out 2 or more books to enter. You won't see much better odds of winning a prize like this.

TEENS! Help us finish painting the guitar we started last week. We'll be painting a zebra design on the back. One of our teens came up with this zebra design, and there is a hidden zebra in the painting. Oh, don't forget about the altered book. We've already cut out a box, from pages of the book. You can paint and finish the box, and there will be trinkets and found art available so you can design multiple pages.

Who: All Teens, grades 6 - 12.
Who Else Will Be Here: Paul Stonebridge
What: Altered Expressions
Where: Hugh Embry library
When: June 24th.
Time: 6 - 8 p.m.

Get the chance to experience several art workshops on different subjects, from calligraphy to coffee painting, with plenty of stuff to take home. The highlight of the evening will be the decoration of an acoustic guitar donated to the library by GuitarArt.org. We get the chance to add our own designs to the guitar, which will be displayed in the library all summer, then raffled off to raise money for next year’s Battle of the Bands.

Friday, June 26th from 6:00-9:00pm.
Free snacks and drinks available, of course.

Land O' Lakes Branch Library
2818 Collier Parkway, Land O'Lakes, FL 34639
Phone: (813) 929-1214
pascolibraries.org

Want to add some fun and wackiness to your life? Look no further! New River Library will be hosting a Teen Improv Night Thursday, June 18th, at 6PM. What is improv? Improv is a form of acting where the actors create the scene themselves, rather than following a script. You can act in the scenes or you can be a member of the audience. Feel free to bring unusual objects for the actors to use as props. For example, you could bring wigs, hats, stuffed animals, masks, etc.

New River Library
34043 S. R. 54
Zephyrhills, FL 33543
(813)-788-6375

Yes, we'll be showing the movie ... AGAIN. But, only as background filler while you make your way around the library for a Scavenger Hunt! No, not all the questions will be about the movie. But, whoever answers them correctly will have a chance to win a prize!

Other activities:
1. 4 p.m. Decorating Event
2. Twilight Quiz Game Show.
3. Twilight Poster Drawing Contest. 4. Refreshments will be served.

Prizes: New Moon and Twilight books! Other prizes include Twilight posters.

Who's invited: All teens.
Where: The Hugh Embry Library
When: Wednesday, June 17th
Time: 6 - 8 p.m.

Hugh Embry Branch Library
14215 Fourth Street, Dade City, FL 33523
Phone: (352) 567-3576
pascolibraries.org

Congrats to the Winners of the LOL Don't Forget the Lyrics Contest:
1st Place: Team Awesome won a $50 BestBuy gift card.
2nd Place: Team Twilight won Pocky and Monster.
3rd Place: Team Rainbow Bite won Pocky.
Honorable Mention to Team Webeda and Team Ninja.
You guys are awesome!

Much like the TV show of the same name, we will be hosting a competition in song lyrics and karaoke in honor of our "Express Yourself" theme for the Summer Reading Club. Test your skills in songs from all genres of music as you try to remember the last line in the lyrics. Contestants will be scored on their prowess, with the winner taking home a $50 Best Buy gift card. Even if you don't want to compete, you can still come and watch the fun and devour the free food.

Tuesday, June 16th from 6:00-8:00pm.

Land O' Lakes Branch Library
2818 Collier Parkway, Land O'Lakes, FL 34639
Phone: (813) 929-1214
pascolibraries.org

If you have fingers of fire and want to test your skills, join us for a Guitar Hero Tournament on Friday, June 12th from 6:00-9:00pm. Teams of four can register to compete in a double-elimination tournament for fabulous GameStop gift cards. If you just want to hang out or play other games, we'll still have our usual selection of cool gaming including Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, Wii Fit, Rock Band, Halo 2 & 3, Guitar Hero 1-3, Taiko Drums, DDR, and much more.

This is our first awesome event for teens as part of our Summer Reading Club. Stay tuned for other upcoming events!

Free snacks and drinks.
Parental permission slips are required for mature rated games.

Land O' Lakes Branch Library
2818 Collier Parkway, Land O'Lakes, FL 34639
Phone: (813) 929-1214
pascolibraries.org

Are you REALLY into anime and manga? How about cosplay? Well here's your chance to get your fill! Join us for our first Library Anime & Manga Enthusiasts (LAME) free two-day convention at the Hudson Library!

The convention will be held on June 12th from 6:00-10:00pm and June 13th from 10:00am-5:00pm at the Hudson Library.

We'll have vendors selling all the latest, hottest anime and manga merchandise straight from Japan. We'll also have a trading card tournament, panels, artists on display and so much more!

On June 12th we'll have a Costume Contest. Wear your best anime/manga outfit and strike a pose for the judges. On June 13th we'll have a Cosplay Contest. Here's your chance to strut your stuff and act out as your favorite character. You won't want to miss this one!

No registration is required and it's FREE, so just come on by!

Hudson Library
8012 Library Road
Hudson, FL 34667
Phone: (727) 861-3040
pascolibraries.org