Summer Reading Program is here!!!!!!!!

That's right, folks, our favorite time of the year has arrived! This year's SRP is packed full of cool events for teens. There is something almost every Monday night throughout June and July:

• June 20 - Teen Sizzlin' Shakespeare - If any of you came to this last year, you know how totally awesome it was! Well, they're back this year, to teach Shakespearean staging and fighting. So cool - come prepared to move around!
• June 27 - Teen Painting - We'll provide the materials, as well as an instructor to give you some tips, you just provide yourself and your artistic abilities! Even if you don't think you have artistic abilities - come anyway!
• July 11 - Teen Photography - Lexington photographer Amber Schmidt will be here to give a workshop that will have you taking pictures like a professional!
• July 25 - Teen Scrapbooking - One of our own librarians, Wendy O'Connor, will be helping you create a beautiful book to record your memories in!

All Monday night programs begin at 6 p.m. Also on the first and third Thursdays of each month, from 6-7:30, we have our regular Teen Gaming program. Remember, you must have a signed permission slip to participate! Pick one up at the children's desk, or by the bulletin board in the teen section!

We also have something new this year. In cooperation with Lexington Public Library, we will be having three Fright & Write writing workshops. These are all on Thursdays in June: June 16, 23 and 30 at 1 p.m. A writing instructor will be here to help you create scary stories. IMPORTANT: You must sign up in advance for these workshops. The sign up sheet is at the children's desk.

Finally, remember to sign up for SRP at the front desk and get your bag with the reading cards in it. These are what you can turn in for free books, and enter them in drawings to win even bigger prizes! You must fill out an entire packet (5 cards) before you bring it in during our store hours (on your calendar). We have some awesome prizes this year - the more you read, the more chances you have to win things like an Xbox 360 Kinect, a digital camera, a $50 Walmart gift card, or a UK gift basket, just to name a few! Any questions, ask a youth librarian!

Woohoo!!!!!! SRP rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sarah