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Beginning Monday, October 5, 2009 the upstairs Computer Game Room will be open on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 2:30 - 3:45 p.m. for High School students. The Game Room is open when Wayne schools are open. Teens must have a valid Wayne Library card to sign up. Please sign up at the Children's Reference Desk. | | | | | | Kids Helping Kids
Tuesdays & Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.Tutoring services by the Wayne Valley High School National Honors Society will take place in the Children’s Department of the Main Library for middle school and high school students who attend schools that feed into Wayne Valley High School. Students may attend one or both days. Sessions will not be held when there is no school in Wayne. Please email: wvkidshelpingkids@gmail.com if you would like tutoring services, so the tutors can accommodate each child’s individual needs. For Wayne Residents only! | | | | | | | | | | | Sweets for the Sweet Contest
Monday, February 1 through Wednesday, February 10, 2010
When you're in the library, come to the Children's Reference Desk and put in a guess! THe person who guesses closest to the correct number wins the jar of candy hearts!
Open to ages 2 - 18. Wayne Residents only! | | | | | | | Chocolate Hearts and Kisses!
Friday, February 12, 2010 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Registration begins Tuesday, February 2, 2010.
Treat yourself to some chocolate and create a treat for a special valentine.
Open to young adults in grades 6 & up.
Wayne Residents Only!
| | | | | | | Design Your Own Origami Flexagon
Monday, February 15, 2010 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Registration Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Are you curious how a strip of paper can magically transform itself? Then don't miss out on this fun workshop open to young adults in grades 6 & up. You will get to be creative using colored pens/ pencils and some metallic ones to design your own creations.
Wayne Residents Only! | | | | | | | Cover Revival Contest!
You could win a $20 Game Stop Gift Card!
This contest is open to young adults in grades 6 - 8.
The contest begins Monday, March 1st and ends on Saturday, March 13, 2010 by 5:00 p.m. The winner will be notified on Monday, March 15, 2010. See the contest rules.
To learn more about this contest, please pick up an entry form at the Children's Reference Desk or on our www.waynepubliclibrary.org/teens website.
Wayne Residents Only! | | | | | | | Teen Tech Week
Monday, March 7 - Saturday March 13, 2010Teen Tech Week is a national initiative aimed at teens, librarians, educators, parents, and other concerned adults meant to encourage teens to take advantage of libraries' nonprint resources. The 2010 theme — Learn Create Share @ Your Library — fosters teen creativity and positions the library as a physical and virtual place for safe exploration of the many types of technology available at libraries, including DVDs, music, gaming, video production, online homework help, social networking, tech workshops, audiobooks and more. | | | | | | | Game Day
Monday, March 8, 2010 3:15 - 4:15 p.m.
Registration date: Saturday, February 27, 2010.
Celebrate Teen Tech Week with a Game Day! Come to the library and play Monopoly, Chess, Clue, etc... or bring your own game. There will be delicious snacks and some hot chocolate with whipped cream!
Open to young adults in grades 5 & up.
Wayne Residents Only! | | | | | | | Guess How Many Green M&M's Contest
Begins on Wednesday, March 16, 2010 and ends on Tuesday, March 18, 2010.When you’re in the library, put in a guess! The person who guesses the correct number (or closest to) wins the jar of yummy green M&M's. The contest is open to ages 2 – 18. Wayne Residents Only! | | | | | | | Teen Movie - Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. (approx.)
Rated PG-13 (for sequences of intense supernatural violence and action, disturbing images, thematic elements and some language), 109 minutes.
Registration date: Friday, March 26, 2010.A young boy named Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a Vampire. After a series of events, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque du Freak and become a Vampire. He must now find a way from destroying his last trace of humanity. Please provide your own snacks and drinks. Open to grades 6 & up. Wayne Residents Only! | | | | | | | Required Summer Reading for Wayne Schools | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Health Information | |
| Relationships & Sexuality | Advocates for Youth - Dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health.
| | Sex Etc. - A website dealing with teen relationships, health issues, developed by teens for teens.
| | TeenWire Sexuality and relationship information from Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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| Hotlines - if you need help | New Jersey Suicide and Crisis Hotlines - Crisis counselors are available to help and talk out problems.
| | Teen Central.Net - Welcome to Teen Central, the place to get teen help for teen problems. This web site is for teens and by teens.
| | Teen HealthFX - provides national hotline numbers for child abuse, alcohol & drug problems, victims of crime, AIDS and more.
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