Teen Summer Library Program

How to Have a
Summer

By Heather Miller, Homewood Library

With so many things going on this summer, how will you know the best way to make your vacation Read-iculous? Should you milk a cow at Bessemer Library or mingle with the flamingoes at the Hoover Library? There are just too many choices! To simplify your summer planning, here’s a handy guide to the silliest and goofiest ways to make your summer as Read-iculous as possible.

  • Be obvious! Attend a summer library kick-off dressed in clown shoes and a false nose. Try the Kick-off Carnival on May 24 at the Hoover Library or the X at 100.5’s live radio broadcast from the Homewood Library parking lot on June 6. If you want to be really Read-iculous, wear the false nose…upside down.
  • Karaoke! What better way to have a Read-iculous summer than to sing your heart out with Sandi and Frank at Five Points West Library or at the Hoover Library’s summer finale? Hoover’s even offering ice cream to soothe your tired throat after your masterpiece soprano concerto.
  • Show it off! If your Read-iculous-ness is best expressed through performance, try out the juggling and improv workshops at Hoover Library or the magic workshop, with Larry Moore, at the Bessemer Library. Or work with choreographer Henry Hearns at the Five Points West Library and learn to clown around with movement.
  • Watch the Read-iculous! Hoover, Homewood, and the Five Points West Libraries will have movie days throughout the summer. Hang out with your friends and laugh at your favorite actors and actresses in ridiculous situations.
  • Get Creative! Being Read-iculous isn’t just an attitude, you know! Get down and dirty with clay craft at the Bessemer Library or try out the Read-iculous Craft at Five Points West Library. You can even learn to use an everyday material to do extraordinary things at the duct tape craft program at the Homewood Library.
  • Or not! If you’re just not in a Read-iculous frame of mind, try out some more informative programs. Five Points West Library has several on Dressing for Success, Food Safety, and What’s in Your Home. You can also attend their Amazing Animals program with the McWane Center’s experts. Or try your hand at cooking at the Hoover Library. The Culinard Institute will be there to show you how to cook some yummy treats. Bessemer Library will be presenting a program on Stranger Danger, using Tae Kwon Do techniques for personal safety.

    • Read some books!

    Try…

    Being Read-iculous may not appeal to every teen, but you’re sure to find a program and/or book at your local library that will. Check out the program schedule included in this newsletter or ask your librarian for their suggestions on how best to be Read-iculous at the public library this summer!