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Teresa K. Cain

05/17/2017 - 8:46am
Patawomek village coming to HQ

Fifty members of the Patawomeck tribe will recreate one of their villages at the library. On the front lawn, you’ll smell venison and fish roasting on an open fire, hear live Patawomeck music, explore a longhouse, sit in a 13-foot canoe, and see Patawomeck dancing. You and your family can pound cornmeal, play Indian football, play drums, and meet a Pocahontas reenactor. Inside the theatre, you’ll see artifacts that are 10,000 years old, learn how regalia is made, hear Patawomeck storytelling, watch a movie, and make crafts.

Save the date: Saturday, August 5, from 9:00-3:00 at Headquarters Library. This event will be cancelled if there is rain.

05/23/2017 - 10:00am
Join Us for Lunch!

In summer, CRRL's young readers have learned to expect an extra helping of everything we typically offer. Cool events for teens, summer reading with prizes, Fun Fest events, and special classes with wildlife, just to name a few. But did you know that we also offer nutritious lunches for young readers?

03/23/2017 - 5:23pm
Come Explore HQ's Teen Space

Teens, now you can find your own space at Headquarters Library in Fredericksburg. Come to the second floor, and see what’s in store.

The official Opening Night Pizza Party is set for Tuesday, March 28, from 7:30 to 8:30. The library’s Teen Council and HQ Youth Services staff will be there to welcome you. Besides delicious pizza, there will be:

15 brand spanking new Chromebooks available for checkout. During the party or at any other time the library is open, they can be used anywhere on the second floor and can be used with earphones for a bit of privacy. 

We'll also have XBox One with the following games: 

  • W2k17
  • Halo 5: Guardians
  • LEGO Jurassic World
  • UFC 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Terraria
  • Dragon Ball Xenoverse
  • NBA 2K16
  • Need for Speed: Rivals
  • Rocket League Arena
01/01/2017 - 8:26am
Fabulous Friday: ZAP! BOOM! POW! LEGO Batman!

Always be yourself.
Unless you can be Batman.
Or his adopted kid.

Join us for the ultimate techno geek and über nerd celebration of the DC Comics superhero with the best technology—the one and only LEGO Batman! Build LEGO creations, solve mysteries, play games, and create Batman-inspired crafts to help save Gotham City. Naturally, costumes are welcome. This is a STEM program for grades K-6.

06/20/2016 - 12:18pm
Grow a Reader: Playing for Keeps

My favorite Grow a Reader practice in the whole world is (drumroll please!) . . . PLAYING!  Goofing off. Clowning around. Kicking up your heels.

But shouldn’t a pre-literacy practice require, oh I dunno—something like . . . practice?

Of course, playing comes very easily to most children. But don’t be fooled into thinking that because it comes naturally, playing doesn’t have value. Playing gives kids practice at thinking symbolically and using their imaginations. And, since words are basically just symbols for objects, actions, and ideas, learning to think symbolically is a priceless pre-literacy skill.*

02/22/2016 - 7:08am
These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly

“Shallow graves always give up their dead.” -- These Shallow Graves

In the 1890s, there was only one acceptable job for a heiress and socialite like Josephine Montford—leveraging her beauty and breeding to marry well and young. None of the teens at Miss Sparkwell’s School for Young Ladies have any goals beyond that—except Jo. She longs to be a gutsy investigative journalist like Nellie Bly. (True fact: In a day when daring careers were only for men, Nellie Bly faked mental illness to be admitted to the Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and the exposé she wrote about it changed mental health care forever.) It’s hard to imagine a dream that could be further outside the seemingly impermeable box of restrictions that Jo’s family and society have constructed for her.    

01/12/2016 - 11:38am
We Are All Made of Molecules book cover

“My dad works at an advertising agency and my mom anchors the local evening news. They are both very good-looking for old people, and I’m not being arrogant but just stating a fact when I say I inherited the best from both of them.” – Ashley, We Are All Made of Molecules

Ashley is the best-looking and most popular person in high school. Stewart, not so much. Stewart is a certifiable genius. Ashley? Well, let’s just say she’s a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

10/19/2015 - 9:29am
Ask the Dark by Henry Turner

“Scuze my language.” — Billy, Ask the Dark

Billy Zeet has quite a reputation. And he got it the hard way—he earned it. Despite having a heart of gold, Billy’s rap sheet includes more petty crimes than even he can remember. He can silently break into a locked second-story window with one hand tied behind his back. And nobody can slip unseen through the dark like Billy. He’s practically a shadow. Nobody can skip school quite like Billy, either. Being the invisible man at school has put him in the seventh grade for the second time. But he has an expansive vocabulary—of cuss words.

12/14/2016 - 3:15pm
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

“...you are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”All the Bright Places

Anything but predictable, Theodore “Freak” Finch has a phenomenal talent for making his weirdness sexy. He’s a tall, dark guitarist and songwriter for a couple of local bar bands who drives his car at nail-biting speeds, can quote lengthy passages from Dr. Seuss, and is on probation at school.

Finch refuses to have a Facebook account—until he wants to contact Violet Markey. Violet is china-doll perfect, cheerleader-popular, student-council smart, I-have-my-own-website confident, and last chair flute in orchestra. Well, until a tragic accident. Now she’s just last chair flute in orchestra, sporting bangs she cut all by herself.

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