Friday, January 10, 2014

New Graphic Novels and Anime


  1. "March" by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
  2. "The Great American Dust Bowl" by Don Brown
  3. "The Best American Comics" 
  4. "Vinland Saga" by Makoto Yukimura

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Internet Access and Computer Classes



Need to use the Internet?

The Memorial Park Branch Library offers free Internet access. We provide access to eighteen public internet computers as well as offer access to free WI-FI.  So come on in and sign-up today or bring in your laptop, tablet or other WI-FI enabled device and enjoy free internet access.  Please note that our automated system stops assigning computers 30 minutes prior to closing and the system shuts down 15 minutes prior to closing each day.


Don't know how to use a computer but are interested in learning how.  Then stop by our branch on Wednesday's or Thursday's and join one of our basic computer classes.  The classes are offered from 5:30 PM to 6:45 PM Wednesday evenings and from 10:00 AM. to 11:00 AM on Thursday mornings.  These classes are free and there is no advanced registration required.  For more information please call 566-1034.  

M.P.T.A.G.


Memorial Park Library needs your help in putting together our first Teen Advisory Group.  We are looking for teen's and tween's who are willing to recommend books, CD's, DVDs, and other materials that we should adding to the library’s Young Adult collection.  Those teen's and tween's would also advise us on the type of programming they would like to see presented at the library.  So fill out an application, become part of M.P.T.A.G. and let your voices be heard and your opinions count.  Meetings will be held once a month on the last Saturday of each month from 4 PM to 5 PM in the library meeting room.  M.P.T.A.G. is open to Teen's, ages 13 to 19 and Tween's, ages 11 and 12.   


New Young Adult Books

Young Adult Non-Fiction
  1. "Why People Get Tattoos" By Jeanne Nagle.
  2. "Dealing with Bullies, Cliques..." By Jennifer Landau.
  3. "Drinking and Driving, Now What?" By Valerie Mendralla.
  4. "Everything I need to know I learned from a  little Golden Book" By Diane Muldrow.
  5. "Genetics the Science of life, Cloning" By Susan Schafer.
Young Adult Fiction
  1. "The Hunger Games Mockingjay" By Suzanne Collins.
  2. "Flicker & Burn" By T.M. Goeglein.
  3. "Raven Flight" By Juliet Marillier.
  4. "Confessions of the Private School Murders" By James Patterson.
  5. "The Waking Dark" By Robin Wasserman.
Graphic Novels and Anime
     
     1. "March Book 1." By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
     2. "The Great American Dust Bowl." By Don Brown

Spanish Youn Adult Fiction

     1.  "Las Poseidas." por Betina Gonzalez
     2.  "El Hijo de Neptuno." por Rick Riodan 

Recommended Young Adult books at this library

"Prom Book the Only Guide You'll Ever Need" by Lauren Metz.
"Dead Strange" by  Matt Lamy.
"Fox Forever" by Mary E. Pearson.
"The Cydonian Pyramid" by Pete Hautman.
"Star Trek Into Darkness" A novelization by Alan Dean Foster.
"Surfacing" by Nora Raleigh Baskin.

2013 YALSA Teens' Top Ten

1. "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
2. "The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen 
3. "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
4. "Pushing the Limits" by Katie McGarry 
5. "Poison Princess" by Kresley Cole 
6. "The Raven Boys" by Maggie Stiefvater 
7. "Crewel" by Gennifer Albin 
8. "Every Day" by David Levithan 
9. "Kill Me Softly" by Sarah Cross 
10. "Butter" by Erin Jade Lange

Teen Hangout


Teen Hangout CSI Club



















Are you interested in Crime Scene Investigation?  Do you enjoy watching the C.S.I. programs on TV?  Then join us Thursday January 16, 2014 at 4:30 PM as we play a variety of Crime Scene Investigation games that will also give you an inside look at what it truly entails to be a C.S.I investigator.  Don't for get to checkout one of our C.S.I. books.  Click on the CSI book image above to checkout the audio book.

The Hunger Games Trilogy

                                 
                                Come checkout the Hunger Games Trilogy at the El Paso Public Library.

Learning with LEGOS

LEGO Connect is an interactive learning program focusing on creativity and design.  This program is available here at Memorial Park Library branch every Friday from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM.  Age appropriate LEGOS will be provided.  Please do not bring your own.


                                                      


LEGOS Connect Rules
1.      Have fun.
2.   Parents and caregivers are welcome to build with their children.
3.   Please do not bring your own LEGOs to the program. 
4.   LEGOS must be shared  Respect each other’s work.
5.   Everyone helps with clean up at the end of the program.

For more information please call (915) 566-1030
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