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This fun filled workshop will allow students to explore art using pencils, markers, watercolors and collage. Students will receive instructions and begin four projects. For those who speed, they will cross the Finish Line. Those who drive a little more cautiously will have four
projects they may finish at home.
Who: 11-18 years
When: Monday June 5th
Time: 1-3 pm
Where: Lingo Story Room
Registration required. Call 785-580-4565 for your spot today!
So you don't have a car! Don't let that stop you from enjoying all the fun spots in Topeka. The Topeka Transit Team will share many options they have to offer to get you around town.
Who: 11-18 year olds
When: Thursday, June 1
Time: 2-3 pm
Where: Marvin Auditorium
Registration required - call 785-580-4565 for more details.
From CNN.com
Jump in the driver’s seat and build a one stop shop webpage
for teen drivers on the Information Speedway. Your challenge
is to promote the Library’s teen webpage through the creation
of a great web site that will serve teen audiences between the
ages of 11 and 18 years old. See guidelines at http://www.tscpl.org/ya/ya.asp.
Registration required 785-580-4565
One Sunday afternoon in February several area teens discussed the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. The Pizza Party was one of many opportunities that teens had during the Big Read. The teens attend Topeka High, Topeka West, Seaman High School, Seaman Northern Hill Middle School and Washburn University. They all left asking for more book discussion opportunities. Do 
you have a suggestion for a discussion group? Do you have favorite book or series? Do you want to form a book club? What about the Inheritance series -- Eragon and/or Eldest by Christopher Paolini? Or, maybe, the Pendragon series by D. J. MacHale?
Lucy Hurston niece of the author Zora Neale Hurston met the members of the Sister-to-Sister Club from Eisenhower Middle School. 
She spoke with the girls about their “responsibility as girls of color” while citing antidotal stories about her own journey toward receiving her PHD. Lucy is currently an instructor at Manchester Community College in 
Manchester, Connecticut and the author of Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
Venture into the rural India to discover a life completely foreign to our modern world. In this land of arranged marriages, Koly marries a boy she’s never even met! As a married women, Koly is now stuck in her mother-in-law’s home and has to live under her rules. Life is SO not good, and then it suddenly gets worse. Despite having few rights, as a female, Koly manages to stand up for herself and finds a way to support herself.
Find out more about the author and her research on modern India on her website!
It’s simple- it’s a drawing. All you have to do is complete the Summer Reading Program to get your name in the drawing. You can download a Driven to Read reading log or pick one up at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library’s Youth Service Desk or at any of the bookmobiles. You return your completed log to the Youth Services Desk or to a bookmobile. Is reading fun or what? 
Details Cyber Driver Challenge
Jump in the driver’s seat and build a one stop shop webpage for teen drivers on the Information Speedway.
Start your Engine: Your challenge is to promote the Library teen webpage through the creation of a great web site that will serve teen audiences between the ages of 12 and 18 years old.
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Video Game Company Bungie has announced Halo 3 for the XBOX 360 gaming console. The Master Chief will return in 2007 to finish the fight he started in the mega popular XBOX game Halo 2. Plot details and a new trailer have been released. The graphics, sound effects, and plotline all seem to be what we expect from Bungie, first class! Halo fans can breathe deep and relax knowing the Master Chief will be back for a final thrashing of the Covenant. Prepare your assault rifle and frag grenades for this final installment in the Halo trilogy.
Aisha Williams, a Topeka High senior won a $60.00 gift certificate for her art submission in the Their Eyes Were Watching God book cover contest. Executive Director Gina Millsap made the presentation to Aisha on behalf of the Big Read project. Way to go Aisha! 
Stuck in a difficult dungeon. Can't complete that infuriating quest. Need a special item to get to the next level. Look no further!!! Check out the first ever RuneScape fan site Rune Tips. This site offers comprehensive guides, detailed maps, and helpful tables, making it one of the most informative RuneScape sites on the Web.
Do you love to weave words together?
Were you and/or one or both of your birth parents born in another country?
Do you live in the United States or Canada now?
Are you 13-19 years old?
If you answered yes to ALL of the questions above, YOU qualify to enter the 2006 Fire Escape Writing Contests! Submit an original, unpublished poem or story that reflects some of the joys and struggles of growing up between two cultures in America. The Fire Escape will only consider one poem and story per person, so send your best work. (If you like writing non-fiction, too, check out the Fire Escape's Write-a-Review Contest.)
Check out the Young Immigrants site for full contest details.
