ADVENTURE BEGINS AT YOUR LIBRARY: Teen Summer Reading 2024
June 13 - August 13
Teens Entering Grades 6 and up
All About Teen Summer Reading:
Log your reading this summer using the Beanstack app and be automatically entered to win weekly prizes! Receive additional tickets for each title you read and for every book review you write. Prizes include hands-on robotics projects, felting kits, and gift certificates to the Hickory Stick Bookshop.
Register here beginning 6/13: www.owlibrary.beanstack.org
Weekly Programs
Crochet Crusaders
Tuesdays: 1:30 - 2:30 PM - June 18 - July 23 | Register here.
Want to get started crocheting or just share what you are crocheting with others?
Join our crocheting circle for new and intermediate crocheters! Drop in for all or some of the circle meetings.
At each Crochet Crusaders, we will have the supplies and materials needed for you to crochet a beginner-level project. If you are an experienced crocheter you can make multiples of the projects or bring your own work from home.
It's a fun way to learn or expand your crochet skills, and meet and talk with fellow crocheters! Teen Crocheter and OWL Senior Shelver Yusra El Khalfi will lead the group. Registration is suggested to help us plan for supplies.
Here is our schedule for planned projects:
* June 18: Vinyl Coaster
* June 25: Flower Coaster
* July 2: Butterfly Chain
* July 9: Sprout Bookmark
* July 16: Kitty Charm
* July 23: Frog Charm
Yusra El Khalfi is the Senior Teen Shelver and Assistant at Oliver Wolcott Library. She has a passion for crocheting and has even designed some of her own projects.
LEGO Club: Teen Session
Fridays at 3:30 PM - June 21 - August 9 | Register here.
Do you love LEGO?! Come to OWL on Friday afternoons all summer long for LEGO Club! We will have a theme or prompt to direct your build. Registration is appreciated.
OWL's YA & Children's Audio Program
Do you love listening to audiobooks but no longer have access to a CD player?
We can help! Check out one of our 5 circulating CD players and receive a free pair of earbuds and a retro prize from our 90s time capsule! You will also receive a prize for any Juvenile or Young Adult CD audiobooks that you check out. Prizes include koosh balls, mini troll dolls, and slap bracelets all harkening back to the decade when portable CD players were all the rage.
Teen E-List
Join our E-List for Teens to keep updated on our current program offerings! Click here to sign up
Catch the bus to OWL
Need to take the bus to OWL for a program? Bus service is available for Litchfield Public School Students. If your child or teen needs a ride to OWL from the Litchfield Public Schools, notify the school in writing at least two weeks prior to the program date.
Outreach
Too busy with sports and afterschool activities to make it to OWL, with weekly drop-in crafts at the LMS/LHS Media Center we bring the programs to you!
Materials for Teens
OWL’s teen collection is stocked with new and popular fiction, timely nonfiction created especially for teens, audiobooks, e-content, and an extensive graphic novel collection. Search our catalog here.
Teen Staff Reading Recommendations
For Young Adult Recommended Reading from our Young Adult Librarian, Patricia Moore (aka Mrs. Tricia), click here.
Other questions on Teen Reading, Events or Programs?
Email Patricia Moore at [email protected]