Youth Services - Appoquinimink Library

The nominees have been announced and we're leaving it up to the readers to vote for their favorite. Read all 5 books in your favorite category: Picture Book, Chapter Book or Teen Book and CAST YOUR VOTE!

 

 

 

For questions or to register for Job Center Classes ONLY please send an email to Alta Porterfield  alta.porterfield@lib.de.us

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 Tricks to a Successful Job Search

 

Create a Winning Resume

Individual Resume Critiquing

 

Internet Job Search

Open Lab  and assistance until 5:00 p.m.

 

 

June 11: Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer (PG)

July 16: The Secret Life of Arrietty (G)

August 13: RIO (G) 

 

You bring your creativity and we'll provide the LEGO's for a fun-filled hour of imagination!

 

 

Drop in for a lively and fun conversation while learning the latest knitting techniques. All levels of knitting experience welcome! Teens/Adults

 

Join our monthly book group for a lively and fun in-depth discussion! Bring a friend! Adults.

September 18: Catherine the Great: A Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

 

Reserve your copy today!  http://ilsapp.lib.de.us

 

Children of all ages will have fun creating a make n' take summer themed craft.

 

 

Our experienced quilters will be glad to guide you step-by-step on the basics of quilting. Don't be shy. Bring a friend and your creativity! Teens/Adults.

 

Delaware Money School's Financial Literacy Institute offers free programs at the Appoquinimink Library. Check their website for dates and topics.

Take to the skies as this introduction to rocketry explains how and why rockets fly. If weather permits, you'll witness a real model rocket launch!! 

Follow the adventures of Miles, a young boy, and his friend, a bird, that is unable to fly in the forest.

Presented by the Segal Puppet and Theater Company.

Find out what the archaeologists found at digs along the Route 301 improvement project.

Tunnel into the world of digging animals. Children will meet some Super Shovels and learn about the tools animals use to build homes and search for food.

Back by popular demand! Jungle John will be here to show us live, exotic reptiles of all kinds from around the world.

Mike Rose will demonstrate his impossible magic tricks and off-the-wall comedy, all themed around things that occur underground!

This classic children's tale will be performed by the Rags to Riches Theater Troupe!

Simple Gifts is a musical duo presenting folk music and songs from around the world, featuring hammered dulcimers, guitars, concertinas, recorders, spoons, and more! Your feet will be tapping and your hands will be clapping!

 

*Support for this program is made possible by a collaboration between the Delaware Division of the Arts and the Delaware Division of Libraries. (Funding is partially provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by The Heinz Endowments; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.)

Use a wide variety of materials to make stamps and stencils. Make patterns, logos, and designs, and then transfer them to rubber or make cut-outs and use these to create prints using ink and paint on paper. Keep your stencil and stamp for future use.

Presented by Catharine Maloney.

Come to the library to dig into the amazing world of the rainforest. You and your child will learn about its plants and animals and how they have adapted to this wet and wonderful environment.  Decorate the layers of the rainforest, make a tree frog, and a jaguar mask. See if you can identify the members of the rainforest food chain, and play the animal adaptations game.

Mike the miner and his puppet friends will share some of their favorite books they have discovered in the Great Books Mine! Performed by Rick Waterhouse.

Meet Chestnut the Squirrel, Pesto the Super Worm, and Henry the Magic Rabbit as they present a fun-filled, high energy magic show!

Dave will lead a discussion on the reality of the treasure hunt and the possible treasure that is to be found beneath our very feet. Tools of the trade will be displayed and weather permitting, Dave Poland will demonstrate his metal detector.

Draft and revise an essay based on personal experiences and values. Depending on the participants' selected topics, completed essays may be suitable for college admission applications or for publication in the Library's literary magazine. Presented by Kristin Yonko.

 

Children will see a life-size model of a juvenile right whale, learn about its life in the sea, practice their measuring skills and more! Children will also create a project to take home.

A puppet show with daring adventures and some close encounters with strange creatures from a world you never knew existed. Presented by Tuckers' Tales.

 

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