Impromptu Magic Show!!

Local Sunnyslope teen and Criss Angel fan gave an impromptu magic show performance at Acacia. Using cards and other gimmicks this talented teen kept a group of children spellbound for over thirty minutes. This Sunnyslope magician who calls his magic show Mindtap is currently signed up to do a free magic show on July 15th at 3:00 at Acacia. We hope this happens! Criss Angel, watch out!

Jam Session @ Teen Central

An urgent notice to all teens who play an instrument or would like to! On July 2 and 9 from 2-4 PM, Teen Central at Burton Barr library will be hosting an awesome musical free-for all. Bring your instrument if you have one; if not, that's OK because we will have some stuff for you to use. We should have a couple of guitars, a bass, and a drum set for any interested people to mess around with. Pick something up, play it for awhile, and pass it on to someone else!! This session will also be recorded for posterity.

It doesn't matter if you have never played before or if you are a hugely talented showoff, all are welcome at this event. Just bring your ability to have fun!

Desert Sage Teen Ducks

We did it. A teen volunteer ducky!

who loves stopmotion!!

this is for all who love stop-motion. STOP-MOTION COMPETITION!!!!! start your camcorders and GO! the only rule is that you can not say bad words. the person who wins gets their video on the blog and gets a make it yourself stop-motion puppet supplies. all stop-motion videos must be submitted by the maker and must be submitted by July 14Th 2008. send all submissions to: stopmotioncompititionforblog@hotmail.com ages 12-18.

-stop-motion guy

also if you like playing video games. come to the mesquite branch library on july 8TH for Express it! come hang out from 2:00-4:00pm and play ps2 and wii! "e" and "t" rated games, guitar hero. open for all teens 12-18

Street Surfers

Is there any one who street surfs with the wave like me. If there is and you are good at it please respond to this. If you can at least ollie or kickflip and land it awesome. You can be professional, all you need is the wave board and a helmet. If you are able to go to the Express it at Mesquite and you have the Wave or the ripple (not Ripstick or Harricane board) tell me and we can see who is better or we can make a video and see if we can get sponsered by the street surfing company (as im trying right now)

-Boberta

P.S. the following link is a video i have made of me street surfing tell me if you think i can get sponsered http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ck1TPuCL4gc

Hot sweet and sticky

We had the hot, sweet and sticky work shop last night here at acacia. it was fun! we got to make our own filled chocolates. and
it was toatlay awsome! :) :):):)P LOL
summergirl:)

Face Painting!!

Teen volunteers have fun face painting with the little ones at Acacia. Parents and children lined up to have flowers, hearts, and other designs painted on their hands and faces.

READING BUDDIES Rock the Kiddies!

Mequite Volunteers got some training in reading to children and have entertained and delighted our young guests during program days and whenever they have time to roll out the reading buddy cart. Kids love to talk with the teens and parents have a hard time getting the kids to leave!

Theatre Camp..... :] SUMMER FUN!

Its me Peaceman and I was in a musical at school.. and now I got into theatre and stuff and I applied for a scholarship at Valley Youth Theatre's Summer Workshop/Camp because I thought it would be fun to do it. I didn't really want to pay $630 for a camp that consists for about a month. xD and I got the scholarship and I THINK ITS GONNA ROCK!!!... But yeah All im saying to you bloggers out there that, you can do anything to pursue your goals in life... :]

Check out www.theatrefinearts.blogspot.com

-Peaceman!
P.S. FUN is a Renewable Resource :]

Its Peaceman :]

So Today I made another peguin with a Paper Bag and I made an Emo Ducky and made a Hamburger out of Fabric.. I'm going to get our Librarian to scan and upload :]

survey! survey! survey!

The Xtreme Media Center has more questions for you...

65% of teens who answered our last survey were most interested in music creation, so we want to learn more about what you think about that.
Click here to take the survey!

Thank you! Your responses will help us make the Xtreme Media Center (or whatever it's going to be called) awesome!

Music camp

I had a awsome band consert last night. I went to muic camp for three week's during the day this summer and had a blast. I play flute and I sang in the choir. in the choir part of the concert I messed up and started singing the guy's part and the little girl next to elbowed me in the side in the middle of our song! it was really funny evreyone thought that she had hit me. I'm all sad today becuse camp is over and I dont have anythigng to do ecsept work on school work.....(boring).
summergirl:)

Hello :]

Hello Bloggers its A and M from Acacia and Just wanted to say hi to everyone, and desert sage teens we really want to learn how to do balloon animals so if we see you guys at the naturalization ceremony maybe you can bring balloons and show us :] Were looking foward to this :] :] and Yeah, and has anyone seen any cool movies lately???? Wow Our Librarians are being so cool at the moment and like its funny cuz we painted a rubber ducky black and added paper legs to it to make it look like a penguin.. very!! FUNNY! and we gave it to our librarian who likes penguins xD FUNNY!.. Well Stay cool Bloggers and have an awesome summer...


P.S. Anyone going anywhere for the summer??

Express it with Wii

Yes, I said Wii. Mesquite has just received the Wii!!! It will now be available for your use at the Express It on July 8 from 2:oo-4:00pm. Remember, we also have Guitar Hero! So Join us July 8 so we can express our love for Wii. Snacks and other activities will also be available if you want to Express IT in another way. See you on July 8 at Mesquite's Meeting Room in the library! :)

Teen Advisory Board For Mesquite

This Post is for anyone between the ages of 12-18 who is looking for a fun activity that they can do to earn community service hours and have fun! The Mesquite's TAB will be having it's next meeting on July 8 from 4:00-5:00pm at Starbucks in the PV Mall. All you have to do to join is come!! We will be having prizes for riddle breakers and anyone who brings a friend. Remember to bring great ideas for what YOU want to see in the teen area. TAB members are the ones who bought the love sacs that are currently in the teen area. So you can add your contribution too. Candy, like always, will be available, all we need is the ideas. SEE YOU THERE!!!

Mesquite Library Summer Reading Program

For the summer of 2008, the Mesquite Library, once again, holds the summer reading program, Read Your Way to the Ballpark. We have a big number of teens helping out this summer, and we are excited to be a part of the summer volunteer program this summer. The prizes for the program include a sticker prize, a rubber duck prize (with a variety of ducks to choose from), a puzzle prize, and a monkey in a barrel prize plus a bonus D-Backs ticket. The grand prize drawing is for a $50 Target gift card. The teen program has a good variety of prizes, also. They include gift certificates to Wendy's, Sonic, Chic-Fil-A (did I spell that right?), and other assorted resterants. The grand prize drawing is a spot to be a guest DJ on 95.1 Latino Vibe. You get a VIP ticket to a party upon completion of the reading program and a raffle ticket to win a video MP3 player. I think it will be an exciting summer at the Mesquite Library, and I hope all other libraries will have an exciting summer as well. 5 year volunteer.

Twilight Comic Contest!

Do you love the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer? If so, be sure to enter Teen Central's Twilight comic/art contest.

Create a vampire- or werewolf-themed comic in honor of the Twilight series. All styles (pencil drawing, ink, painting, digital) and skill levels are welcome. You can come to Teen Central to pick up comic templates, make your own, or create your comic using a site like Stripcreator, Toondoo, or Strip Generator. Your comic can have as many panels as you want, or just fill up a page with a single scene! It's entirely up to you, just be creative and have fun.

All entries will be displayed in Teen Central. The top three
entries will receive a Harkins Prize pack, which will include Harkins
cups, popcorn coupons, and passes to see the Twilight movie when it is
released in December (or any other movie).

The winners will be announced at the Twilight Party on July 16, 2008
and will have their comics displayed on Teen Central's Myspace page.

This contest is open to everyone ages 12-18. Deadline for entry is July 10. Bring your entries to the Teen desk at Burton Barr Central Library! We are looking forward to seeing them.

Monkey Business

Teens at WORK

balloon animals. chicaaaa wooonch

check us out! check all our hard WORK! watch you might learn something.{cough}anthony{cough}..

Balloon Animals! =]

Volunteers to the extreme!
we had 150 out of control kids lined up wanting impossible shapes and 3 teens overcame this amazing obstacle in one hour. They succeeded in pleasing all the impaient/rude rascals and were exhausted. After being bombarded and with no choice, they pumped, twisted, and formed all 200 and up balloon animals.
which the three teens{which shall no be named} had learned to make these animals in 20 minutes! 0_o ^_^ we rocked!

Clown Magic

Is what we did Tuesday, June 3. Retired police officer, Mark Ruffennach, preformed mind-boggling magic tricks for us at Mesquite Branch. He entered the library as a normal guy and left as a hobo clown. Sadly there was a death during his perfomance. During his act with his trained pet fly, he clapped along with the audience as he absent mindedly squashed the fly between his hands. Luckily the fly was imaginary. His next trick he used three different sized ropes and made them all equal without the use of scissors, knives, or any other cutting instrument. He put a needle through a balloon without it popping. He then blew bubbles and caught one from the air. For his final trick he portrayed a dramatizing magic light show. Oh, and about the skunk he threatens the kids to be quiet or he'll spray an awful aroma!!!! THATS MAGIC!!???!!

-Turtle & Blossem Flowers

Best game

What is the best game of all time ????
And the best system to play it on ????
-Alafa70

Gud Books RHard 2 Find???

why is this?

thank G*d for librarians.... hahaha

BRODUMB CAN KILL!!!!!!!!!

hey blogees another day another hr and the library well things a slow this morning while volunteering no wild kids no shelving jus a bunch of nada(nothing) well guess I'll blog u later then peace
-Gary-

Music

Hey fellow blogers me again
Well there are many artist so what music and artist r u interested in so comment back wit there name and artist.
My latest favorite is

Hate it or love it blog about it so leave ur comments
-Gary-

whats up, Its the big B, BERLIN, the summer has been great so far.
Been workin and stackin paper, life has been good, graduated on the
27th of may and been chillin, hangin out with friends. Went and saw
sex and the city with some of my friends and it a good movie, all my
guy you should take your girls, it will SCORE YOU SOME POINTS
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!!! ;)

WAZZUP

Whats up, people its Mr. Mac-Daddy/ A.k.A Ja1s0n
just keepin' it real.

Hey blogers and bloogettes

hey ppl of the blog wrold it's me gary
and its my frsit blog ever
i dnt really kno wat 2 say
well nothins new and i hope next time
there will be more fun stuf to blog about





-Gary-