Volunteers needed for Craft-A-Gift. Click Below to Sign up but please also sign up as a general volunteer on the volunteer page or you will not be able to come to Craft-A-Gift.
Spring, summer, and fall your (Gr. 6-12) middle school and high school teen can sign-up to volunteer at the library. Most teens are looking for hours for the honor society, CCD, or other organizations.
Teens come into the library and work at the following jobs-
Our busy months are February and March, when the Honors Society deadline falls. We recommend you start early to guarantee that you get a chance to volunteer. We limit the number of volunteers per day to three which means that if you leave it to the last week before your deadline, we may not have any availability. Volunteer appointments can only be made by phone. Once you are on our volunteer list you will receive emails for special event opportunities.
Please fill out the form because this is emergency information the library needs for anyone to volunteer. Once you sign up you can call us and set up a time volunteer. Click on the image above to sign up with our Google form to sign up for Summer 2024- May 2025 or click HERE.
BookTok has made authors such as Colleen Hoover household names. Here are some of the BookTok hits available at our library.
We have almost all of Colleen Hoover’s books in the Westchester Library System, but most of the time, they are out! That’s how popular they are. Drop by the library to put a book on hold and not miss out. Here are some of her YA novels.
Without Merit Regretting You Heart Bones Never Never
Slammed Point of Retreat This Girl
About the Alex Award
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year’s publishing. The Alex Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official ALA award in 2002.
2023 Winners
The Margaret A. Edwards Award, established in 1988, honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. The annual award is administered by YALSA and sponsored by School Library Journal magazine. It recognizes an author’s work in helping adolescents become aware of themselves and addressing questions about their role and importance in relationships, society, and in the world.
2023 Winner
Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of many award-winning books, including Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks, All American Boys (with Brendan Kiely), Long Way Down, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (with Ibram X. Kendi), Stuntboy, in the Meantime (illustrated by Raúl the Third), and Ain’t Burned All the Bright (with artwork by Jason Griffin). The recipient of a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, an NAACP Image Award, and multiple Coretta Scott King honors, Reynolds is also the 2020-2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. He has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Late Night with Seth Meyers, CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America, and various media outlets. He is on faculty at Lesley University, for the Writing for Young People MFA Program and lives in Washington, DC.
The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, first given in 2009, honors a book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.
The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen written by Isaac Blum and published by Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House.
Yehuda “Hoodie” Rosen is a teen whose Orthodox Jewish community has just moved to a quiet, mostly gentile town, and the people – especially the Mayor – aren’t especially welcoming. When Hoodie befriends Anna-Marie, the mayor’s daughter, his community turns on him for siding with the enemy, especially after a series of escalating anti-Semitic crimes. Hoodie has to decide where he stands and figure out where he belongs.
The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.
All My Rage
By Sabaa Tahir
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House
“Tahir deftly tackles Islamophobia, addiction, and abuse in this story of seniors who are struggling in a world that does not seem to want them.” said Printz Committee Chair Valerie Davis.
Follow the link for Grades 7-12 Instructors and Students. There are some great tips to help you with research papers or essays. There's even a section on how to conquer "writer's block". You know - the inability to concentrate and focus and get things on paper, and it's the night before the assignment is due...
A great podcast for grammar/writing questions
While working puzzles, answering quizzes, and learning new words, you'll learn about Shakespeare, his plays, and Elizabethan England.
This is a great poetry resource. Here's how they describe it on the site's home page..."The collection covers roughly 7,000 works by about 800 poets - including some of the best known works in the English language - and many obscure and forgotten works that are well worth reading ."
This isn't your standard poetry - there's something for everyone. Sponsored by the Library of Congress, the introduction says, "Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed."
Poetry webcasts, poetry news and events, columns from the Poet Laureate, and more. The site also has links to many other poetry-related sites, including an archive of recorded poetry and literature.
The nice thing about this site is that it lets you choose the type of problem you need to work on, and then it takes you through four steps....1) a first glance, or simple overview, 2) an in-depth explanation, 3) examples, and finally 4) a chance for you to practice on some real problems.
This is one of the best sites. It's created by people who really love algebra (who ARE these people??). Don't click on any advertising links - just stick to the center area, find the type of problem you're working on, and you'll be able to see lessons, example problems, and more. It's great.
This is a really good site, because it lets you type in a math problem that you're working on, and then it gives you a step-by-step guide on how to solve it. The site covers general math, algebra, geometry, calculus, and other stuff.
A very comprehensive site - there is help with basic math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and more. Again, though, be careful to follow links that are part of the site, and not other ads. Stay to the "Select Subject" menu on the left.
A good site with some basic math reference tables. One really cool feature of this site is a math message board where you can post your specific math question, and get answers from other students and from experts.
This site separates out each of the systems in the human body (skeletal, digestive, muscular, etc) and gives some great illustrations and realistic animations. All in all a good site - with one drawback - there's quite a bit of advertising, and some of it is mixed in pretty tightly with the content - so just be sure you're clicking on the content links and not ads. If you can get by this problem, it's really a very informative site.
OK, this is pretty cool - you can dissect a frog online. Well, obviously not REALLY....but pretty close! Just jump to the "Virtual Frog Dissection Kit", and then don't forget to click on the "Help" file - it will give you some tips for how to move the frog around.
Great graphics on this site, including animations of cells. There are some puzzles as well, and just let me warn you - they are addicting. I spent 15 minutes putting together the streptococcus puzzle.
About.com is really a great all-around site, with information about tons of things. This link will take you to it's "Basics of Geology" page, with links to hundreds of pages and images.
You didn't think there was any science to baseball? Think again! Check your reaction time to see if you could hit a baseball thrown at 95 miles per hour. Other fun stuff including activities and experiments.
This site is great if you need to find a good science project in a hurry. Click on the "Project Ideas" link, and you'll see a whole bunch of different topics to choose from. You can choose projects that match your grade level - anywhere from first grade to senior in high school.
Instructions for making fake blood, a glow-in-the-dark pumpkin, dry ice fog - even fake ectoplasm! Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you'll find links to ideas for costumes, food, even a "mad scientist party"!
Very comprehensive site. And you would expect that, right? I mean it is NASA. The people that have actually gone into space. Separate sections for Grades 9-12, 5-8, K-4.
This site is sponsored by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Great background on the history of the "Space Race" between the United States and the Soviet Union. Great images and a clear and simple explanation.
Yeah, this is a magazine, but you don't have to pay anything to view their website, and there is a lot of really good, basic inforamtion about astronomy, including topics like: "Words Ya Gotta Know", "How to Start Right in Astronomy", "Names of the Stars", and more.
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. And get this...it's developed by none other than the CIA - the Central Intelligence Agency. Good stuff.
Pretty much everything you would ever want to know about each of the 50 United States. State bird, state nickname, weather, population, highest point, government. You get the idea. It's got everything.
This is the official website of the White House, the home of the President of the United States
This page is part of the Internet Public Library. It displays links to biographies of every U.S. President, from George Washington to Joseph Biden. Lots of information, too, like family backgrounds, cabinet members, votes received in elections, etc.
Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.
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