Life Skills Class presents a check to the Library

Laura Welder from Ashli Dreher’s Lew-Port High School Life Skills Class recently presented the library’s Executive Director Ronald W. Shaw with a check for $200. The monies, to be used for audiovisual materials, were earned by the students who worked at the popular Chapter’s Coffee Café during the 2008-2009 school year.

“Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario”

“Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario” will be presented by the NY State Parks Department on October 10th at 1:00p.m. This family program, geared for teens and adults. The event is sponsored by The Friends of the Lewiston Public Library. The program is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

“RIGHTS DENIED”

This spring, the Lewiston Public Library will be offering a series of book discussions called “Rights Denied.” The series of four programs, led by Sharon Green, Reading Coordinator at Niagara University, center around the theme of basic civil and human rights.
The first program, to be held on March 24th and starting at 6:30, will feature [...]

Teen Poetry Slam

I would like to thank everyone who participated in our first ever Teen Poetry Slam!  It was definitely a resounding success.  Special accolades to Norah Perez and Bob Giannetti, our special guest readers.  And of course our favorite children’s librarian, Miss Lorraine Yaeger, deserves a round of applause for parading around in her special Hat [...]

Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott

Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott
Reviewed by Suzanne Dlugolonski, Teen Services Librarian
I truly enjoy Elizabeth Scott’s books. The protagonists are very real and the average reader can relate to their plights.  In Scott’s newest book, Perfect You, Kate has lost her best friend, is humiliated by her dad, and is perennially confused by boys. What 16 [...]

Beastly by Alex Flinn

Beastly by Alex Flinn
Reviewed by Suzanne Dlugolonski, Teen Services Librarian 
Beastly is not a book I would have normally selected to read. Fantasy is not my preferred genre, but since author Alex Flinn is speaking at a conference I am attending next month, I figured I would try her twist on an old fairy tale.
This modern-day Beauty and the Beasttakes place [...]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
Reviewed by Suzanne Dlugolonski, Teen Services Librarian
The sequel to last year’s smash hit Diary of a Wimpy Kid did not disappoint!  In Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Greg Heffley returns with his embarrassing summer tucked safely behind him… or is it? Only Rodrick knows [...]

The Ashleys: There’s a New Name in School by Melissa de la Cruz

The Ashleys: There’s a New Name in School by Melissa de la Cruz
Reviewed by Suzanne Dlugolonski, Teen Services Librarian
The movie “Heathers” meets “My Super Sweet 16″ in a junior high version of beautiful, rich, powerful, and deliciously mean girls. In Melissa de la Cruz’s new series, appropriately named The Ashleys, Ashley Spencer, Ashley Li, and [...]

Your Own, Sylvia by Stephanie Hemphill

Your Own, Sylvia by Stephanie Hemphill
Reviewed by Suzanne Dlugolonski, Teen Services Librarian
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath tells the tragic story of Sylvia Plath’s rise and fall through poetry. Author Stephanie Hemphill took true accounts from the life of Plath and imagined the thoughts, feelings, and exchanges that took place around those [...]

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Reviewed by Suzanne Dlugolonski, Teen Services Librarian
Seventh grade can be tough—especially if your teacher hates you. In Gary D. Schmidt’s The Wednesday Wars, Holling Hoodhood is left alone every Wednesday afternoon with the treacherous Mrs. Baker. While his Catholic and Jewish classmates leave early for religious education, Presbyterian Holling [...]