When: Friday April 1st 7 Pm- Till whenever , Ages 13 thirteen and up. Adults Welcome!
Where: @ Bethesda Church Swedesboro, NJ
Sponsored By Swedesboro GCLS Teen Advisory Board & Zero Youth Group
Synaesthesia
Two For The Road
East Ave
Full Circle
“When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds”
“When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she’d dye”
“I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then is hit me.”
“Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest”
+ Be looking out for our grand opening of the new Swedesboro library! ~Coming Soon~
(Date To Be Announced)
+ Up coming open coffee House at Bethesda Church in Swedesboro. April 1st, live music and refreshments; bring your friends! More info coming soon.
+ Read Across America at 6:30 PM, March 1st, at Bethesda Church. Bring the kids and listen to live reading and a special guest!
The Swedesboro Christmas parade was on November 27th, 2010. There were eleven kids and two adults in attendance. I was one of the teens helping out. We had a wagon with a Christmas tree in it, and a lot of ornaments about the library as well. We also had a banner for the library, and two teens carried it in front of the marching people in the parade. Other kids helped pass out candy. The candy mostly consisted of Dum-dums. It was a cold windy day; but, everyone had a god time.
Article written by,
Shelby Carlton
“Animal Farm” views as a simple children’s book. Perhaps thought to be read at night to sleeping kids by caring parents. However, what truly makes this book an interesting read is not what is written between the two covers, yet what is hidden between them.
George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” has not survived for over 40 years simply by being a great children’s story. It has survived because beneath its child-like plot lies an entire shift of political power in a country. “Animal Farm” was written to express Orwell’s opinions on the Russian Revolution. This novel was disguised as a children’s book to protect Orwell from government punishment. The novel is only 141 pages and a has a moderate amount of words per page. Orwell succeeds in this novel at bringing a new form of “book” to the table. “Animal Farm’ can be read simply as the story in its pages, the life of a group of animals who decide to revolt; or as an in-depth parallel to the communism overtake in Soviet Russia. This duel meaning is what makes “Animal Farm” great for kids all the way up to adults, depending on how the reader chooses to read it.
Although the plot can be dull and expectable at times, it still manages to entertain even the most demanding teenage readers. “Animal Farm” is not a book for those who desire magic and fantasy type novels. Yet, if you are a person who enjoys a well-written storyline that can be paralleled to historical events, complete with mild humor and hidden morals; then , George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” may just be the novel for your next book club, or personal read.
Review written by,
Hunter Gregal
On November 20th, the teens on the Swedesboro Library Teen Advisory Board helped with a Thanksgiving Festival for the local children. In all, 27 people attended the festival. There was 14 children, of all ages, 7 teen volunteers, and 6 adults. There were 8 booths filled with fun activities for the children. The children went from booth to booth, coloring Thanksgiving pictures and completing some challenging Thanksgiving word finds, and they even illustrated a Thanksgiving book written by some of the local teenagers. Afterwards, they made a pumpkin face, complete with all sorts of silly mouths, eyes, and noses. They decorated a cookie with fun icing colors and they even made cheerio necklaces. The children had fun showing off turkeys masks they made. Turkeys were also designed by the children using the children’s very own hands. Lastly, the children played two Thanksgiving games then ended with a Thanksgiving story read by one of the teenage volunteers.
The entire festival lasted about an hour, from 10:30-11:30am. This was a very fun event for the children as well as the teens who volunteered!
Article written by,
Abigail Cicione
“Why do we wash bath towels? Aren’t we clean when we use them?”
“Why doesn’t glue sick to the inside of the bottle?”
“Why is it called after dark when really it is after light?”
“Why are wise man and wise guy opposites?”
“Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in suitcases?”
“If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?”
“Why do slow down and slow up mean the same thing?”
“Why do we saying something is out of whack? What is a whack?”
If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay people to do it?”
“If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?”
“Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?”
“How come abbreviated is such a long word?”
These fit so well they ought to be in a dictionary!!
-ADULT: a person who has stopped growing at both ends and is not growing in the middle.
-BEAUTY PARLOR: a place where women curl up and dye.
-CANNIBAL: someone who is fed up with people.
-CHICKENS: the only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
-COMMITTEE: a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
Some goofy things:
-If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.
-A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
-We’ll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.
-Thieves who steal corn from a cornfield could be charged with stalking.
-To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
A girl was visiting her blonde friend, who had acquired two new dogs, and asker her what their names were. The blonde responded by saying that one was named Rolex and the other Timex. Her friend said, “whoever heard of someone naming dogs like that?” “HELLLOOOOOOO…,” answered the blonde, “they’re watch dogs!”