Chess Club
Children (3rd-6th
Grade) 7:-7:55pm
YA & Adults (7th-Adult) 8:-8:55pm
Our chess club will meet on Tuesdays, June 10th & 24th. New players welcome! All skill levels welcome. Sign up online or at the Adult Reference Desk.
YA & Adults (7th-Adult) 8:-8:55pm
Our chess club will meet on Tuesdays, June 10th & 24th. New players welcome! All skill levels welcome. Sign up online or at the Adult Reference Desk.
Beach Bag Book Club
It is our 6th annual Beach Bag Book Club
and we’re pulling out all the stops! Teens will get to discuss a
book pre-selected for them with not only our favorite YA author Jen Calonita,
but with the author of the book itself! Everyone
that signs up gets a beach bag to tote all of your favorite books around in
this summer, and the first 10 people to sign up will receive
a free book from one of our guest authors on the day of the BBBC event! We are starting our club off
with an amazing panel of YA authors - Susane Colasanti, Elizabeth
Eulberg, Jen. E. Smith and Kieran Scott!
Tuesday, June 3rd at
6:30pm
And continuing into July with the amazing duo of Sarah Mlynowski and E.
Lockhart!
Tuesday, July 29th at
7pm
Sign up in advance
online or at the Adult Reference Desk. Open to grades 6 and up. Don’t
miss this amazing opportunity!! These events will take place at the Merrick
Library at 2279 Merrick Avenue.
Chicken & Dumplings
Thursday, June 5th
7pm
After a demonstration we will prepare all the
ingredients and use dumpling wrappers to create delicious Asian
dumplings. We will bring them home in a tin to cook.
BBQ Sauce
Tuesday, June 10th 4pm
We are going to cook up some homemade BBQ sauce, bottle it up and design
a label to take with the sauce. Makes a great Father's Day gift!
Vegetable Quesadillas
Tuesday, June 17th 7pm
Celebrate Eat Your Vegetable Day here
at the Library with delicious vegetable quesadillas. After a demonstration we
will prepare our fresh ingredients and cook our quesadillas in the Library. We
will also make guacamole from scratch! Bring your appetite!
Teen Summer Reading Club 2014
“SPARK A REACTION”
SRP Kick-Off Party on Tuesday, July 1st
4:30pm
Join us to kick-off the summer right and Spark
a Reaction at our SRP pizza party on July
1st
at 4:30pm! Sign up for the teen
summer reading club while eating pizza, playing Bingo and other fun games,
making crafts, and entering raffles to win more prizes! All
students entering 6th through 12th grade in September can join NBL’s summer reading club from
July 1st
to August 19th.
As a member you will
read books, write reviews of the books you have read, and submit them for a
chance to win the weekly raffle. When you sign up for the summer reading club
you will get a chance to guess how many candies are in the jar at the library.
The closest guess wins the whole jar!