June 4, 2014

JUNE PROGRAMS

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.

       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!