Youth Programs – Waterbury Public Library, Waterbury Vermont

FALL JAMBOREE with Miss Andrea / Thu Sep 10 / 10:30AM

FALL JAMBOREE with MS. ANDREA

Join us on Thursday, September 10th at 10:30AM in the SAL room.

Music, games, and more fall fun!

Garden Harvest Festival / Sat Sep 26 / 1-2pm / library garden

Join us for our third annual Garden Harvest Festival!

From 1:00 – 2:00 pm on Saturday, September 26th in the library gardens!

We will have music, delicious food, and good company! This is a celebration of all the library gardens have to offer! Spend time creating a beautiful poem in our word garden, take a look at our beautiful book garden, and enjoy food featuring the produce grown in our children’s garden!

UVM Master Gardener, Rachel Babin will be there to answer your garden-related questions!

In case of rain, the Garden Harvest Festival will be held in the Steele Community Room.

Storytime / Mondays starting Sep 14 / 10:30am

Storytime

Mondays @ 10:30 am in the SAL room.

* No Storytime August 31st *

Recommended ages 2-5 with caregiver.

Stories, songs, rhymes, and movement designed to develop your child’s language, socialization skills, and love of reading.

Early Release Movie / Wed Sep 16 / 12:30-3:30pm

Early Release Movie Matinee

Wednesday, September 16, 12:30-3:30pm

Spend your early release afternoon at the library by hopping into a fun-filled new animated film about a curious teen who uses groundbreaking technology to become a robotic beaver and discovers a whole new side of the animal world

Art Club / 1st & 3rd Monday / 4-5pm

Art Club

Every First and Third Monday from 4:00 – 5:00pm in the SAL room

Dates:

September 21: Sunography

October 5: Alebrije Hojalata (Mexican Tin Foil Art)

October 19: Halloween Silhouette Art

November 2: paper squishies

November 16: pull string art

Gaming in the SAL / 1st Tuesdays / 3:30-5:30PM

Gaming in the SAL

First Tuesdays of every month from 3:30 – 5:00 pm in the SAL Room.

Dates:

September 1st, October 6th, November 3rd, December 1st

Come relax, hang out, eat snacks, and play Nintendo Switch games with friends!

Choose from a variety of popular multiplayer and single-player games, challenge others, or cheer on your fellow players. No experience is necessary, drop in and have fun.

Teen Hangout / 1st & 3rd Wed / 4-6PM

1st and 3rd Wednesdays from 4:00 – 6:00 PM in the SAL room.

Open teen hangout.

Middle School and High School kids ages 13 – 18 can come on their own after school to talk, snack and just hang out. Snacks and games provided.

The SAL Room will be available as a safe and welcoming space for teens to just be themselves. Youth will be expected to adhere to the library’s behavior policy.

(Ages 12-18)

Teen Queer Reads / 1st Wednesdays / 6-7:30 PM

Teen Queer Reads

A Monthly Book Club for Queer & Allied Youth.

(ages 12-18)

The first Wednesday of each month from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in the SAL Room.

Queer Reads is an LGBTQ-friendly book club for kids 12-18. It’s a safe place to share thoughts around books we are reading and to talk about ideas and issues.

If you have any questions please contact Anathe (Ana-Tay) Parkes @ Anathe@waterburypubliclibrary.com or call the library help desk @ (802) 244-7036.

Please stop by the help desk for a copy of the current months book.

September Discussion Book and Date:

Wednesday, September 2nd from 6:00 – 7:30PM.

Beetle and the Hollowbones

by Aliza Layne

In the eerie town of ‘Allows, some people get to be magical sorceresses, while other people have their spirits trapped in the mall for all ghastly eternity.

Then there’s twelve-year-old goblin-witch Beetle, who’s caught in between. She’d rather skip being homeschooled completely and spend time with her best friend, Blob Glost. But the mall is getting boring, and B.G. is cursed to haunt it, tethered there by some unseen force. And now Beetle’s old best friend, Kat, is back in town for a sorcery apprenticeship with her Aunt Hollowbone. Kat is everything Beetle wants to be: beautiful, cool, great at magic, and kind of famous online. Beetle’s quickly being left in the dust.

But Kat’s mentor has set her own vile scheme in motion. If Blob Ghost doesn’t escape the mall soon, their afterlife might be coming to a very sticky end. Now, Beetle has less than a week to rescue her best ghost, encourage Kat to stand up for herself, and confront the magic she’s been avoiding for far too long. And hopefully ride a broom without crashing.

October Discussion Book and Date:

Wednesday, October 7th from 6:00 – 7:30 PM

The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor

by Shaenon K. Garrity, Christopher J. Baldwin

One dark and stormy night, Haley sees a stranger drowning in the river. Since her greatest passion is Gothic romance novels, she knows her moment has come. But when Haley leaps into the water to rescue the stranger, she awakens in Willowweep. It certainly looks like the setting of one of her favorite books: A stately manor. A sinister housekeeper. Three brooding brothers. There’s even a ghost.

Except Willowweep is not what it seems. Its romantic exterior hides the workings of a pocket universe—the only protection our world has against a great force of penultimate evil, and its defenses are crumbling. Could cruel fate make Haley the heroine that Willowweep needs?

Discussion Group Question Sheets:

Bloom by Kevin Panetta, and Savanna Ganucheau

Crush by Tegan and Sara Quin, Tillie Walden

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Flamer by Mike Curato

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith

Snapdragon by Kat Leyh

Wynd Book One -The Flight of The Prince