TCK-TAB

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Monday, May 18th @ 4:30 pm
Want your voice to be heard? Want to see your ideas be put into action? Join TCK-TAB (The Cook Kids-Teen Advisory Board)!! Get volunteer hours (and food!) by participating in our monthly board meetings. To participate or for more information: leave us a comment, e-mail me, or call or visit us @ the Library!

For this month's meeting we will be celebrating ourselves, each other and everything the TAB has accomplished this past school year with food, games, and fun!

TCK-TAB Meeting

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Monday, April 27th @ 4:30 pm
Want your voice to be heard? Want to see your ideas be put into action? Join TCK-TAB (The Cook Kids-Teen Advisory Board)!! Get volunteer hours (and food!) by participating in our monthly board meetings. To participate or for more information: leave us a comment, e-mail me, or call or visit us @ the Library.

Recent Reads

Luna by Julie Anne Peters

Regan considers herself a loser compared to her older brother, Liam. Liam is popular and loved by everyone. But he has a secret: Liam has been pretending to be Liam all throughout his life. Inside, he feels that he should've been born as a girl named Luna. The only time he can become Luna is at night, when nobody else is looking. Regan has to keep this secret from everyone, which has caused her to lose her friends. But now, while Luna struggles to break free from Liam, Regan is struggling to keep Liam's secret and finds herself falling for the new student in her chemistry class, Chris. Liam's attempts at freeing Luna have caused Regan to lose her friends, sleep, and her baby-sitting job. After Luna is finally free, she gains support from Regan (of course), Alyson (his/her childhood friend), and surprisingly, her mother. This story starts out as a bit confusing, but it flows along with the plot throughout the whole book.

Regan and Luna/Liam seem to be a bit annoying at times, but they're rather interesting characters; Luna is a bit self-absorbed but loves and idolizes Regan a lot, while Regan is the average insecure teenager who complains a lot, yearns for a normal family, but is nevertheless caring and helpful. Personally, I think the story should've been focused more on Luna/Liam rather than Regan, but it's a beautiful book about transexuality, the need for acceptance, the average teenager, and family relationships. Even if you're not gay/lesbian/transgendered, I really recommend you read this book.
*****(5)Stars, Review by TCK-TAB Member

Sound interesting? Check out Luna @ HCPL! Or find out about more great reads here!

TCK-TAB Meeting

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Monday, March 30th @ 4:30 pm
Want your voice to be heard? Want to see your ideas be put into action? Join TCK-TAB (The Cook Kids-Teen Advisory Board)!! Get volunteer hours (and food!) by participating in our monthly board meetings. To participate or for more information: leave us a comment, e-mail me, or call or visit us @ the Library.

TCK-TAB Meeting

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Monday, February 23rd @ 4:30 pm
Want your voice to be heard? Want to see your ideas be put into action? Join TCK-TAB (The Cook Kids-Teen Advisory Board)!! Get volunteer hours (and food!) by participating in our monthly board meetings.


This month we're going to be talking about what fun things we can plan for the summer!

To participate or for more information: e-mail me or call or visit us @ the Library.

TCK-TAB Meeting

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Monday, January 26th @ 4:30 pm
Want your voice to be heard? Want to see your ideas be put into action? Join TCK-TAB (The Cook Kids-Teen Advisory Board)!! Get volunteer hours (and food!) by participating in our monthly board meetings. To participate or for more information: leave us a comment, e-mail me, or call or visit us @ the Library.

TCK-TAB Meeting

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Monday, December 8 @ 4:30 pm
Want your voice to be heard? Want to see your ideas be put into action? Join TCK-TAB (The Cook Kids-Teen Advisory Board)!! Get volunteer hours (and food!) by participating in our monthly board meetings. To participate or for more information: leave us a comment, e-mail me, or call or visit us @ the Library.

TCK-TAB Meeting

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Monday, November 24th @ 4:30 pm
Want your voice to be heard? Want to see your ideas be put into action? Join TCK-TAB (The Cook Kids-Teen Advisory Board)!! Get volunteer hours (and food!) by participating in our monthly board meetings. To participate email the Young Adult Librarian at mlayton@hcpl.net.

TCK-TAB Meeting

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Monday, October 27th @ 4:30 pm
Want your voice to be heard? Want to see your ideas be put into action? Join TCK-TAB (The Cook Kids-Teen Advisory Board)!! Get volunteer hours (and food!) by participating in our monthly board meetings.

This month we'll be meeting in the Children's Activity Space. This meeting officially marks our one-year anniversary for the TAB, so we'll have a short meeting and a party celebrating this momentous occasion! Come in costume if you so desire!

TCK-TAB Meeting

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Monday, August 25th @ 4:30 pm Our August meeting will announce the return of TCK-TAB for the school year! Join us in the first floor Community Room for food, program planning, brainstorming and more!

Want your voice to be heard? Want to see your ideas be put into action? Join TCK-TAB (The Cook Kids-Teen Advisory Board)!! Get volunteer hours (and food!) by participating in our monthly board meetings. To participate email or for more information, call or visit us @ the Library, e-mail me or leave us a comment!

TCK-Teen Advisory Board

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Monday, June 30th @ 4:30 pm

For this month's meeting we brainstormed ideas for a TCK-TAB t-shirt for TCK-TAB members, including whether or not we should have a cute mascot, what kind of graphics might look cool, and how a t-shirt might help signify to staff and library patrons all the activities in which TCK-TAB members are involved.

We also talked about some potential ideas for future Anime Club meetings, such as having a "make your own Anime avatar" session or a Club meeting focused more on a discussion of manga and television series.

TCK-TAB members also recommended several crafts we could do in the Fall and Winter - so keep your eyes peeled for some TCK-TAB-inspired creativity!

Interested in joining TCK-TAB? Come see us @ Freeman, e-mail me, or call the Library and ask for Meredith, Daisy or Robert!

TCK-TAB Meeting

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Monday, May 19th @ 4:30 pm
Freeman's TCK-TAB (The Cook Kids-Teen Advisory Board) May meeting proved to be both fun and productive!!

We discussed what kinds of cool programs we'd like to see happening in September and October, once school is back in swing, when the fun of summer has died away and the harsh reality of waking up early again to sit through that first class of the morning has come upon us.

September and October also have several celebrations, such as Hispanic Heritage Month, Banned Books Week, and Teen Read Week! This year's Teen Read Week theme is "Books with Bite" and we had a great time thinking of vampire- and eating-themed activities - from Fear Factor to a spot the rubber snake in the library competition!

Would you like to join TCK-TAB? Would you like your brilliant ideas be put into action? Do you need any volunteer hours? Do you like food? E-mail me @ mlayton@hcpl.net or leave me a comment for more information!

TCK-TAB Meeting

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Monday, April 28th @ 4:30 pm
Join us in the first floor meeting room for our monthly TCK (The Cool Kids) - TAB (Teen Advisory Board) meeting, as well as food, conversation, and fun!
For this month's meeting we will: discuss upcoming programs; prepare for our May Teen Anime Mini-Convention (May 13th-May 15th); work on our Summer Reading Program kick-off party; and provide recommendations of what cool, interesting, and fun activities, books, games, movies, music, graphic novels, manga, magazines, and more (!) that we can provide here in the Freeman Teen Zone!
Interested in join TCK? Interested in beefing up your resume or college application? Interested in volunteerism? Interested in socializing with friends and eating pizza? Contact me @ mlayton@hcpl.net or give us a call @ Freeman.

Teen Advisory Board - or - TCK (The Cool Kids)

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This past Monday, March 31st, we had our third Teen Advisory Board meeting. We had a great time discussing potential programs for Freeman, including:

Costume parties
Trash-to-treasure crafting and inventing
Wii and PS2 gaming programs
Music days
Midnight or late night programming
Magic programs
Comedy nights
Movie programs
and more!

We also talked about changing our name from the Freeman Teen Advisory Board to TCK (or - The Cool Kids).

Our next meeting will be held on April 28, 2008 @ 4:30 pm in the Meeting Room.

Do you need volunteer hours? Do you have program recommendations? Would you like to get involved here at Freeman with the TCK?? Contact me @ mlayton@hcpl.net