you by the peters township public library i am a shannon i'm youth services librarian at the library and basically i do all the programs for teenagers as vols assist the children's programs and collection and i miss linda am the children's librarian the purpose of book buzz is to give you an opportunity another way of finding out what's happening at your library within the children's partment the young adult department and we are bringing it right into your living room really really ok can i tell you something then all right so if you say really there used to be a show that ok i'm hoping that when i remember seeing it it was  reruns like we could do that it actually looked like they talked about being like in your living room which is kind of creepy now but i thought she always felt romper room and they always held up i thought she held up a tennis racket and it's actually like this mirror in that turned magical and really a week ago today spring officially started ok ok i know that it has absolutely been longest relented last winter that i can enter and i'm older than  right i think it was about a week before spring was really beginning and i decided i'd had enough i couldn't stand looking at the snowflakes i thought maybe it was chinks and that we had our winter stuff out there in the first thing i did was pull down all the winter books and shove them away when i was pulling down the snowflakes there were moms that were there with their children cheering me on they were they were cheering me on them go in there like take them down because maybe that would change iraq that we would no longer be in winter so i believed that theory being an optimist in the cup half full kind of thing and i put up the spring and i honked at the hang did we kind of like the flowery things and got that already and i'm getting ready to like hang butterflies and stuff and then the first day of told the children it let me back up a little bit it is officially spring because as you know this week started all of our spring programming i even have you know our our program here  our spring programs are are totally underway and we had a really fun program this week and i told the children and the parents i said you apps well you never want to miss you never want to miss our story times or  and the look forward to it that of like done it like my preschoolers that may have done it as toddlers because you know we keep coming back we're starting as baby does work their way through all the way through high school and you know maybe through college along with a the moms of that are pregnant they're like but i couldn't find it so this is this is going to make us spring so you put it on your side because you're the one with i didn't say anything we actually weep we plant some flowers and what the kids like but that is they haven't put it in a pot they decorate the pot and stuff in the soil and of course i find the most amazing sunflower seeds that actually work nothing is more disappointing than planting something and the children don't get anything that kind of a farmer and then instead they you know they come in all excited and give me every moment of the growth we're just really fine i mean pictures and the parents want to talk about it and everything so that's been a lot of fun but since you brought up i don't want a rainbow yeah  it has really grown into this awesome awesome program we have every week every month we meet the first saturday of the month at ten o'clock in the morning and each month we do a different book like upcoming actually next weekend and next week i'll be sister they're out playing one day and they find this free house and in the woods and there is obviously curious because the little kids and i would probably be curious the tree out in the woods too and they go up in it and they find all these books and they love books which obviously cool and would love books and they all the books are from different time periods or stories about different time periods and they find that when they open a book and wish that they would go there then the treehouse starts to spend like crazy and all of sudden they're basically time travel to another time or place so the magic with a lot of magic for house fans the very popular series for school age children really elementary school we have been going to gardeners even in our group and even preschoolers that enjoy listen to stories being read to them so pretty much anyone is a fan and what we do for it is we read night at dawn and we the kids actually got to make night posters and we did some different medieval i could use for that and sometimes depending on how the seasons go or what's going on in the world i'll try to choose my titles accordingly so the ten o'clock so and you don't have to come every month you know whatever works best for your schedule and we've a lot of athletes and so different soccer seasons and stuff like that will turn into play but even when you can and we ask you how the book read beforehand and i always do but and i also like it because there's like a good jillian magic treehouse books right but i will tell you i timed it that i think i can do a different book every month for about four years maybe five years really and by that point the kids that are in it will no cracks me up and then she also does the fact trackers were like if you really enjoy a certain topic you don't you can read a nonfiction book that was also written by mary pope was born that has to do with that because so i like about my book group because i know you have some  awesome book groups going to do well i'll tell you what this is probably the best year that i've had no offense to any other years all the girls want the girls are all wonderful i do the girls book group that you know and usually starts about you know third grade and up give or take you know and then as you know we get parents that all come and say well you know my child is in second grade and has read gone with the wind and that's an exaggeration but but that's ahead of themselves and reading so we'll let it participate and yet wants to participate and they will but they want them to have the experience of being in a book group and with that in mind the only thing that as you know gets challenging is like when you do your homeschooling group when you have kids of all ages trying to trying to make it work for everybody you know you don't want it to be too simplified or are just too hard to whether it's in you know content or words or whatever but this group they are so much fun it's the largest group i've had it keeps building be there it's just word of mouth and of course keeping in touch with who put everything on the website in the magazine and all that stuff but they are so much fun that i told them the last time we were together we took pictures i always do you know we talk about it and you know do trivia and do things and last time whilst what our book was you know we did this craft i'm taking pictures and and the girls are just like you know we really love this and i from the heart i've really tell them that i love it too  we kind of talk a lot of fun yeah we talked a little bit about summer then they want to go through the whole summer that's me up because usually in the summer you want to like them very much to have to like work your brain but we want children to read and write you know in the future w talk about our reading program so i told one of the moms i said they are so great i might have to follow them up like through college and keep reading to them how to do with the appropriate poem and i'm not going to read them dr seuss or anything wonderful wonderful wonderful job i brought the actually the c d s because to show that the girls kids up more now are getting them on c d s to me and to listen and will read and parents always wonder about that and i say hey i think it's still you know you're still doing the book ok so that was that was last month that was incredible ok now as my daughter would always say don't don't judge me well you know how like you new look we're looking for books and  i wanted to bring this month's book except they're all out they're all out of like i'll read it and that and i want to mention because they're all out the nice thing is being a part of this groups we have access as you know to the books all in washington county and it's so easy to get them before you get ahead of myself and finish telling you everything let's take a break when we come back please don't judge me when i was bringing our library into your living room and a movie i loved off when i was talking about her girls book group ok now we went through everything i want to show you what we're reading this month and before we went to break i said don't bus all right well because our books are so popular and of course when you have the book or books it's hard to find it right here but i have extra copies we get them from the other libraries so i didn't have a genius by carol fenner and it's an award winner on her book it is wonderful i hope i don't know how the girls are feeling about it yet because we are going to discuss this on that we meet what the second monday of  month will be discussing this puta for beautifully written story with a girl isn't that grade her brother isn't good at communicating and actually does all this communicating through  harmonica and she believes he believes that he's a genius and needs she feels that she needs to get that express to other people so that they would understand him so that sounds like a good story a good book it's really not this thin there are a lot of pages in it so you know a lot of his genius is the one that we're going to be reading for next month i'll mention briefly another what's the main book because they're going to talk about that one and  well well this get we're talking about this one in april right this one we talked about i know but yeah this one will be doing when they come in two weeks then we start reading this want to talk about it in may called be holding be i want to talk too much about it because i'm well i just want to show that because i know we're talking the book groups but obviously there is more involved in our departments than just our book and choosing books for the kids the children to  have how many copies of frozen and we can even go out and borrow itself yeah exactly all right just a couple more i want to share with you of course baseball season everybody a new baseball book of course rosenstock and terry weidner it's called streak it's how joe dimaggio became america's hero and this is actually nonfiction writers who write and a lot of the kids do have to read a biography an autobiography so this of the definitely a good one for only the lower reader you know early and that's true that's true in a and it gives the facts in a way that they like to read it right they don't feel like all bored and and it is nice because at the very i was reading this in the very back there's all the statistics and stuff so yeah it's a written in japan right and then really written and translated for just the sheer it came out but what i like about it is very simple and it really put me in a good mood you know just really put me in a good mood about having a great day to get to the last one i'll mention one of my favorite authors because i love happy birthday moon frank asked came out with a new one i love which is april thirteenth or seventeenth which is when you basically celebrate how wonderful libraries are so we have some different performers coming in you have the pittsburgh felling going to be performing on april twelfth eleven thirty and again if you don't catch these we're going to run them at the or even email it to us our e mails have been on the screen and we will go ahead and put that into our contest and you can come visit the library and vote on your favor and they will have some prizes for for those people that are reading their books yes i have a question doesn't mention on the scene live but also going to do want to suffer national library week so we have something actually a teen room every single day of the week all year round not just for national every week we have gaming on mondays and crafts on tuesdays and ping pong on wednesdays and we have our dungeons and dragons group which means on sundays we were training hard call on fridays we're always on the team and true we also a lot of special programs like when hunger games just came out a couple weeks ago on d v d we've had a big home games party for that us some time but it was a lot of fun and then for national every week we're going to kind of expand upon that and so we have a program every single day to come to any of those you get a ticket and i'm going to have some baskets for teen teen items i'm giving away and you competition with prizes involved in that and we're going to have well it's also national poetry month and yes it is and we are going to have eighteen home a tree slam where you can either write poems or  will read poems things like that involving pets cory and then that week is also the easter holiday so we were close on the friday and sunday and so then that will kind of wrap it up and that will give away all prizes well fun you guys are so busy and i have to hand it to you that room looks gr about real quick john green is a most popular why author and we just heard that his book paper towns which we know fall in our stars is coming to theaters the summer paper towns is now going to be made into a movie style make sure you pick up that one as well