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It's time to celebrate the end of the school year, the beginning of summer...and the soon-to-released Fault in Our Stars major motion picture!  Students at Menendez High School had a blast last Thursday at a special party in their media center hosted by none other than myself, Miss Alex, and our good friend Mrs. Neff, Menendez's media specialist.

Teens started off the festivities by decorating canvas bags with light blue, black, and white paint and wrapping tissue boxes in colorful duct tape (because of course we're all going to need to bring a box of tissues to the movie theater!).

Between arts and crafts and listening to the Fault in Our Stars soundtrack, the teens helped themselves to cupcakes, chips, fresh veggies, soda, and water.

To wrap things up, everyone got into pairs and played a game of Fault in Our Stars trivia, hosted by Miss Alex.  The winning pair each received a copy of the book.

And did I forget to mention movie tickets?  One lucky teen was the winner of our "stars" drawing and scored herself a pair of movie tickets to see the movie when it comes out next week.

We'll see you at the movie theater - with our boxes of tissues!

As many of our regular Coffeehouse attendees already know, one of the greatest things you can do in life is find your passion.  Whether it's writing, drawing, singing, playing football...or martial arts.

Thanks to Mr. Jim and Kearsten from All American Martial Arts for being our special guests this month!  Mr. Jim talked to us about discovering our passions and pursuing our dreams.

Then, we wrote letters to our "future" selves, outlining our goals for the next several months.  Miss Alex will mail them back to their original writers right before school starts, so everyone will start the new year with their goals fresh in their minds.

March Teen Coffeehouse was all about the art of Zentangle.  What is Zentangle?  According to Zentangle.com, it is a "fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns."  Check out some of the artwork we created:

If you'd like to do Zentangle, check out Zentangle Basics from the library.

We also talked about some ideas for summer programs for teens and made lists of our top three choices for books to read at a teen summer reading club.  Included on the list were The Fifth Wave, Legend, and The Lord of the Rings.

Our potential teen summer reading club would involve independently reading a young adult novel over the course of a month.  Each week the Southeast Library would offer a teen program that goes with the book.  At the end of the month we would hold a book party, which could include games, a movie, snacks, etc.

What do you think?  Would you join in if we started a Teen Summer Reading Club?  What books would make your Top Three list?

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