Transform your Friday from bored to board. Drop in the Bethel Branch today from 2:00-4:00p.m. to play Scrabble and a variety of board games with your friends or other library customers. Free and open to the public.
Zombie yourself and you have the chance to win signed copies of Carrie Ryan’s books. You’ve got until May 6 so get busy shambling! Full details.
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Enter the YALSA Steampunk Apparatus Contest – you could win $50 Amazon gift card!
Come up with a device or instrument and give it a name and a description of what it looks like.
On March 7, Tweet your invention and description. Make sure to include the hashtag #yalsapunk and @figmentfiction
For example – @figmentfiction Blimflocket – a wristwatch w/a chain that goes up the arm & links to a person’s neck.#yalsapunk
Remember you’ve got 140 characters total so be creative but succinct.
A winning device will be chosen based on creativity, and the “inventor” will receive a $50 Amazon gift card.
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If you haven’t gotten enough of the white stuff outside, grow your own snow indoors. Check out this Science Friday video that explains how. Dry ice required.
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According to an article in Wired Science, life on Earth could have started from alien zombies. But probably not. Still. Interesting idea.
Congratulations to Jessie who won our Perfect Playlist Contest!
Thanks to everyone who participated 
Congratulations to Jessica, our winner of the Teen Read Week Books with Beat Poetry Contest! Read all of the great poems that were submitted.
Thanks to everyone who participated by writing or by voting!
We’d like your help deciding what prizes to give away during our summer reading program. So take the poll and let us know what you’d like to get. Want something that’s not listed? Tell us in the comments. Thanks!