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Welcome to
Birmingham Young Libraries online
Tell us what you think of YOUR pages by emailing us at:
young.libraries@birmingham.gov.uk
Click on the pictures to find out what's
new in Birmingham Libraries!
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Back to School? - Homework Help is at hand
Find out where your nearest Homework Help session is, browse our A-Z
of useful Homework websites or check out our Hot Topics factsheets
on Global Warming and London 2012. For all this and more, visit the
Homework Help webpages.
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Dead men tell no tales...or do they ?
Did you join in with our day of pirate fun in Central Library? Young
people spent the day following clues around the library to solve the
mystery and find the treasure. On the way they got to find out about
real pirates from some of the old books in the library.
Have a look at the photographs from the day.
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Win family tickets for Finding Nemo! - Closing
date 13 September
We have a number of family tickets
to give away for a Disney on Ice show in November 2008 at the National
Indoor Arena. All you have to do is take out 8 children's books on any
one visit on your children's ticket and your name will be entered for
the prize draw. Find out more about our
Finding Nemo competition.
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Team Read - Reading Challenge - until 13
September
There is still some time left to Go for
Gold! Collect stickers each time you read a book to go with your 'moving
image' membership card and fold-out poster. Read you way through
bronze and silver levels to get
your gold medal! (you can read any
books you like ).
Team Read runs until 13 September.
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Are you a musician or a poet? Monthly Open Mic
sessions at Sutton Library
Your big opportunity!
Sutton Library is hosting monthly
Open Mic sessions (last Saturday of the month, 10.30am) for young acoustic
musicians and poets. Come along and perform in a welcoming and
encouraging atmosphere and be inspired by your fellow performers.
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Birmingham's Young Poet Laureate can be booked
to perform at your event!
Our current Young Laureate
is Matt Windle. Matt is a boxer and an athlete as well as a poet and
wants to get more young people interested in poetry. You can commission
Matt to write a poem to read at special events using our online booking
form.
Find out more about Matt and how to book. You can also read the
new poems Matt has written.
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Football in Birmingham Libraries! Join in the
fun
Check out our online footie fun with games and
activities, our Football Fever booklist, World Cup Quiz and facts and
figures on Euro 2008 - visit our
Football Activities online webpage now! Plus - find out about the
Premier League Reading Stars scheme and read about the children from Ward
End library who visited the Blues ground. You can see some photos of
them meeting footballer Martin Taylor and author Tom Palmer and even
read their
match reports!
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Reading the game...
Young
Libraries Recommends... The Penalty by Mal Peet. To celebrate the
National Year of Reading, we are featuring some of our favourite books
on the young libraries website. Our latest choice is a mystery story
about football, corruption, murder and the occult by a former Carnegie
winner. Find out about
The Penalty and how to reserve it for free online.
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Looking for new friends? Join a Teenage Reading
Group!
Are you aged 11-16? Would you like to meet some
new friends? Do you like reading magazines, books, graphic novels or
poetry? Then find out where
your nearest Teenage Reading Group meets. We also have reading groups for
older young people and for adults.
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Tell us which books YOU would like to read
Have we got your favourite books and magazines in your local library? If
not, why not suggest which books we should buy? Fill in our quick online
form at
Books 4 U and you could win a book token! Or join in our
online magazine survey.
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Online fun and games for pre-school children
Looking for something new to entertain your toddler? Why not check out our
selection of websites featuring favourite story book characters such as
Maisy Mouse, Thomas the Tank Engine and Spot. Play simple games or print
out colouring and activity sheets. You can even print your own party
invitations or send an e-birthday card to grandma! They're easy to use
and lots of fun.
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Listen to your favourite books on CD
All Birmingham Libraries now have even
bigger and better collections of stories on CD for you to borrow for
free! You can listen to loads of your favourites including
Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries, Philip
Pullman's Northern Lights, Eoin
Colfer's Artemis Fowl and of course
J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter.
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GCSE Survival Guide
For GCSE
students,
Central Library has all the help you need including free internet
access, space to study, revision guides and past exam papers. Our
Homework pages also give details of your nearest Homework Support sessions
across the city, A-Z of Homework websites, SmartPass Audio Guides and
more.
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Stop Bullying!
Our
Stop Bullying webpage contains a useful booklist full of stories about how
children and young people can deal with bullying. It includes pictures
books, novels for teenagers and non-fiction and there are also lots of
useful links to find help online. Plus; check out
Poems Against Bullying, written by a local school for National
Anti-Bullying week and previously displayed in Spring Hill Library.
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Carnegie and Greenaway 2008 children's book
awards announced!
These prestigious awards were
announced on 26 June 2008. The winner of the Carnegie award for an
outstanding children's book was Philip Reeve for Here Lies Arthur
and the Greenaway award for illustration was won by Emily Gravett for
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears.
Find out more or reserve the books online and collect them from a library
of your choice.
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The Liberty Box
The A
Shared History, A Shared Future project celebrated 200 years since
the abolition of the slave trade. Schools and community based groups
explored the ways in which slavery in all its forms throughout history
has operated, and how it relates to our lives in Birmingham. A new
resource resulting from the project The Liberty Box is now
available through Birmingham Libraries.
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World Book Day
March 6 was
World Book Day. Thousands of children throughout the country were given
book tokens through their school to spend on the new special World Book
Day titles and lots of libraries ran book-themed activities. You can
still join in the fun with some fantastic online games and activities on
the World Book Day website and Stories from the Web.
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Holocaust Memorial Day - New poem from our
Young Poet Laureate
Each year we remember the
holocaust on the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp
at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Birmingham Young Poet Laureate, Matt Windle, has
written a special poem
The Gravestone in commemoration. You can also read poems from
our two previous poets laureate,
Helen Monks and
Jennifer Brough. Our
Holocaust Memorial Day booklist for young people has lots more
information on the subject.
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Urban Art at Birmingham Central Library
A group of young people from St Basils designed and painted a stunning piece
of graphic art outside Central Library with the help of artist David
Brown. In September 2007, the grafitti style artwork was shortlisted for
the prestigious Love Libraries Award. Have a look at some
photographs of the artwork and find out more about the young people
involved.
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