The Benning Branch of the D.C. Public Library was erected at 3935 Benning Road N.E. as the sixth in a series of branch libraries funded under the D.C. Public Works Program. The building was designed by architect Clark T. Harmon in cooperation with the...Read more
Do you want to laugh? Of course you want to laugh.
If you read the poems in Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic, you just might laugh out loud.
The book club that meets the first Thursday of each month will be discussing A Light in the Attic on Thursday, April 1, at 4 p.m. We will have a book-related activity and snacks.
The program is for children ages 8 - 12, but all are welcome.
April is National Poetry Month.
Every first Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m., Northeast Library has a Music and Movement program for ages 1 month to 5 years. Do you know that joyful singing and rhythmic rhyming is part of “Phonological Awareness,” which is the ability to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words? Do you know that music along with movement help with motor skills, coordination, following directions and social skills? All of this free at your neighborhood branch!
If you’re looking for a book that covers black history, biography and drama, then look no further than Day of Tears by the renowned author Julius Lester. If you want to know more, read the review below:
Day of Tears is a novel told in dialogue. It is based on the largest U.S. slave auction in history. Pierce Butler is a Southern plantation owner with many slaves, and also a lot of gambling debts. To settle the debts, he sells off almost all his slaves in a huge three-day auction. This auction wrenches families apart and destroys the fabric of life on his plantation, especially when he sells Emma, the slave who takes care of his children, despite promising her parents (whom he grew up with) that he never would. Nature itself seems to show its sorrow: during the entire three-day auction, it rains nonstop.
In addition to the scenes that make up the bulk of the novel, readers gain further information about the characters after each dramatic moment. Lester provides perspectives from all of the major characters of these events, both black and white, giving a comprehensive picture of a difficult time in America’s history. The research that Lester did to fictionalize this historical event is mentioned in the back of the book, with sources provided, making this novel a great book to use for studying slavery.
Day of Tears is recommended for late tween and early teen readers. Check out this breathtaking book at Northeast and other branches of the DC Public Library.
Come to the Northeast Branch Library Children's Room, March 4, 2010, at 4 p.m. We will talk about The New Policeman by Kate Thompson. This book has won three awards: The Guardian Children's Book Prize, the Whitbread Children's Book Award, and the Dublin Airport Authority Children's Book of the Year Award for 2005.
Yes, this book is all Irish -- a great read for Irish-American Heritage Month (March). Don't let the title put you off. Things are not always what they seem. Spend some time with the fantasy in J.J. Liddy's world.
On the book club date, there will be snacks and a book-related activity. Although this is intended for ages 8 to 12, all are welcome.
Come one, come all and join the Tween Club, ages 8-12, in the Children’s Room at Northeast Branch Library! The club meets the first Saturday of every month at 4 p.m., starting in February. If you have questions, please contact Ms. Carroll Johnson at 202-698-3299.
Below is a listing of the activities taking place during each meeting of the Tween Club:
February 6
Bring: Your latest, favorite book
Prepare: A review
Together: We will hear your review of the book.
March 6
Read: The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan
Investigate: The movie version
Together: We will discuss the differences between book and movie version.
April 3
Read: Bronzeville Boys and Girls, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Bring: Your favorite poem
Together: We will create collages with your poems and discuss the book.
May 1
Read: The newspaper
Bring: An article of your choice
Together: We will discuss the contents of your article, and create a log book.
June 5
Read: Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money, by Christopher Paul Curtis
Bring: Foreign currency (We will have currency, if you do not.)
Together: We will make a dècoupage keepsake box.
You are invited to join the Northeast Book Club. The club is a literature program involving readers all enjoying
the same book and discussing it as a group.
Some of the desired goals are an appreciation of fine literature, the
development of broadened areas of reading interest, and an improvement
of reading skills through sharing ideas with others in the group. The
group will meet at the Northeast Library in the Children’s Division meeting room from 7 to 8 p.m. on the third Monday of every month.
Snacks will be provided at each meeting. Please be on time so that all
the planned activities can be covered within the one-hour session. It
is our intent that this experience will be an enjoyable one for each
participant with the opportunity to make new friends who love to read.
If at any time you have questions or comments, please do not hesitate
to contact the library at 202-698-3298.
What is all the fuss about with this new movie The Lightning Thief that's coming out on February 12? If you want to know more about the book it's based on, please read on:
Percy Jackson is dyslexic, has ADHD, and enough behavioral problems that he has been kicked out of six schools in six years. His last removal was particularly interesting; he transformed his pre-algebra teacher to dust when she turned into a monster and tried to kill him.
But he’s the only one who remembers it, and he soon finds out why: he isn’t totally human, but a half-blood, son of the Sea God Poseidon. In this novel, the Greek Gods do still exist and cause all kinds of mischief in the world. Their half-blood children are sent to a summer camp on Long Island called Camp Half-Blood where they learn to fight the monsters that plague them in the real world.
Percy’s parentage also brings him a lot of trouble, as a war is brewing between Poseidon and Zeus, because Zeus thinks Poseidon used Percy to steal his master lightning bolt. Percy must travel across the country with his friends Annabeth (daughter of Athena) and Grover (a satyr) in order to clear his name, find the real thief, and discover why they want a war between the gods.
The Lightning Thief and other books in the Percy Jackson and The Olympians series by Rick Riordan are excellent books for tween and young teen readers. Check them out at Northeast Branch Library or any of the other DC Public Libraries today!
If you are a really big fan of the The Lightning Thief, please come to Northeast Library Tween Club on Saturday, March 6th, run by Ms. Carroll Johnson. The club will be discussing differences between the book and movie versions of this story.
Have you joined a book club at your local library yet?
Come to the Northeast Branch Library Children's Room, February 4, 2010, at 4 p.m. We will talk about Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet. This book won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. It is a great Black History Month read. Copies of the book are waiting at the library for you to check out. On the book club date, there will be snacks and a book-related activity. Although this is intended for ages 8 - 12, all are welcome.
Acquire information literacy skills with our free computer classes at the Northeast Public Library. We offer a wide range of hands-on technology training at our branch library.The library offers classes on various computer topics and each one is a 70-minute, one-time class. Class sizes are small, with a maximum of nine students per class. And they are free!
Classes are designed for people with little to no experience using a computer. Classes include Computer Basics, Internet Basics, Microsoft Word and Job Search Methods.
Register for a Class
You can sign up for a class at the Northeast Neighborhood Library. Registration instructions for classes can be found at the Information Desk.
Contact Us
For more information about computer classes, call 202-698-3320.
Do you like to draw and paint? Or write stories and poetry? Do you want to show your work to the world, but you're not sure how to get it out to the public? Then enter the Creative Expressions Contest at Northeast Library!
In this contest, anyone ages 10 to 19 can submit a creative work, whether it's a written work, a picture, or some other form of media, between now and January 16. Just bring your work and a index card with your name, address and contact information (phone or e-mail) to the library, and you are in the contest. Please do not put your name on your work, because we will not be able to enter it into the contest for judging.
Your work will be displayed in the library until the end of the month, at which time you may come back to retrieve your work.
Everyone who enters this contest receives a prize for participating when they submit their work, and we will have a grand prize, first runner-up prize and second runner-up prize as well.
We are hoping that we can do this contest each month, but we need you to enter the contest, or we won't be able to keep it going. So get those creative juices flowing, and submit your work by Saturday, January 16.
Please call the library at 202-698-3320 if you have any questions about the contest.
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