YOUNG  ADULT  DEPARTMENT


    Come check-out our newly organized Young Adult Section for 12-17 year-olds.  We're still ordering books - fiction and non-fiction.  Lots of useful tools for College prep.. reports and leisure reading!

 

Young Adult Circulation Information

Item Check-out period Fines Limit per Patron
Books 3 weeks 25¢/day none
CD's 2 weeks 25¢/day 2
DVD's 1 week $3.00/day 1
Videos 1 week $3.00/day 3
Audio books 2 weeks 25¢/day none

EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS:         

I. Library Resources

1. Power Library
                                           
2. Learn-A-Test                                              
            
3. Live Homework Help
               
4. Open Computer Room
              5. Downloadable books

II. Teen Workshops

    To be announced

 III. Peer Tutoring

  1. Group, or single sessions.
      (Sessions are one night a week for five weeks.  Parents, or guardians, need
      to call the Hoyt Library’s Children’s Program Facilitator, Mrs. Carol Dalmas, at
      (570)287-2013, ext., 226, for more information.

IV. Teen Programs

   1. Movie Night (To be announced)

   2. Teen Reading Book Forum

   3.  Teen Advisory Board  (Contact Carol Dalmas, Children's Facilitator for further information        (570)735-3248)

 * Additional Library Programs TBA
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HOMEWORK HELP

Free Tutoring

    Free tutoring Homework Help" for 4th to 10th grade students of the Wyoming Valley West School District in English, Math, Science, and Social Studies.  For more information contact: Carol Dalmas, Children's Facilitator at 287-2013  extension 226.

Tutors

    AP or Honor Students from Wyoming Valley West School District are needed to become volunteer tutors to 4th to 10th grade students in Science, Math, Social Studies, and English.  For more information contact, Carol Dalmas, Children's Facilitator at 287-2013 extension 226.

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LITERATURE FORUM BOOK CLUB

Ages 15 - 19


 

  

 

 

 

 

The Literature Forum Book Club is a club of people who read the same book, and then discuss it.  The club will meet on a Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. to approximately 8:00 p.m. at the Hoyt Library.
For more information contact Carol Dalmas at 287-2013 ext. 226 or cdalmas@osterhout.lib.pa.us


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---If you have a teen “WHATEVER” card you can now borrow PG and PG 13 material from the adult AV collection.  

---Watch for new discount sponsors when you use your WHATEVER card.

---Come check out the continually growing CD & DVD collection.

---As an alternative to music on a long trip, why not borrow one of our new books on CD or cassette?

             

                                 Come visit the TEEN BOOK NOOK.  It's a great place to meet a friend and relax  with a brand new selection of teen materials           

                                     

 

 

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