Congratulations to the Commack Public Library Middle Grades Battle of the Books Team, the Commack Super Six and the Sidekicks on finishing 15th overall out of 36 teams! On Saturday, August 14th, our team competed in the Suffolk County Battle of the Books at Stony Brook University, a competition that brings 36 teams from across Suffolk County, together in a trivia style competition focused on 8 young adult novels. The team met weekly throughout the summer for practice sessions and coached by Young Adult Librarian, Joanne Albano and Youth Services Librarian, Diane Doty as well as Stephanie Pennetti a member of the High School Battle of the Books team.
This years book titles were:
Peak by Roland Smith
Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark by Ridley Pearson
Schooled by Gordon Korman
Peeled by Joan Bauer
Rangers Apprentice by John Flanagan
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Click on the title to register for our programs! All you need is your Commack Public Library Card!

Pizza and PS3! ckya441
6th Grade – 12th Grade
Tuesday, August 10th
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
Limit: 20
Registration: Thursday, August 5th
Are you a fan of Pizza and PS3? Than come down to the Commack Public Library and join us for an evening of fun. We will have several different games set up for you to play, including Guitar Hero!

Movie and Popcorn Night! ckya442
The Last Song
Rated PG
Entering 6th Grade – Entering 12th Grade
Tuesday, August 17th
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Limit: 25
Registration: Monday, August 9th
Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica ‘Ronnie’ Miller’s life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love.

Cool Cooking for Cool Teens! ckya443
Entering 6th Grade – Entering 12th Grade
Thursday, August 26th
6:30 – 7:45 PM
Limit: 16
Registration: Monday, August 16th
Join Ms. Albano for an evening of cool cooking! We will be making some great treats all with no ovens or stoves!

Teens Volunteer! ckya431
6th Grade – 12th Grade
Tuesday, August 31st
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Limit: 25
Registration: Monday, August 16th
Do you need volunteer hours for school or other organizations? Join the NEW Teens Volunteer Group at the Commack Public Library! We will meet monthly year-round to work on various projects to help our community!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on a yellow submarine? Come into the library this summer and find out! Join the Deep Sea Divers Summer Reading Club for students entering grades 6 – 12! Read books and earn great prizes as well as raffle tickets for 10 GREAT baskets! Each time you read a book and report on it you will get a chance to enter into our basket raffle, at our end of the summer DJ Dance Party we will announce the winners! The baskets you can win are:
Chick Lit Books Basket
Guys Read Books Basket
Music Fun Basket
Gaming Fun Basket
Twilight Basket
Summer Fun Basket
All Around the Town Basket
Autographed Book Basket
DIY Craft Basket
Movie Fun Basket
Check out the pictures and than come in and see for yourself how much fun we are having at the library this summer!
Surfs Up!

Friends of the Library
Kid’s Day
Saturday, June 12th
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
at the
Commack Public Library
18 Hauppauge Rd., Commack
$10 per family

Please join us at the Commack Public Library on Saturday, June 12th for this great event that will feature entertainment and fun for children and their families. There will be face painting, temporary tattoos, balloon sculptures, animals from Pet Den, carnival games, a magician and lots more. Local merchants and volunteer organizations such as the Commack Fire Department and Suffolk County Police Department will also be in attendance sharing information and offering some fun activities for all who attend.

Posted by: Mrs. Pastore

Memorial Day is fast approaching and bringing summer with it. As always, we librarians at the Commack Public Library are busy getting ready for another fun Summer Reading Club. What is a summer without excellent books, fabulous prizes and fun? We don’t want to know, and promise that you will never find out!

Here is the information on your 2010 Summer Reading Club:

Deep Sea Divers Summer Reading Club
June 28th – August 15th
Entering 6th Grade and Up
Spend the summer underwater on a yellow submarine at the Commack Public Library! Just bring 1 book that you have COMPLETED in the month of June to join our Summer Reading Club. You may report on a maximum of 2 books per day. For each book you report on, you will receive a prize or a raffle ticket to enter into a drawing for one of 10 Fanatic Baskets. Finnish 7 books in 7 weeks and you will be invited to our end of summer Friday Night DJ Dance Party here at the library!

We hope to see you starting on June 28th. Happy reading!

Posted by Ms. Doty

Friends of the Library
Yard Sale & Bike Consignment
April 24th, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

The Friends of the Commack Public Library will be having a spring yard sale and bike consignment on Saturday, April 24th. Please look around your house or ask your friends for at least one item to donate. In addition, come by and see what treasure you could pick up.

Click here for more information.

Important Date

Budget Vote and Trustee Election
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Commack Public Library
at a Glance – 2009

• 40 years of service to our Commack Public Library patrons
• Serving over 15,000 patrons
• 189,784 visits to the Library
• 286,898 materials were checked out
• 14,079 items were borrowed from other libraries for our patrons
• 756 program sessions offered to adults
• 384 program sessions offered to children and their families
• 52 program sessions offered to young adults
• 563 youth participated in the summer reading club with 15,221 books read
• 69 hours a week the Library is open
• 24 hours a day, 7 days a week patrons have access to the CPL homepage, e-Resources and a variety of other online products
• 5(and more to come in 2010) Museum Passes that provide free access to local museums

Posted by D. Meyer

Come join us for these exciting programs! Registering is now easier than ever! Just click on the the CODE right underneath the program title, to be taken right to the registration page! See you at one of these great programs!

Pizza and PS3!
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6th Grade – 12th Grade
Tuesday, April 13th
5:00 PM – 6:15 PM
Limit: 20
Registration: Monday, April 5th
Are you a fan of Pizza and PS3? Then come down to the Commack Public Library and join us for an evening of fun. We will have several different games set up for you to play, including Guitar Hero!

Celebrate Earth Day:
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Going Green Ideas and Disneynature Earth: The movie
Rated G
6th Grade – 12th Grade
Thursday, April 22nd
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Limit: 25
Registration: Thursday, April 8th
Come celebrate Earth Day at the library. Hear some great tips on going green, taste some organic food and receive a special “green” gift just for coming! After we will watch Disneynature Earth which celebrates the story of three animal families on a journey across our planet.

Author Visit with Suzanne Litrel
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6th Grade – 12th Grade
Thursday, April 29th
6:00 PM
Limit: 50
Registration: Monday, April 12th
Commack’s very own Suzanne Litrel has written two fantastic books (with more on the way), Jackie Tempo and the Emperor’s Seal and Jackie Tempo and the Ghost of Zumbi. Ms. Litrel is an award-winning world history and economics educator. In the classroom and through her writing, Ms. Litrel brings global history to life through her extensive research and personal experiences. Come meet Ms. Litrel and hear her speak about her series how she started writing about Jackie Tempo.

By now, I think you all know my love for Young Adult literature. So it’s only fitting that I was able to meet some GREAT YA Authors over the past month! Can you guess who they are? Click on the picture to find out who it is and to visit their website! Also, check out one of their books here at CPL by clicking on the link underneath the picture!

For books by this FABULOUS teen author click here!

Check out some of this authors humerous novels here!

Take a look at some of this illustrators beautiful artwork by checking out a book today! Click here!

Try reading this author’s award winning books! Click here to find out more!

She is truly a YA Rockstar (and she plays in a band!)! Check her books out here!

and last but certainly not least…..

One of my FAVORITE YA authors ever! Read his books today!

Who out there loves that Black Eyed Peas song “I Gotta Feeling”? I do! Well if you love that song than this is a MUST watch video! Kudos to the school in Florida that came up with this idea! Do you think we can do something like this here in Commack? Who’s in!!