Friday, September 25, 2009

Youth Holiday Program

Week 1
Guitar Hero Challenge
Tuesday 6 October 2009
4:00 - 6:00pm

Come down to the library and show off your Guitar Hero skills – no bookings required

Dubbo City Youth Council Youth Cafe
Friday 9 October 2009

4.00-6.00pm
Youth Cafe is a place where young people aged 12-18 can go to ‘hang out’. Youth Cafe is a safe, drug and alcohol free place to go to enjoy meeting with friends, playing PlayStation3 games and listening to music. Food and drinks are be available. The Youth Cafe is supported by the Macquarie Regional Library and Dubbo City Council.

Week 2
Twitter and Treats
Thursday 15 October 2009
2:00 - 4:00pm

Cost: $2
Join us for Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and You Tube. You've heard about these technologies, now find out what they are and how they work. Choc treats provided. Bookings required.

Dubbo City Youth Council Youth Cafe
Friday 16 October 2009
4:00 - 6:00pm

Friday, September 18, 2009

The Devil's Paintbox by Victoria McKernan


When orphans Aiden and Maddy Lynch first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson in the spring of 1865, they’re struggling to survive on their family’s drought-ravaged Kansas farm. So when Jackson offers an escape—a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world—Aiden knows it’s their only choice.They say there are a hundred ways to die on the Oregon Trail, and the long wagon journey is broken only by catastrophe: wolf attacks, rattlesnakes, deadly river crossings, Indians, and the looming threat of smallpox, “the devil’s paint.” Through it all, Aiden and Maddy and a hundred fellow travelers move forward with a growing hope, and the promise of a new life in the Washington Territory. But one question haunts them: who will survive the journey?