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Video Games Now Available at Handley Library

Our video game collections has expanded to Handley Library!

Previously games were only physically available at Bowman Library, but the collection has expanded due to community interest. Popular Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Wii video games are included. You can also select games online to pick up from the library location of you choice in Berryville, Winchester, and Stephens City.

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Teens ready to write.

Camp WriMo

Welcome Middle and High School writers. Let's Camp-Out at the Library!

We celebrate July as Writing Month at Bowman Library by setting up camp, getting out the composition supplies and writing. It is a time to relax and write our best stuff yet. Short stories, novels, poems, comic strips are all welcome as we sit around camp and inspire one another.

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Frisbee Guy

The Frisbee Guy is Coming to Handley Library

Handley Regional Library System announces former freestyle Frisbee champion, Gary Auerbach, is coming for a special performance at Handley Library on June 10th at 2PM. The performance is ideal for kids and teens, and is free and open the public. The Frisbee Guy will amaze the audience with his tricks, stories, and other interactive surprises. The performance is part of the library system’s summer reading for kids, teens, and families, Valley Reads:  It’s Showtime at Your Library.

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Teen Music Jam

A Summer of Teen Music at Bowman Library!

The Handley Regional Library System is planning a fantastic summer reading program entitled, “It’s Showtime At Your Library” and the teens are getting into the action!

Because of the performance-oriented theme, members of our Teen Advisory Board will be hosting a Teen Music Jam for any interested young musicians in the area.

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Silly Willy

Calling All Teen Puppeteers!

PuppetsDo you ponder the perfect puppeteer performance? 

Are you a precocious pretend-people person possessing a particular preference for puppets?

Perchance, does puppeteering posit a potentially peculiar positive personality upon your person? 

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Teen Times front page

Teen Times of November/December 2018 is here!

The latest edition Teen Times, presented by the HRL Teen Advisory Boards, is now published and being distributed.

Edited by Elizabeth Taylor, the issue includes articles, events, photos and artwork submitted by Mirranda, Mary Costello, Ella Drury, Trey Mercer, Victoria Nielans, Ashley Pacheco-Arrospide and Natalie Snyder.

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