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For Kids
Storytime
Join Miss Val for Storytime on Tues. or Wed. at 10 am weekly for a themed children’s program! Storytime features stories, crafts, snacks, singing, and sometimes, special guests, all centered around seasonal themes or ideas from attendees. The program is free and open to all ages! Each event also features a play and coloring table, which families with energetic little ones or special needs children find especially helpful. Join us and see for yourself! Upcoming themes: Llamas, Music, Fish, Fall, and Halloween.
Miss Val is always seeking volunteers to help with programs and prep. Interested? Contact her at [email protected].
1,000 Books Before Kindergarten
Join our free early literacy program and steer your baby or preschooler toward academic success! Studies show that children who are read to from an early age develop better vocabulary, make more connections in their brains, and form the needed skills to read by themselves much quicker than their average peers who are not read to. Sign up by stopping in at the library for your first reading log, welcome letter, and other paperwork. Take a look at our awesome readers here.
For Families
Come to Cardboard & Recyclables Maker Monday!
October 21, 4 – 5 pm.
Create what you like using cardboard and recyclables, with our craft supplies to decorate and assemble it all. Enjoy snacks & water and work as a family at this free program. Kids 2nd grade and below must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
FIGHTERS for Teens & Tweens
Middle & High School Students, come on Wednesdays at 4:15 p.m. for a free program just for you! Help us shape the program for the upcoming months by suggesting new group names and joining in a vote on September 11. An ongoing reading challenge began last week and will run through the end of next May. Reading prizes and books will be awarded for every 500 pages of reading. FIGHTERS stands for Familiar Inviting Group Helping Those Entities Recover from School. The name was chosen and voted on by our members.
The October meetings will run as follows:
October 9, 4:15-5 pm: Mini Pumpkin Painting at the Library
October 16, 4-6 pm: Games & Snacks Night at the Library
October 23, 4:15-5 pm: The Lone Wolves Book Club at the Keyhole
October 30, 4-5 pm: Halloween Party at the Library
Need a ride from public school to FIGHTERS? Parents or guardians, call Joe Allen at 223-0800 to arrange bus transportation for your student.
New books–Adult Fiction
A better man
by Louise PennySearching for a missing woman amid a catastrophic flood and blistering social media attacks, a demoted Armand Gamache bonds with the victim’s distraught father, who contemplates a murder of his own. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Kingdom of the Blind.
Hart’s Hollow farm
by Janet DaileyWhen 73-year-old Emmy Hart asks her to help revitalize Hart’s Hollow farm, Kristen accepts, despite her fears about becoming too attached to the family; and then there’s Emmy’s ruggedly handsome grandson. By a New York Times best-selling author.
Killer instinct
by James PattersonA sequel to Murder Games finds the suspicious death of a professor reuniting Dr. Dylan Reinhart and Detective Elizabeth Needham against a terrorist plot targeting New York City. Co-written by a #1 best-selling author.
