Are you a teenager entering grades 8-12? Do you know one? It’s time to apply to be a Summer Reading Buddy! This 6-week program takes place Monday evenings, at the Main Library – Children’s Department (July 7th – August 11th). Reading Buddies is a social program that promotes literacy through paired reading. […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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A news article from CNN Health indicates that knitting and other types of crafting can “help those who suffer from anxiety, depression or chronic pain… It may also ease stress, increase happiness and protect the brain from damage caused by aging”. Sound good? Find knitting books in the Catalog. You […]
Happy Mother’s Day! We hope it’s a fun and fantastic day with your family and that they did lots of great things for you! We have over 1,000 titles with mothers as a subject. They cover a huge range, from fiction to nonfiction, and all areas of motherhood. Poke around […]
In The Sparrow, it’s 2019, and “humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes […]
Mother’s Day is around the corner. Dads, do something nice for your life partner and make breakfast with your kid(s) that morning. She’ll love the effort, and the extra uninterrupted sleep time! (Maybe she’ll even reciprocate next month when it’s your turn.) We have lots of great children’s cookbooks, so […]
In My Father’s Dragon, “Elmer Elevator (narrator’s father as a boy) runs away with an old alley cat to rescue a flying baby dragon being exploited on a faraway island. With the help of two dozen pink lollipops, rubber bands, chewing gum, and a fine-toothed comb, Elmer disarms the fiercest of […]
It is time to apply for the Franklin Township Public Library’s 2014 Summer Reading Buddies Program. This 6-week program takes place Monday evenings, at the Main Library – Children’s Department (July 7th – August 11th). Reading Buddies is a social program that promotes literacy through paired reading. Teens earn volunteer […]
It’s the end of National Poetry Month. What did you read? Did you keep up with the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day website? Or did you check out Poetry 180 run by Billy Collins while he was the Poet Laureate? Or maybe you found a new poet or read some of your favorites. Did you […]
For whatever reason, boys (generally speaking) don’t read as much as their female counterparts. Happily, there are a growing number of resources dedicated to finding books for young(er) male readers, like Guys Read, Books 4 Boys, Best Books For Boys, Booksforboys.com, and Read Kiddo Read. Some of them break up […]
Barbara Kingsolver is an amazing writer, and the staff member who recommended her loves all of her work (except The Poisonwood Bible, but try that too). We recommend her work, especially Animal Dreams which is a stand alone novel about a woman returning home to confront her past and her distant […]