December Vacation Activities

We have some fun things planned for the upcoming December school break.  Check them out:

Fri. Dec. 27th:  10:00 - Movie Morning - "Despicable Me 2"
Gru, his adorable girls, and their mischievous Minions are back with a cast of unforgettable new characters in the newest chapter in their story.  Bring a snack and a drink and enjoy a fun movie morning.

Mon. Dec. 30th  2:00pm - Lego Afternoon
     For kids ages 6 and up.  Join us for an hour of building fun.  We'll provide the Logos, you provide the creativity.  *Registration is required for this program.

Thurs. Jan. 2nd - 1:00pm  Family Story Time
     For kids 3 to 6.  Join us for some winter stories and a simple craft.  *Registration is required for this program.

Fri. Jan. 3rd 10:30-3:30 - Babysitter's Training Class
     For ages 11-16.  Cost is $45.00 payable in cash the day of the class.  *Registration is required for this class.

Halloween Family Story Time

We will be holding a Halloween Family Story Time on Wed. Oct. 30^th at 7:00pm. 

Children ages 3 and up and their families are invited to a program of stories, songs and spooky fun.  Participants are encouraged to come in costume.  Refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the library.   

No registration is required for this program.

It's Teen Read Week

Let your voice be heard!  Vote for this year's Teen Top Ten.

Voting will be held through Oct. 19th.

Here are the nominees:

And here is where to vote.

Be sure to check back for the list of winners!

It's Summer Wrap-up Time

Attention all Summer Reading Club Members,

The books are all logged in, the flowers are down from the wall and the certificates and final prizes are ready for pick up.  

It was a really fun summer, we had a lot of great programs, a lot of fun times and you all did a lot of great reading.  I'm a little late in getting this altogether, so I've extended the time you have to come in to get your certificates and final prize.  You now have until Sept. 7th.

Keep watching for a final "slide show" of the pictures that we took throughout the summer.  I'll let you know when it's ready and posted on the Summer Reading Page.

Again, thanks for a fun summer and have a great school year!  

Mrs. Madden

It's hard to believe that a week from today the kids will be back in school!  Where did the summer go?  We had another great one here at the library and hope you did too.  If the new school year is here that means that the fall session of Story Times at the library is right around the corner too.

Registration for the Preschool Story Times for children ages 3 to 5 will begin on Mon. Sept. 9th. Classes will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings from 10:15 - 10:45 and afternoons from 1:00 - 1:30.  The classes begin on Sept. 24th and run for ten weeks.

Mother Goose Time for babies 0-18 months will be held on Monday mornings at 10:30am and begins on Sept. 23rd.  These are drop-in sessions, no registration is required.

Toddler Time for little ones 18-36 months will be held on Thursday and Friday mornings from 10:30 to 10:50am.  These sessions begin on Oct. 3rd.  These are also drop-in sessions, no registration is required.

SYNC Week #11

It's the next to last week of SYNC's summer audiobook free downloads.  We hope you've enjoyed them.

This week the choices are enchanting...

Enchanted by Althea Kontis


In a charming, humorous tumble of fairy tales blended into one novel, Sunday Woodcutter kisses an enchanted frog which then transforms back into the crown prince of Arilland–a man Sunday’s family despises.

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 

In this sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Alice journeys through a mirror to a strange and wonderful world where curious adventures await her.

SYNC Week #9

This week's selections are tales of secret identities, one new, one classic.  Enjoy!


 
The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen

In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king’s long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

The classic story of a poor London boy and a rich young prince, who share an uncanny resemblance and get an opportunity to appreciate each other’s life firsthand when they swap identities.




Remember–grab these titles before they are replaced by a new pairing on August 1st!  While the title availability is time-limited, your listening time is not.  Once you have downloaded the MP3 files, the audiobook is yours to listen to at your leisure.

SYNC Week #8

Another week, two more great audiobooks available for downloading.

This week's selections are:

 Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

 Shakespeare’s classic play about an indecisive Danish prince urged on to revenge against his uncle by his murdered father.





Get them here.

SYNC Week #7

We've passed the halfway point for the SYNC series of downloadable books.  How many have you heard so far?

This week, SYNC offers two peculiar tales of boys set upon by the class (and species) wars of England in another time and another reality…

The Peculiar by Stephan Bachman 


Reviled by both his human mother’s and his faery father’s cultures, changeling Bartholomew Kettle endures a life of isolation and fear before witnessing a kidnapping that enmeshes him in a sinister faery’s web of intrigue and danger.

 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens



Orphaned at birth and abandoned to the hardships of the workhouse, Oliver Twist lives a grueling life of poverty. Desperate to escape his heartless tormenters, he runs away to London but, once there, he falls in with a gang of thieves.




These titles are available for downloading free from July 11 – July 17.  Get them here.

SYNC Week #6

There's still time to download the two offerings for week #6.  They are Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith.

Awkward freshman Will Carter endures many painful moments during his first year of high school before realizing that nothing good comes easily, focus is everything, and the payoff is usually incredible.





 

Goldsmith’s eighteenth-century comedy concerns a young lady who poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class.






These titles will be available through Wed. July 10th.  Get them here.

Happy Listening!

SYNC Week #5

Mary Shelly's classic Frankenstein is one of this week's free offerings and the 2012 Odyssey Award Winner Rotters by Daniel Kraus is the other.

These offerings are not for the faint of heart, but great reads!  Enjoy.

Victor Frankenstein learns the secret of producing life, and so, 
by putting together parts of various corpses, he creates the Frankenstein monster. The monster is huge and disformed, 
but no harm to anyone–until constant ill treatment drives him to murder and revenge.

Grave robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? Sixteen-year-old Joey’s life takes a very strange turn when his mother’s tragic death forces him to move in with the father he has never known, a strange, solitary man with unimaginable secrets.




Get these two titles here:  http://www.audiobooksync.com/

Week #1 of the Summer Reading Program begins on Monday!

Well, it's finally here, summer, and that means that it's time to "Dig Into" some summer fun!

Registration for the summer reading clubs has begun.  If you haven't registered yet, click on the link on the right and sign up.  After you've signed up make sure to come into the library, pick up your reading bag, get a flower to put on the Children's Room wall and register for the weekly prize drawing.

This week's activity days are filled up but the sign-ups for next week's programs will be posted on Monday.  Come on in and register for one or two.

We do have some programs that don't require any pre-registration happening this week.  Monday morning at 10:30 is our first Baby Break of the summer.  Little ones, ages 0-18 months and their caregivers are invited to come in for a program of songs, finger plays & rhymes followed by open play time.

On Wednesday, June 28th at 3:00pm, the Genesee Storytellers will be joining us with a program of folktales just right for the K-2 crowd.

On Thursday at 10:30am our "older" little ones, ages 18-36 months and their caregivers are invited to Toddler Time.

Finally on Friday at 10:00am we'll be showing the first of our TGI Friday Movies.  This week's movie is The Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Hope we see you here!

SYNC Week #4

It's SYNC week #4.  This week's titles are reading for downloading.  They are:

Once by Morris Gleitzman 

After living in a Catholic orphanage, Felix, a naïve Jewish boy, runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents. To Felix, everything is a story, but as Felix’s journey gets increasingly dangerous, he begins to see horrors that not even stories can explain.
Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2006 Audie Award Finalist

Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King.

The year is 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr., sits in a jail cell and pens his defense of non-violence against segregation in the margins of a newspaper. That letter includes the line that will live throughout our history, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.


Remember — grab these titles before they are replaced by a new pairing on June 27! While the title availability is time-limited, your listening time is not. Once you have downloaded the MP3 files, the audiobooks are yours to listen to at your leisure.

Home Alone Safety Class Tonight

We still have openings in tonight's "Home Alone Safety" class presented by EPIC Trainings. The class is for kids ages 7-14 and will be held from 6-8pm. The cost is $20, payable in cash at the time of the class.

Children will learn the importance of proper behavior when home alone; what to do when a stranger comes to the door, telephone tips, how to react in a variety of accidents, etc.

To register call the library at 924-2637.

Due to lack of registration, the class scheduled for this coming Sat. has been cancelled.

It's SYNC Week #3

This week's two new, free audiobooks are ready for downloading. They are "The Raven Brothers" by Maggie Stiefvater and "Bless Me Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya.

Click on the link below to get them.

http://www.audiobooksync.com/2013/06/13/sync-is-hearing-voices-in-week-3/

 

 

OWWL2go Collection Now Includes Disney Online Books

We are excited to announce that the Owwl2go collection now includes Disney Online Books!  

Currently there are 661 interactive titles that feature both classic and new Disney characters. This collection supports simultaneous use so there is never need to wait or place a hold. You can access the books through OWWL2go, just type in "Disney online book".

Instead of being downloaded they are viewed on your computer. They are available for both PCs and Macs, just make sure Adobe Flash is installed. Due to the fact that these titles required Adobe Flash, they are not compatible with most portable devices.

It's SYNC week #2!

The two new, free audiobooks are ready for downloading. This week's titles are "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood and "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte.

Click on the link below to get them. 

  
 http://www.audiobooksync.com/2013/06/06/sync-howls-into-week-two/

Dig Into Reading This Summer!

 

The schedule of activities happening here this summer is ready.  Click on the link below to go to the Activity Days page to see what we have planned!

Activity Days

We have a lot of fun activities planned for the upcoming Spring Break week.

On Monday, Apr. 1st at 10:30am we will be having Mother Goose Time for little ones 0-36 months and their parents or caregivers.  Older siblings are invited to come along.

On Tuesday, Apr. 2nd at 2:00pm we'll be playing some old favorite and trying out some new board games at our Games Afternoon.  This program is for kids ages 5 and up, will last about an hour and no registration is required.

On Wednesday, Apr. 3rd at 2:00pm we will be holding a “Lego Afternoon” for kids ages 6 and up.  The library will provide the legos, you provide the creativity.  Registration is required for this program.

A Family Story Time for kids ages 3 and up will be held on Thursday, Apr. 4th at 11:00am.  Come join Mrs. Durham for a fun program of Bear tales.  No registration is required for this program.

 

Finally on Fri. Apr. 5th at 10:00am we'll be showing the movie Wreck-It Ralph.  Ralph,
a video game villain, wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives. 

 

For more information on any of these activities call the library at 924-2637.

February Break Activities Planned

Looking for something to do over the February break?  We have something planned for everyone!

Mon. Feb. 18th - 10:30am-3:30pm - Babysitting Training Class
     For ages 11 & above.  Presented by EPIC Trainings, this course teaches the roles and responsibilities of a babysitter including care for infants, safe play and activities, keeping children safe and handling first aid emergencies.  The cost of this program is $45.  Participants should bring a bagged lunch and a self-address, stamped envelope.  Registration is required for this program and space is limited.

Tues. Feb. 19th - 10:00am - Movie Morning
     For all ages.  Come take a trip to Transylvania's new lavish "five-stake" resort where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed.  See what happens one special weekend when Dracula invites all his friends to celebrate his beloved daughter's 118th birthday.  Kids are invited to bring along a snack.  No registration is required.

Wed. Feb. 20th - 2:00pm - Lego Afternoon
     For ages 6 & up.  Come on in for some Lego fun.  See how creative you can be.  We'll provide the Legos, you provide the imagination.  Registration is required for this program.

Thurs. Feb. 21st - 10:30am - Family Story Time
     For ages 3 to 6.  Join the staff of the Fisher's Run KinderCare for a few stories, a craft and a snack.  Registration is required for this program.

Fri. Feb. 22nd. - All Day - Paws for Reading
     For kids in Kindergarten & up.  Our furry reading buddies will be stopping by to share some reading time with us.  They will be here throughout the day, so visit the library to register for a time slot.

American Library Association's 2013 Children & Teen Award Winnersn

The ALA announced the top books, videos and audiobooks of 2012 for children and young adults at its Midwinter Meeting yesterday, Jan. 28th.

The winner of the 2013 John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution for children's literature is The One and Only Ivan written by Katherine Applegate.  Three Honor Books were also named: Splendor and Glooms written by Laura Amy Schlitz; Bomb written by Steve Sheinkin; and Three Times Lucky written by Sheila Turnage.

The winner of the 2013 Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children is This is Not My Hat, written and illustrated by Jon Klassen.  Five Honor Books were also named: Creepy Carrots, written by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Peter Brown; Extra Yarn, written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klaasen; Green, written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger; One Cool Friend, written by Toni Buzzeo, illustrated by David Small; and Sleep Like a Tiger, written by Mary Logue and illustrated by Pamlea Zagarenski.

The winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults is In Darkness written by Nick Lake.  Four Honor Books also were named: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe written by Benjamin Alire Sáenz; Code Name Verity written by Elizabeth Wein;  Dodger written by Terry Pratchett; and The White Bicycle written by Beverley Brenna.

A complete list of the awards given can be found here.

Winter/Spring Story Time Schedule

We've gotten a few calls already this "new" year concerning the next sessions of Story Times, so here's what we've got planned.

Mother Goose Time for babies 0-18 months will be held on Monday mornings from 10:30 - 10:50, followed by open play time.  These sessions will begin on Feb.11th.  They are drop-in sessions, so no registration is required.

Toddler Time for children ages 18-36 months will be held from 10:30 - 10:50 on Thursday and Friday mornings.  These sessions begin on Feb. 28th.  These too are drop in sessions, no registration is required.

Preschool Story Time for children ages 3 to 5 will be held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10:15-10:45 and 1:00-1:30.  These classes will begin on Feb. 12th.  Registration is required for these sessions and begins on Jan. 21st.