@ Your Library
One more week of summer programming. Join us Tuesday, July 28th at 3:30 pm for Nature Connect’s presentation of Water Bugs of Minnesota. This interactive program sponsored by the Arrowhead Library System is for ages 5 and up and will include live insects in water touch tanks.
Crafters’ Cafe will meet from 11 am – 1 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday morning at 11 am the last Libratory will learn through play. Storytime on Thursday morning at 10:30 am will explore growing and Big Play on Friday, July 31 from 10:30 – noon will have fun with water.
But summer reading, the activity of reading will continue through August. Continue completing reading activities on our reading log and turn in logs through the end of August for free books. Select a book for every 4 activities completed.
Picture books are wonderful to read regardless of your age. Reconnect with the classics from Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban, Curious George by H. A. Rey to the brand new Billie Builds a Robocorn by Jose Lourenco and James Braithwaite.
Adventure awaits around every corner of School for Thieves by Peter Burns. Tom Morgan lives a hardscrabble life on the streets of London protecting a group of kids who are carted off to the workhouse. Tom thinks he can rescue them when he is given a chance to attend the elite international boarding school for thieves. But time is running short for him to save his friends, himself and maybe the world.
Check out the new manga series “Moth Riders” by Jason Burns. This six book series begins with Luna Eclipse and is a great introduction to manga for elementary students.
Explore World War II through the eyes of twins Friedel and Gina Rosenthal, who were nine when the Nazis came into power in Germany. Friedel and Gina by Jeremy Dronfield shares their true story of growing up in Europe throughout the war and their experiences afterward as they try to reconnect with family and start life anew.
The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by Jennifer Brown attends a prestigious academic conference at which murder occurs. While An Ordinary Sort of Evil by Kelley Armstrong continues the Rip Through Time series in which a modern homicide detective finds herself a housemaid in Victorian Scotland solving murders. And Judge Stone by Viola Davis and James Patterson explores what it means to serve justice in a small southern town as Judge.
North of Ordinary by Sue Aikens explores what it means to survive. She left it all behind and moved herself 200 miles north of the Arctic circle to Alaska’s frozen frontier.
New cookbooks are always fun to explore and this summer Some Assembly Required by Julia Rutland provides some wonderful ‘fresh and easy no-cook recipes.’ I have really enjoyed the roasted red pepper hummus and many of the variations on salad with chicken ranging from Chicken noodle bowl with peanut coconut dressing to the Greek chicken rice bowl with tzatziki dressing and the Mediterranean white bean salad is delicious.