Wednesday, October 28, 2015

2016 Middle/ Junior Reading Olympics Booklist

Good luck readers!  If you're in the Middle/ Junior Reading Olympics, this list is for you!

(J) = in the Juvenile collection;  (D) = on Display in the Children's Room;  (YA) = in the Young Adult Collection

Almost Home by Joan Bauer  (J)

Angel Experiment, The by James Patterson  (YA)

Beauty by Robin McKinley (D)

Bomb The Race to Build -and Steal- The World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin (D) 623.4S

Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator (D)

Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis (D)

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (J,D) 811.54W

Bull Run by Paul Fleischman (D)

Catch You Later, Traitor by Avi (J)

Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson (J) 973.7S

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (J) Biography COLVIN

Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn (D)

Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney (D)

Courage Has No Color: the True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone (D) 940.54S

Crossing, The: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution by Jim Murphy (D) 973.3M

Crossover, The by Kwame Alexander (D)

Double Identity by Margaret petersen Haddix (D)

Eragon by Christopher Paolini (YA)

Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock (D)

Fairy Tale Detectives, The by Michael Buckley (J-SERIES)

Fish in a Tree: A Novel by Lynda Mullaly Hunt (D)

Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen  (D) 

Giver by Lois Lowry (J, D,YA)

Great Wide Sea, The by Madaline Herlong (D) 

Hero by Mike Lupica (J)

Holes by Louis Sachar (D)

Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate (J, D)

Honest Truth, The by  Dan Gemeinhart (D)

I am Malala (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai (J 370.82Y, D)

Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore by Joan Lowery Nixon (YA)

Masterpiece by Elise Broach  (D)

Night Gardener, The by Jonathan Auxier (YA)

On the Blue Comet by Rosemary Wells  (J) coming soon!

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (D)

Popularity Papers, The: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang by Any Ignatow (D) 

Stanford wong Flunks Big Time by Lisa Yee (D)

Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren (D) 

SYLO by D. J. MacHale (YA)

Thickety, The. A Path Begins by J. A. White (D)

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (D)

Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor (YA)

Wild Things by Clay Carmichael (D) 

Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen (D)

Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien (D) 

Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina by Philbrick Rodman (D)



Tuesday, October 6, 2015

We're loaded with activities for fall!

Storytime, Books for Bedtime, Junior Friends, Let's Color, Teddy Bear Storytime, Hora de Cuentos... the list goes on and on! 

There's something for everyone this fall in the Youth Services Department! 

Check out our current flyer to see all the programs we're offering! Call the Youth Services Department for more information, or to sign up for any of our awesome programs! 610-258-2917 ext. 306

We can't wait to see you at the library!