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Summer Reading

Things continue to be crazy, busy here in the Youth Services Department. Children are in every day we are open to have their Reading Logs stamped, then putting a sticker with their name on it for the Wall of Fame. As August approaches -- faster than we like -- our reading program is almost over. We have no requirement to complete a certain quantity of pages, minutes or number of books in order to finish. Just turn in that Reading Log and you are done! Remember, only those who have turned in their Reading Logs by August 9 can attend our End of Summer Ice Cream Party to be held on Wednesday, August 13.

Don't miss out on a very fun event...and reward yourself for a job well done!

Get a Clue Science!

On Wednesday, July 9, Marilyn Taylor and Mrs. C led a group of children in a science project.

First, we read the book, Mirette On the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully.

Because the book is about a young girl, Mirette, and how she learns to walk on a tightrope, we talked about how important ears are for balance. To tie in science, we made a battery using pennies, salt water, paper towels, and aluminum foil and tested it by scraping the wire along a headphone plug. If they could hear the static, their battery worked!

Steps in making the battery.
Supplies needed: copper wire, pennies, paper towels, salt water, and aluminum foil.

Step one: Make a sandwich of penny, paper towel soaked in salt water in the middle, and then a small piece of aluminum foil.
Step two: Attach one copper wire to the penny and wrap the other end around the plug of a pair of headphones.
Step three: Take the other wire and have one end touching the foil and with the other end, rub it on the headphone plug.

Can you hear static? If so, your battery works!

If you need a visual, go here. Keep in mind this is a project meant for a classroom. You do not need to use that many pennies.

This Wednesday, July 16, at 3:30 pm Annegret Baier will host a workshop on African Drumming. Pre-registration is required. Call 883-4723 opt. 3 to sign up!

Garden to Table by Katherine Hengel

What did you plant in your garden this year? Peas? Tomatoes? Carrots? Basil? Having such a bounty of fresh vegetables at your fingertips makes preparing supper fun.

In Garden to Table: a kid's guide to planting, growing, and preparing food author Katherine Hengel offers helpful tips for how to grow certain veggies and then includes some yummy recipes. For example, got lettuce or baby spinach? Try the 'Rock-On Raisin Salad. It's guaranteed to please! Or how about Sassy Citrus Zest Green Beans. Hengel claims that "this startling bean dish is almost a dessert!"

We have other books with recipes suggestions to help you find a yummy way to eat what you grow. Stop in and we will help you find a few.

Happy eating!

Maker Day

Coming up for all ages on Wednesday, June 25 at 3:00 PM-5:00 PM is our Maker Day! Our other Maker Day Events have been met with such great enthusiasm that we are offering a condensed version to start off our Wednesday afternoon programs. We will have "centers" set up in our Meeting Room where you can try something that will interest all levels of interest. Just what are we doing? You'll have to stop in to find out.

See you then!

Summer Reading Kick-Off with Norman Ng!

Don't miss our Kick-Off to Summer Reading at 6PM on Wednesday, June 18 with illusionist and magician, Norman Ng. The show is an exciting fusion of mind blowing magic, hilarious comedy, and tons of audience participation.

We hope to see you there!

New Books!

To help tempt your children into reading over the summer, the Library continues to have new books.

For those who love to read books in a series, we have the fourth book in Dan Gutman's Genius Files. From Texas with Love has the McDonald twins  dodging nefarious villains while visiting weird by true landmarks in the American Southwest.

Kelly Armstrong's, The Blackwell Pages. In this sequel to Loki's Wolves, Matt Thorsen and his friends are back in another adventure. Here, they must journey to the underworld to save a human descendant of the gods to help defeat Ragnarok, the apocalypse.

Origami Yoda is back!!! In Princess Label Maker to the Rescue! by Tom Angleberger, the Origami Rebel Alliance finds powerful allies in unexpected places as they attempt to fight the FunTime test preparation program. Will Principal Rabbski pledge her allegiance?

Fantasy lovers will be captivated by the rich plot and detailed worldbuilding in Tone Almhjell's debut novel, The TwistRose Key. Sylver is a frozen realm that is home to every dead pet that ever loved a

child. When eleven-year-old Lin Rosenquist received a mysterious key arrives that unlocks the gate to the world of Sylver, she is reunited with Rufus, the pet she buried under the rosebush. Will Lin and Rufus be able to locate the missing Winter Prince in order to save Sylver from destruction?

See you at the Library!