Family Reading Night: Ninja Party

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Family Reading Nights are back! Join us in celebrating sharing books together. There will be stories and activities centered around fun themes and we will even raffle off books to help grow your own personal library. This program is for children ages 4-9 and their families. Registration is required for all children attending. Parents and caretakers are not required to register. 

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Upcoming sessions

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Resources for NaNoWriMo

November 2, 2016 | agudenburr

From https://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ : "National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing. The challenge: draft an entire novel during the month of November. Why do it? For 30 crazy, exciting, surprising days, you get to lock away your inner editor, let your imagination take over, and just create! Participants begin writing November 1 and must finish by 11:59 PM on November 30. The word-count goal for our adult program is 50,000 words, but the Young Writers Program (YWP) allows 17-and-under participants to set reasonable-but-challenging individual word-count goals."

Children and Teen Resources

Make Me Giggle : Writing Your Own Silly Story by Nancy Loewen

An illustrated introduction to writing a silly story that provides tips and instructions on writing an original story and offers a sample.

Spooky Graphic Novels for Adults

October 4, 2016 | agudenburr
Wytches. Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder

Everything you thought you knew about witches is wrong. They are much darker, and they are much more horrifying. Wytches takes the mythology of witches to a far creepier, bone-chilling place than readers have dared venture before. When the Rooks family moves to the remote town of Litchfield, NH to escape a haunting trauma, they're hopeful about starting over. But something evil is waiting for them in the woods just beyond town. Watching from the trees. Ancient...and hungry. 

Beautiful darkness by Fabien Vehlmann

Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. The sweet faces and bright leaves of Kerascoët's delicate watercolors serve to highlight the evil that dwells beneath Vehlmann's story as pettiness, greed, and jealousy take over. Beautiful Darkness is a harrowing look behind the routine politeness and meaningless kindness of civilized society.

Injection. Volume one by Warren Ellis

Once upon a time, there were five crazy people, and they poisoned the 21st Century. Now they have to deal with the corrosion to try and save us all from a world becoming too weird to support human life. 
Injection begins with Maria Kilbride, who is dragged from hospital to investigate a case of a possessed laboratory and a disappearance that, impossibly, has the hallmarks of ancient folklore.

Read the Book First: Books that Inspired the Movie for 2016

August 2, 2016 | agudenburr

Children's Books

The great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

Winner of the 1979 National Book Award for Children's Literature and many other distinguished awards, this 1979 Newbery Honor Book is filled with love and compassion as it tells the story of an 11-year-old girl who yearns for a real family.

Fantastic beasts and where to find them by J. K Rowling

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander is an A to Z listing of all beings magical (and required reading for all first-year Hogwarts students). Includes a foreword by esteemed Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore.

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