Monday Craft Kits, Neighborhood Storytime, and a February Reading Challenge!

Pick up your craft kits for a Fill My Heart With Love Penguin (2-4 year olds) or an Origami Unicorn (5-7 year olds) at the drive through window or the Children's Dept. until supplies run out! Ms. Brenda will bring extra to our Neighborhood Storytime tomorrow morning at Stevenson Park Pavilion at 10:30am!

Be sure to sign up for our Fall in Love with Reading February Challenge on Beanstack! It's easy to make an account and track the time you spend reading at friendswood.beanstack.org and is designed for all ages! Log time spent reading and write reviews to unlock digital badges. If you choose to share your review publicly, we'll put it on a bookmark in that book to inspire someone to read it!

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Summer 2021 Recommendations for Your High School Reader!

Summer is fast approaching and if you have a high school reader, you might be looking for new titles to engage them this summer. Librarian, historian, and author Alexandria Brown has allowed us to share their recommended lists to help make that easier! Per their blog*: As a high school librarian, offering reading recommendations for students is one of my favorite parts of my job. These lists are for parents, library workers, and teen readers... I created these lists through an alchemy involving age of the protagonists, themes, genre, tone, complexity, reader skill/comfortability level, events and topics a student will likely encounter in their studies during the school year, and books they are unlikely to read for school. I also tried to pick materials that published in the last few years or will be published by June 2021. Preference to #ownvoices and marginalized authors. Below you'll find links to their lists broken up by grade level. Whether you know an avid reader who always...

Origami Racer/Cicada 8 and up craft!

If you'd like to craft along with Ms. Sti on Zoom at 1:30 today (June 23), click this link! Otherwise, you can follow these instructional pictures below! (Make sure you don't glue the yarn!) Loop the yarn around something solid and tug at the loose ends of the yarn to watch your origami climb!

Coraline Trailer!

Here's the best trailer for Coraline so far. And it's actually Neil Gaiman's (he wrote the book) favorite! The movie comes out February 6th and I'll definitely be seeing it that weekend, so if you want to see it with me let me know and we can get a group of people to see it together! I know Kathleen and Mallory are already on board! dftba, Sti

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