🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #89 | All Together Now 🫱🏻🫲
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
🫱🏻🫲 All Together Now - Summer Reading 2023
This summer we celebrate the theme of All Together Now with programs and reading challenges for children and teens. Our summer reading program (SRP) is designed to allow you to read what you want, as much as you want, when you want, and maybe win a prize!
At our kick-off event on June 3rd, kids and families can:
- enjoy a fun, interactive concert by husband and wife duo Two of a Kind
- register for the reading and prize portion of the SRP
- learn about and register for programs happening at the library during the months of June and July
- visit with other local agencies and find out what they offer
Follow this link to view all of the youth programs and registration forms: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/youth/sr2
Click on this link to register for the reading and prize portion of the SRP. In order to participate in the prize raffle, your child must be registered and complete a reading log for their age group. Reading logs can be printed from our website or picked up at the library.
📅 Library closed for Memorial Day
🪖 Monday, May 29th the library will be closed in observance of Memorial Day. We will reopen the next day at 9:00 AM
📅 View the list of all of our holiday closures here: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/using-library/library-closings
📲 Get free eBooks with your library card, whether the library is open or not: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/programs-services/ebooks-main
📢 June book sale: Wednesday, June 21 to Friday, June 23
📢 The next Friends of the Juniata County Library book sale will be held Wednesday, June 21, Thursday, June 22 and Friday, June 23, 2023 during regular business hours.
Wednesday, June 21 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Thursday, June 22 from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Friday, June 23 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
We provide the bag, you fill it for $7!
Note: there will not be a preview night for the June book sale.
ℹ️ More info: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/programs-services/book-sales
Passport Services at the Library! ✈️
Make an appointment at the Juniata County Library to get or renew your passport!
Visit our website to learn more about this new service and how you can get a passport or renew your passport.
Passport agents: Vince Giordano, Christine May and Mercedes Berrier
Book of the week! – if you are going to read one book, give this one a try…
We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly (formats available: book, eBook, eAudio)
(Kids fiction: historical, school, astronauts & space)
The Thomas siblings—13-year-old Cash and 12-year-old twins Fitch and Bird—all struggle to navigate the doubts of middle school and their dysfunctional family. Cash sees himself as a failure. He isn’t good at anything, and now he’s repeating seventh grade with his two younger siblings. Fitch is good at video games but bad at controlling his temper. Bird likes tinkering with machines but feels invisible. The Thomas household is toxic with their parents’ constant fighting, and Bird feels like she has to keep their family from malfunctioning altogether.
It’s January 1986, and their teacher is gearing them up for the launch of the space shuttle Challenger. Bird is enthralled with the space mission and decides she’s going to be a shuttle commander one day. But when the Challenger disaster occurs, Bird finds herself in need of the support she’s been giving. Each chapter begins with a date in January 1986, then divides into short vignettes following each sibling on that day. Kelly writes a heartfelt story of family and the bond of siblings.
Even though readers are transported to 1986, the characters’ social, emotional, and familial struggles will feel familiar and timely. Characters seem to default to white, with the occasional surname hinting at ethnic difference.
Bottom line: Put this book in your orbit!
Borrow the book: We Dream of Space: book, eBook, eAudio
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--Vince Giordano
Librarian and Director of the Juniata County Library.
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