LISTEN UP

POETRY OUTLOUD presents a poem from Mariama J. Lockington's novel For Black Girls Like Me. The novel is a lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity.  The author draws on emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family.

"I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark."

FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAYS celebrates cultural diversity with a coming of age story by Rebecca Balcárcel.   Quijana is a twelve-year-old girl who’s trying to figure out how to fit in different social places of her life. As she gets older, she realizes she hasn’t learned much about her Guatemalan roots, or that she doesn’t know much about her cousins who move to town to be closer to her family. She’s starting a new school year, and has a crush on her best friend Jayden, and she wants to be more than friends. And finally, her little brother Memito is becoming harder to understand.

Be unique, be you!  You might not fit in, but you will be the BEST some day!

From We're a Club in the Woods by Bears and Lions!

SING, DANCE, FLY...Choose today to be HAPPY!

POETRY OUT LOUD features silly and subversive poems by Rhett Miller!  Bringing a brand new twist to the everyday life challenges of childhood. Full of word play and clever rhymes, this book of children’s poetry will definitely bring a gaggle of giggles.​

FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAYS returns with Kristen Orlando's book about a fighter, faker, student, and spy.  A seventeen-year-old who is used to changing identities overnight, lying to every friend she’s ever had, and pushing away anyone who gets too close.  Full of tension, action, romance, family issues, and a girl struggling to figure out her identity! 

Join us for NIGHTMARE BEFORE BEDTIME a Storytime series for Adults and Teens.  This installment is by H. P. Lovecraft.  Keeping hopelessness as the central theme, we hear the narrator describe his fall into madness, relying on morphine to make his days bearable until his finances deplete and death seems to be his only release. Nighty night...

POETRY OUT LOUD presents a poem by Laurie Halse Anderson. SHOUT is angry, yet hopeful; sad, yet powerful. Get real and get raw...  The moment to speak has passed. Now it’s time to SHOUT!

FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAYS explores "daughters growing up in a patriarchal culture with a sense of having to choose between being empowered and being loved," by Bethany Webster, in honor of Women's History Month.

2>1... Good is good, great is greater!  2 things for EVERYONE!  It feels good 2 B loved!

From We're a Club in the Woods by Bears and Lions!

SING, DANCE, FLY...Choose today to be HAPPY!

FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAYS rounding off February with a children's book!  Stink isn’t afraid of most things, but when it comes to spiders he’s terrified; and what is he supposed to do when a hairy scary spider shows up in his back yard? Will Stink never go out in his back yard again? Or will he face his fears, with the help of his big sister, Judy.