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    Junior Friends of the Library

    I was lucky enough to come to a library that has had a strong middle school program for at least the past 15 years.  In the township where I live and work the middle school includes children from 5th – 8th grades, this can pose problems because of the developmental…

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    Fun Friday Program – Secret Codes

    The school year has begun and our Fun Friday program is back and in high demand!  We had 25 kids register with 14 more on a waiting list.  If you’ve missed some of my previous posts, our school district gives the kids a half day on the second Friday of…

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    Good-Bye Summer Reading, Hello Fall Programming

    Summer reading is officially over! YAY!!!!  And we are now in the midst of cleaning, organizing, and trying to wrap our heads around everything that’s coming up in the next few months.  Overall, our summer was very busy, programming went really well and even though we had fewer registrants than…

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    Enchanted Library 5.0

    And so it begins (really it has already begun) but today we began set and costume design for our 5th Annual Enchanted Library program.  I’ve posted about Enchanted Library last year, so check it out if you are unfamiliar with the idea. This year’s theme is Mother Goose rhymes which…

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    Anything But Typical – Book Discussion

    Nora Raleigh Baskin’s Anything But Typical is about Jason Blake, a 12-year-old boy diagnosed on the autism spectrum.  He’s not very good in social situations and often misunderstands facial expressions, but he is also an amazing writer.  He becomes friends with a girl on the Storyboard website where he posts…

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    Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building

    Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building by Christy Hale is a wonderful book to use in connection with a building program.  This book combines poetry, children playing, and architectural works that span the globe.  There is no better thing for a child to do than participate in creative and imaginative…

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    …but it’s only June! (fall program planning!)

    Our township Park & Recreation office publishes an Activity Guide three times a year and we as a library are lucky enough to be given a page to include all of our upcoming events for residents to participate in.  This is great for us because its FREE and it reaches…

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    Lego Robot Building Night

    Last night we hosted a Lego building night with a focus on building robots!  We shared two really awesome robot stories and then spent the rest of the evening playing and building with Legos.  The first story we shared was called Robot Zombie Frankenstein by Annette Simon which I reviewed…

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    Junior Friends Party

    Yesterday marked the end of the school year meetings for our Junior Friends of the Library.  We used to try to have our parties later in May, but the kids have so many banquets, parties, sporting events, and activities that we moved it up this year to accommodate everyone’s schedule and…

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    Fun Friday Program – Haikus

    I have been remiss in blogging about last Friday’s Fun Friday program at the library.  As many of you know, it is National Poetry Month and as such, our porgram centered around haikus.  I began the program discussing the master haiku poet, Matsuo Basho, a Japanese man from the 17th…