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Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing. Great resources for both teachers and parents! Check out the Smithsonian's Learning Lab. Look through the Distance Learning Resources for more information on how to serve students across all grade levels and links to free workshops and events. A fun database that answers questions submitted by real students from around the country.
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Great New Reads on Libby and Hoopla
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Anna Karwowska (x328) Maria Puga (x342) Bilingual Library Associate |
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Summer Reading Club - Introducing Beanstack!
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Get pumped for our McHenry Community Read! This year we are using a cool new app called Beanstack! Every week you participate, you can enter into a gift card drawing. Every other week we will have a community challenge and if we meet the goal, a business will donate money to a great cause. Finally, if you read 6 of the 8 weeks, you will earn a voucher for a free book from the Friends of the McHenry Public Library! We created a promotional video, so please share it with your colleagues and students! Check it out here: Please check back on June 1 to sign up for our Summer Reading Club! Simply download the Beanstack app on your phone or go to:
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Don't Forget About These Awesome Services!
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We are offering a temporary e-library card to use our digital library! Simply follow this link: Make sure to hit "register now" to get started! We have storytimes, activities, and crafts in both English and Spanish on our YouTube page! We are dropping new videos regularly. Check them out here: We are sharing helpful posts and links on our Facebook page! Check it out here and make sure to follow us for regular updates: More remote programming can be found on our online calendar, which you can check out here: Make sure to regularly check our homepage or our Facebook page for more updates! While we are on a hiatus for many of our regular services, please feel free to reach out! Whatever teaching needs you have, we're here to support them, all summer long. Please contact Anna Karwowska at 815-385-0036 ext 328 or email her at akarwowska@mchenrylibrary.org.
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Once again the McHenry Public Library will be partnering with the Northern Illinois Food Bank to offer the free Summer Lunch Program for children age 18 and under. No proof of residency or income is required. Lunch will be offered every Monday-Friday from 12:00-1:00 pm during the summer beginning 6/1 and ending 8/14. Lunches can be picked up from the north parking lot - look for the banner! Children do not need to be present to pick up a meal. For a copy of our flyer, please visit the links below!
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Help fight summer learning loss by encouraging students to read. With e-books, students have access to books wherever they have access to internet - and some materials can be downloaded for offline use too! These resources can be accessed on any device, whether that be a computer, tablet, or phone! McHenry Public Library has three great options for finding ebooks for students. |
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TumbleBooks has talking picture books, audiobooks, games, chapter books, and classics with a Read-Along feature that highlights text as it is read aloud! Text size and color is also adjustable. For use on a computer or tablet. Use at the library or at home with a McHenry library card!
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Tumblebooks also has a service for teens called Teen Book Cloud! Teen Book Cloud features an online collection of ebooks, graphic novels, videos, and audiobooks geared towards teens.
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Borrow comics, ebooks, eAudiobooks, movies, music, and television shows instantly with your library card and hoopla! Titles are automatically returned at the end of the lending period, so you can vacation without worrying about overdue fines!
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Download digital audiobook and eBook titles of popular fiction and non-fiction, teen’s titles, and children’s books using Libby! Libby is a more streamlined and intuitive version of the OverDrive app.
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Nowhere Boyby Katherine MarshAudience: Grades 5+ Award-winning author Katherine Marsh has presented us with a compelling tale of hope, friendship, and resilience. Nowhere Boy follows the parallel stories of two teenage boys, who both find themselves stuck in Belgium. Ahmed is a refugee who ends up alone after suffering a long and perilous journey to escape Syria. Max is a lonely and homesick boy from America whose family has traveled to Europe for the year. After a shocking meeting, the boys become good friends. They intend to create a better life for Ahmed, and come up with a variety of sophisticated plans to do just that. Despite resistance and setbacks, the boys show courage and take risks in order to stand by their values and do what is right. This book would be a wonderful choice for middle grade readers who are interested in historical fiction. While this story is set in present-day, there are historical parallels woven throughout when Max finds out that his street is named after a man who hid a Jewish teenager during WWII. Nowhere Boy would be a great classroom read as it will help foster discussion about immigration, Islamophobia, terrorism, the Syrian War, and complex refugee predicaments. These topics are brought up thoughtfully in this story in a way that will allow students to empathize with the characters. Nowhere Boy is a 2021 Caudill Nominee and is available through Hoopla, which is perfect for students to access during this time of virtual learning.
Reviewed by Jessie
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What do fictional monsters like werewolves, zombies, and Bigfoot have to do with science? A lot, according to this book! Monstrous connects famous monsters with real scientific facts, exploring topics like electricity, the cardiovascular system, evolution, and more.
Each chapter of this nonfiction title focuses on a different mythical creature and the potential science behind it. For example, the chapter on Frankenstein goes into the origin of electricity, real-life monster mashups like spider-silk goats, and true tales of mad doctors. The book also details where a vampire should bite, states where you are most likely to be eaten by a zombie, how to communicate with a werewolf, and how to tell if you are about to be eaten by a giant octopus - the best part is that each of these topics is then backed by real science concepts, meaning your students will learn while they have fun reading! The book ends with source notes, a bibliography, a glossary, and a map detailing vacation spots to avoid if you don't want to be eaten by a monster. Not only does the book present scientific ideas in a fun and novel way, the writing is conversational and often times humorous. The illustrations are expressive and just a touch morbid (but never scary), and students will love going over the various graphs and tables sprinkled throughout the book. Both of these factors are sure to win over even the most reluctant reader. This book teaches that the real magic is science. Hand it to those who enjoy reading about cryptids and fans of The Last Kids on Earth, Goosebumps, and Margaret Peterson Haddix. Reviewed by Anna
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