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July Happenings at the Library For Kids at Main and Murray Scholls Check out our calendar of virtual events. Live Storytimes Sundays: Family Storytime 4:30-4:45 p.m. Tuesdays: Let's Get the Wiggles Out 10:15-10:45 a.m. Wednesdays: Toddler Storytime 10:15-10:35 a.m. Saturdays: Hora de Cuentos en Español [en linea] 10:15-11 a.m. Story Drops Watch our cute Summer Reading video here! The library building is closed until July 20th. For Teens at Main and Murray Scholls Submit a photo reflecting the theme "Alone." It can be of anything that you feel fits! Send your entry to iduncanson@BeavertonOregon.gov by 11:59 a.m. on Friday, July 31. The winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to Maiale Rosa Wood Fired Pizzeria! Grades 6-12. For Adults at Main and Murray Scholls With the extension of the City of Beaverton closure, library buildings remain closed to the public. However, we are excited to expand our contact-free curbside pickup service, BCL To Go, at the main library. You can schedule your own appointment to pick up holds in HELD status or to grab some Book Bundles for your kids. Find out more and book your appointment here: BCL To Go/BCL Para Llevar Check out BCL At Home for library resources and an exciting line up of summer events
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How to Read to a Grandma or Grandpa
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Jean Reagan
Now that you know how to babysit your grandma and grandpa, it's time to teach them how to read with you! In this hilarious new addition to Jean Reagan and Lee Wildish's bestselling How to... series, the kids are in charge! Kids can show their grandparents how to choose a great book, find the perfect spot to read together, and use their best reading-out-loud voices. Even after the book is done, there are lots of activities that kids and their grandparents can do together! Filled with charming role-reversal humor, creative ideas, and heartwarming moments, this ode to shared storytime is sure to delight kids, parents, and grandparents everywhere. n
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Baby-sitters Little Sister 2 : Karen's Roller Skates
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Ann M. Martin
It's going to be a great weekend! Karen has new roller skates and is a very good skater. She's looking forward to trying some new tricks. But, oh no! Karen falls down and has to go to the hospital. Her wrist is broken! Karen is determined to get everyone she knows -- plus someone famous -- to sign her cast. It isn't going to be easy, but she won't give up until the job is done.
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Llamas and the Andes : A Nonfiction Companion to Late Lunch With Llamas
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Mary Pope Osborne
When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #34: Late Lunch with Llamas, they had lots of questions. Why do people raise llamas? What are llamas' closest relatives? How tall are the Andes mountains? What other animals live there? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about llamas and the Andes. Filled with up-to-date information, photographs, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discover in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures.
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Hawk
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James Patterson
Growing up hard and fast in gritty, post-apocalyptic New York City, 17-year-old Hawk, a teen who is not aware of her relation to Max, gives up her search for her biological family before realizing that she is being targeted by an assassin. 250,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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This Is My America
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Kim Johnson
Sending weekly letters to an organization she hopes will save her innocent father from death row, 17-year-old Tracy uncovers racist community secrets when her track star brother is wrongly accused of murder. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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The apocalypse factory : plutonium and the making of the atomic age
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Steve Olson
The award-winning author of Eruption presents a gripping narrative account of the creation of the atomic bomb that shares the less-remembered work of World War II scientists who helped manufacture the plutonium for the bombs in America’s nuclear arsenal. Illustrations.
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