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Animanga! (10 years +) Thursdays, 5:00pm Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library 101 E Hunt Street McKinney
Watch episodes, talk about your favorite manga, make animanga-inspired crafts, and hang out with other fans!
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Orphan Train Girlby Christina Baker KlineOrdered to perform community service helping an elderly woman, an embittered foster child is welcomed by her nonagenarian host, who reveals her own past as an orphan while organizing personal mementos.
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Rollby Darcy MillerBaffled when birds begin plummeting to the ground, 11-year-old Ren discovers that a new neighbor is training the birds for competitive pigeon rolling and discovers his own potential for bravery when he begins learning how to train pigeons himself.
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One For Sorrow : a ghost storyby Mary Downing HahnForging a short-lived friendship with a girl reputed to be a tattletale, liar and thief, new girl Annie joins other kids in teasing and tormenting the girl, who dies during the 1918 influenza epidemic before returning as a ghost to renew her ties of friendship with Annie and seek ghostly vengeance against those who bullied her. By the award-winning author of Wait Till Helen Comes.
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Wildmanby J. C. GeigerA scholarship winner arrives in a small town where nobody knows him before he embarks on an odyssey of travel and exploration that finds him drifting far from his high-achieving life in the company of the first girl who has ever let him feel like himself.
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Mango Delightby Fracaswell HymanA first novel by an award-winning Disney and Nickelodeon writer and producer follows the experiences of a seventh-grader whose clumsy accident costs her social status, her spot on the track team and her father's job before becoming an unexpected YouTube sensation and confronting difficult choices about friendship.
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Legend of Oz: The Wicked West by Tome HutchinsonTake a trip back over the rainbow to an Oz you never knew existed! Dorothy Gale slips on her ruby spurs after falling out of the sky and is sent off to follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City. The only problem is the road is gone! Oz itself has been transformed into a wild west landscape: Flying monkeys and scarecrows still walk the plains of Oz, but in ways you would never have imagined!
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The Hardy Boys: The Ocean of Osyria by Scott LobdellAfter rescuing Jackpot, a kidnapped prize-winning racehorse, Frank and Joe are stunned to return to Bayport and discover that the government has arrested their best friend, Chet Morton, for stealing a priceless art treasure! In their comics debut, the Hardy Boys decide the only way to clear the friend is to journey to the Middle East and find the Ocean of Osyria themselves! Includes a preview of their next adventure, "Identity Theft".
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