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Read, Learn, and Play April 2017, Issue No. 1
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Toddler Reading Time
Mondays: 4/3, 4/10, 4/17, 4/24 10:30 - 11AM Join us for a 30-minute storytime program for babies and toddlers ages 0-3 and their grown-ups. Come read, dance, sing, and play with us!
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Family Story TimeWednesdays: 4/5, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26 10:30 - 11AM Weekly storytime for toddlers through early grade school kids. Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and fun geared toward getting kids hooked on reading from an early age!
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Book Club Monday, April 3, 6:30-8:00PM Aloha Community Library Join us and other like-minded, voracious readers for our monthly book club! April's selection is The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich. This month's selection centers on a compelling small town mystery. Evelina Harp, ambitious, young, a part-Ojibwe, part-white girl prone to falling hopelessly in love, is unaware of a violent event that marked the beginning of her mixed ancestry. She learns disturbing truths from her gifted storyteller grandfather.
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Sit n Stitch Monday, April 10 and April 24 6:00-7:45PM Aloha Community Library Bring your knitting, crochet, or other yarn project, and come join the Sit n Stitch group at Aloha Community Library! Trade tips or simply enjoy the company of fellow crafters while you work on your latest creation. No registration necessary.
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Micah and Me Saturday, April 11, 10:30AM Aloha Community Library, Ages 0-7+
Self-described "kindie" band, Micah and Me, throw toddler dance parties throughout the Portland area, and are coming to Aloha! Bring the kids for a morning of singing and dancing to fun-filled songs played on that wonderfully unique instrument, the ukulele. Traditional nursery rhymes and original songs like "Dump Truck" are on the set list.
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Rabbit Advocates April 12, 6:30PM Aloha Community Library Representatives from the PDX-based non-profit organization Rabbit Advocates will speak about the care and welfare of domestic rabbits. If you've always wanted a bunny as a cuddly pet, this is for you. Children welcome if accompanied by adult(s).
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Lego Free Play Thursday, April 20, 3:30-5:00PM Aloha Community Library, All Ages
Spend the afternoon creating masterpieces out of the legendary, colorful building blocks the world calls Legos. We’ll provide the blocks, you provide the imagination!
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The Thank You Book by Mo WillemsThe best friendship between careful Gerald and carefree Piggie is challenged when Piggie embarks on an effort to thank everyone, but inadvertently leaves someone out. By the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
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Pete the Cat : Sir Pete the Brave by James DeanRiding his loyal horse, climbing tall towers and listening to Lady Callie's singing, Sir Pete the groovy cat-knight embarks on a daring quest when Lady Callie is carried off by a fire-breathing dragon.
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Robot revolutionby James PattersonWhen his underappreciated mechanical helpers cause chaos by going on strike while his mother is distracted by a top-secret project, Sammy and his disabled sister, Maddie, struggle to keep the peace until the truth about the project can be revealed.
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Shortby Holly Goldberg SloanA girl who is rather petite for her age is cast as a Munchkin in a regional theater production of The Wizard of Oz before she bonds with a director who admires her can-do attitude, an adult with dwarfism who does not let size define her and an artistic neighbor who encourages her resolve to stand out. By the author of Counting by 7s.
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The cruelty by Scott BergstromForced to step into a hero's role she does not believe in when her father goes missing, high school student Gwendolyn Bloom is compelled to train as an assassin and assume a new identity in order to defeat kidnapping gangsters throughout Europe's criminal underworld.
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Carve the mark by Veronica RothLiving on a violent planet where everyone manifests a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from opposing countries, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
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Cosmos : The Infographic Book of Spaceby Stuart LoweLife. The Universe. Everything. The human race has always revealed an insatiable hunger to search "to infinity and beyond". In this truly mind-blowing book, partners in science Stuart Lowe and Chris North use cutting edge infographics to illuminate - in a new and unique way - the most amazing places and objects that modern science has laid bare.
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Appetitesby Anthony BourdainDrawing on more than four decades of professional cooking and world traveling, as well as the his more recent experiences as a father, Anthony Bourdain presents a collection of personal home-cooking favorites that deconstructs the structural aspects of satisfying meals.
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Aloha Community Library 17455 SW Farmington Rd Suite 26A Aloha, Oregon 97078 503-259-0185alohalibrary.org/
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