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MRLS Newsletter — December 2022
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TumbleBook Library TumbleBook Library is a curated database of children’s e-books, containing over 1,100 titles for grades K-6, and includes:
- unique animated, talking picture books
- read-along chapter books
- nonfiction books and videos
- curated playlists
- books in Spanish and French
- graphic Novels
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Lightbox Learning Lightbox features over 2,400 interactive, media-enhanced e-books for kids in grades K-5, including: - AV2 K-5 Nonfiction: e-books with built-in slideshows, audio, videos, links, and quizzes
- K-2 World Languages: e-books with audio that let you toggle between 13 different languages
- K-2 EyeDiscover: e-books that feature videos and narration called “optic readalongs”
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Just for Kids Access Video Just for Kids Access Video gives kids a fun and educational place to stream a wide variety of videos without advertisements. Videos include education-related topics including math, ABCs, science, history, and more as well as full episodes from PBS favorites like Reading Rainbow, Wild Kratts, and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.
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The Snowman Waltz
by Karen Konnerth - Picture Book
This amusing read-aloud picture book offers a subtle lesson in cooperation as a dozen penguins in red bowties and a dozen snowmen in top hats and mittens collide on the ice and must find a way to share the same space.
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The Winter Bird
by Kate Banks - Picture Book
With the help of forest animals, a nightingale with a broken wing learns how to prepare for weather it has never had to experience and discovers there's beauty to be found in even the harshest weather.
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So Much Snow
by Kristen Schroeder - Picture Book
Unique, beautiful and clever, this mostly wordless picture book captures the joy and surprises of a snowy winter day.
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Ty's Travels: Winter Wonderland
by Kelly Starling Lyons - Easy Reader
Ty's big imagination takes him and Momma on a trip to the North Pole. Everything is wonderful! A Christmas tree sparkles, a snowman waves, and a polar bear sings. Will Ty's wish to see Santa come true?
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Princess Evie: The Enchanted Snow Pony
by Sarah KilBride - Juvenile Fiction
Princess Evie and her pony Silver must rescue one of the Queens fairies while on a magical journey to the Mid-Winter Ball with their friends.
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Dawnlands
by Philippa Gregory - Adult Fiction
The fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in 17th-century England. From the last battle in the desolate Somerset Levels to the hidden caves on the slave island of Barbados, this third volume of an epic story follows a family from one end of the empire to another, to find a new dawn in a world which is opening up before them with greater rewards and dangers than ever before.
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Desert Star
by Michael Connelly - Adult Fiction
A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge. For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him. Ballard makes Bosch an offer: come volunteer as an investigator in her new unit, and he can pursue his "white whale" with the resources of the LAPD behind him. The two must put aside old resentments and new tensions to run to ground not one but two dangerous killers who have operated with brash impunity
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The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
by Buzz Bissinger - Adult Nonfiction
This extraordinary story of WWII follows two U.S. Marine Corps regiments as they played each other in a football game in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal known as The Mosquito Bowl before they faced the darkest and deadliest days at Okinawa. Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in "The Mosquito Bowl" would be killed, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. This is the story of these brave young men, those who survived and those who did not. It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence.
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Meherrin Regional Library 133 West Hicks Street Lawrenceville, Virginia 23868 434-848-2418www.meherrinlib.org/ |
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