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Pembroke Public Library Newsletter September 2020 |
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Friends' Outdoor Book Sale Saturday, September 26th from 9-2 p.m Our Fall Book Sale is still on! Join us for the first-ever Outdoor Friends' Book Sale - weather permitting! Tents will be set up and books will be arranged in subject areas to encourage physical distancing. Stay tuned to our website and Facebook page for more information! |
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Short Stories, Big Impact Session 3: First Person Wednesday, September 9th at 3 p.m. Session 4: Another Perspective Wednesday, September 23rd at 3 p.m. Looking to discover a great “new” author or just want to re-visit a favorite? Want to read but a scattered attention span has you down? Go short! Join Roz Kubek for interesting, lively and focused Zoom introductions to some great American women authors and a sampling of their classic stories. Space is limited; visit our online event page to reserve your spot for each of these workshops. |
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PPL Book Club Tuesday, October 6th at 6:30 p.m. For October the Book Club is reading Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, historical fiction and an adventure story about a boy who rises from slavery to become a free man who travels the world. New members are always welcome; visit our online event page to sign up for the discussion. |
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Interactive Online Storytime Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Toddlers (ages 2 to 5) and their caregivers can enjoy an online and interactive storytime with Miss Melissa. We'll read a picture book and sing some songs while sharing early literacy tips for caregivers. Registration is required through our online event form; online session info will be sent after sign up. |
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Teen Digital Escape Room: Secret Agents Thursday, September 24th at 7 p.m.Teens (ages 13-18) can join in a digital Escape Room! You and your team have been tasked with a Secret Mission. You'll need to discover clues and solve puzzles in order to meet up with the international agent in time. Do you have what it takes to be a Secret Agent? Register here by 9 p.m. on Wednesday, September 25th. |
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Fairy Tale Digital Escape Room: Ages 9-15 Wednesday, September 30th at 4 p.m. Ages 9-15 are invited to an enchanting afternoon within a fairy tale digital escape room. Work together and you'll get to meet a very lost Hansel and Gretel, find a napping dragon, and uncover magic at every turn. Registration is required through our online event calendar; deadline for registration is 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 29th. |
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Stuck on what to read next? We're here to help! Fill out our online reading suggestion form to get recommendations personalized just for you based on your favorite genres, authors, or styles. You can choose to have books selected from our collection for pickup at the library or a list of eBook or audiobook suggestions delivered to your email.
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All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor focuses heavily on the landmark events, movements, and people of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. Main character Cassie navigates adulthood and her role within her community as change slowly rolls across the country and acts of resistance become more frequent, more powerful, and more dangerous. Taylor's writing paints a picture of each decade, treating it not just as a setting, but as an intricate part that shapes the story and characters. Although this slows some scenes down as we learn about the architecture, wallpaper, and arrangements of a new house or something similar, it overall contributes to the book's composition and makes these very real events feel terrifyingly close.
This thoughtful and thought-provoking novel is yet another fantastic addition to fiction in recent years that takes history and frames it to show just how much work has been done and also how much work is left in the fight for equity and equality in the present.
Although this is technically a series finale, it can easily be read as a stand-alone. - Miss Melissa |
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Well Met by Jen DeLucaWhile in the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland to help her sister, Emily is roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire with her teenaged niece where she, after meeting an irritating yet handsome schoolteacher, finally finds a place to call home.
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The Marriage Game by Sara DesaiSet up by traditional-minded parents who would arrange her marriage, a first-generation Indian-American immigrant is chaperoned on dates by a successful family friend who has reservations about how his sister’s arranged marriage turned out.
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Boyfriend Material by Alexis J. HallFabricating a respectable relationship with a man with whom he shares nothing in common when his rock-star father’s comeback leads to unwanted attention, Luc stages publicity-friendly dates that become complicated by all-too-real feelings.
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Read the book on OverDrive/Libby, then watch the movie on hoopla! Labor Day stars Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin as two strangers drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encounter over a long holiday weekend soon becomes a second chance love story. Click here to borrow the book and here to borrow the movie, or check them out from our physical collection. |
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Did you know we have book recommendation newsletters for all ages? Sign up here to get a list of new releases and other suggestions for your favorite genre(s) delivered to your email every month. |
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When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened. |
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There'd been a terrible mistake. Wayside School was supposed to be built with thirty classrooms one on top of the other... thirty stories tall! (The builder said he was very sorry.) That may be why all kinds of funny things happen at Wayside School, especially on the thirteenth floor. |
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At Ella Mentry School, all the grownups are quite weird in their own weird way. The main characters are A.J. (a boy who doesn’t like school) and his arch-enemy Andrea Young (who loves school and everything else A.J. hates). This is a big and silly series! |
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It's the first day of school for Penelope Rex, and she can't wait to meet her classmates. But it's hard to make human friends when they're so darn delicious! That is, until Penelope gets a taste of her own medicine and finds she may not be at the top of the food chain after all... |
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Bilingual musicians and former Montessori teachers Evan and Vanessa speak mainly in English but select a couple of Spanish words to practice based on a theme. Here, they include words for common pets, including cat, dog, fish, and hamster, repeating them to help listeners retain knowledge. This show will help kids stay on top of their language skills while having a blast with the featured jolly, warmhearted songs. |
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Young listeners meet Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician who calculated the trajectory around the moon. Actors introduce young listeners to Katherine Johnson through a first-person audio play, so kids hear her discuss her work and how it enabled astronauts to orbit the moon. Students can also do the hands-on activity, described at the end, to experiment with the concept of orbiting. |
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This weekly show uses those conversations to tell the stories of explorers, photographers, and scientists at National Geographic. The focus here is the black market for dinosaur fossils, how American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews led people to search for fossils in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, and how those discoveries led to the creation of laws to protect dinosaur bones. There’s audio of the moment officials tried to stop an auction of a Tarbosaurus Bataar skeleton, where bidding began at $875,000. Find out what happened to the skeleton, and how the illegal market gets in the way of science. |
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Magazine Drawing Prompt Have a reluctant drawer? Try this fun prompt to take some of the pressure off! Give your artist magazines, scissors, and glue. Once they find a picture they like, they can cut out part of it to glue to a piece of paper. Using any medium they’d like (colored pencils, markers, thin sharpies, paints) they can choose to continue the image (like the example) or completely re-imagine the scene! |
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Tree Study Fall is coming, and it is the perfect time to explore the beautiful trees in our area! Check out this Mass Audubon education unit on trees, full of fun facts and activities. After you’ve learned more about trees, you can even do your own tree study! Pick a tree in your yard or neighborhood. Draw or photograph your tree now, then check back every few weeks in the fall and document any changes you see. You can even continue this project for an entire year! |
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