For the second month in a row, we've had a Family Search Night at Rockwall County Library. We had fifteen participants learn about familysearch.org, a powerful tool for discovering and organizing family records. Free Stock photos by Vecteezy If you're curious about your family tree, come on out to the next one. As Clarence Jorif … Continue reading Family Search Night
Books to Read if you liked Netflix’s Sandman.
Bennett, Robert. City of Stairs. Gillen, Kieron. The Wicked + The Divine. Harris, Joanne. Honeycomb. Harrow, Alix E. The Ten Thousand Doors of January. King, Stephen. Dark Tower. Morgenstern, Erin. The Starless Sea. Talbot, Bryan. Alice in Sunderland. [Library Pass Online Comic] Vaughan, Brian K. Saga. Vol 1-9. [Overdrive ebook]
Library Card Signup Month
School supplies, like notebooks, pens, and calculators are tools to assist learning. As the next school year nears, parents are lining up at stores to make these kind of purchases. While it may not be an obvious choice, a library card is one of your student's best school supplies. Now, more than ever, its so … Continue reading Library Card Signup Month
Make it a Great School Year!
Parents: Azarchi, Lynne. The Empathy Advantage: Coaching Children to Be Kind, Respectful, and Successful. Behr, Gregg. When You Wonder, You're Learning: Mr. Roger's Enduring Lessons. Bogart, Julie. Raising Critical Thinkers. Powers, Keri. Social Skills For Kids. Siegel, Daniel J. The Power of Showing Up. Teens: Amen, Daniel. Change Your Brain, Change Your Grades. Shannon, Jennifer. … Continue reading Make it a Great School Year!
Read-Alikes for All of Us and Everything
Other titles to read if you liked All of Us and Everything by Bridget Asher: Center, Katherine. How To Walk Away. Hadley, Tessa. The Past. Hoover, Colleen. Without Merit. Hornak, Francesca. Seven Days of Us. Moriarty, Liane. What Alice Forgot. O'Farrell, Maggie. Instructions for a Heat Wave. Tropper, Jonathan. This Is Where I Leave You.
The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustian [Book Review]
Growing up in the deeply segregated South of the 1920s, Ada and Matilda should never have been friends. They probably would not have crossed paths if Matilda had not seen an injustice she could not abide. Ada suffers at the hand of her brute like father and is isolated in a stilt house in the … Continue reading The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustian [Book Review]
All of Us and Everything by Bridget Asher [Book Review]
Quirky and off-beat, yet heart-felt, this novel will astound you. At times, its laugh-out-loud funny and other times profoundly moving. At the heart of this idiosyncratic novel are the Rockwells who lives in Ocean City, N.J. They love to tell people they bear no relation to the illustrator, Norman Rockwell. In fact, nothing about the … Continue reading All of Us and Everything by Bridget Asher [Book Review]
Summer Travel
For those who are getting one last trip in before summer ends, try an ebook or audiobook.
Lasagna Day–July 29
Celebrate "Lasagna day" and "Culinary Arts Month" with these delicious titles. Flay, Bobby. Bobby Flay's Throwdown! Gerard, Tieghan. Half-Baked Harvest Every Day. Kimball, Christopher. Tuesday Nights Mediterranean. Krieger, Ellie. Comfort Food Fix. Oldwen, Woodier. The Pesto Cookbook. Tucci, Stanley. The Tucci Cookbook. Tucci, Stanley. Taste: My Life Through Food.
Learn about this tragic day–July 11, 1804
Brown, Don. Aaron and Alexander: The Most Famous Duel in American History. Fradin, Dennis. Duel! Burr and Hamilton's Deadly War of Words. Sedgwick, John. War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel That Stunned the Nation. Read more at Today in History