CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR RAFFLE WINNERS!

The names have been chosen, the winners have been called, and us,reading has drawn to a close.

We librarians want to thank everyone who participated, it was so fun to hear about what everyone was reading all summer! See you here next year, same time, same place. Of course, the library is there for you year round. Have a GREAT first day of school, and stop on by your local library to find the hottest new books for fall.

Little Miss Red by, Robin Palmer

It is about this girl named Sophie who on her way to her grandmother's house in Florida, she meets a guy named Jack on the airplane. He starts calling her Red because she is wearing a red coyboy hat. Then the relationship starts. Jack and Sophie become friends, and soon Jack starts staying at Sophie's grandmother's house. A couple days before Sophie had left to go to Florida, her boyfriend Michael wanted to put a "pause" on their relationship. So now Sophie is feeling a little confused because she really likes Jack but Michael is still her boyfriend. -Ruby

Nancy Drew The wild Cat crime by, Carolyn Keene

It is about how Nancy and George are interns for a reporting buisness. One day at a zoo, 4 baby cougars are born. Since courgars are becoming extinct, it is very good news, until they are kidnapped. Nancy must find out who kidnapped the cougars before they die because baby cougars must be fed every 2 hours to live. -Ruby

Nancy Drew whispers in the fog by, Carolyn Keene

It is about how Nancy, George, Bess, and Ned go on a vaction trip where they can white water canoe! But then bad things start happening. Bess's bike gets tampered with and she flys off her bike and hurts her wrist. -Ruby

Screw Loose by, Chris Wheat

It is about these kids in High school, and how they are living their lives. For example, a girl named Chelsea the most popular girl in the school runs away from home when her mother starts going out with one of her classmates father's. -Ruby

No Cream Puffs Karen Day

In this book, there is a 12 year old girl (more of a tomboy) named Madison. It is 1980. She doesn't wear lipgloss like most other girls, but she loves to play sports and joins her towns baseball league in the summer. The first girl in Southern Michigan to play on a boys team (there were no girls teams). The press calls her a star but she just wants to play ball.
     There are crowds at every game and TV cameras start showing up and interviewers too. At the same time (actually a little bit before that) her friend abandons her for the popular girls. And her enemy, Billy Evans plans to bean her in the championship game. Will the boys like her if she strikes them out? She knows her team will win if she van keep her cool and do what she does best at, pitching.
     With exciting games, boyfriends, best friends, and a ? (spoiler!) neighbor, Madison's summer turns out to be full of surprises. -Beftu

Yours Trule, Lucy. b Parker, robin palmer

When Lucy B. Parker get 'friend dumped' by her two best friends right before school starts, she figures out that things can not get much worser. But then h mother is dating Laurel Moses's father, she is horrified. Laurel Moses, the TV/Music/Movie star whose face is on every cover of every magazine. Suddenly, Lucy's life is turned into a different direction. Up until now, her goal was to try to get through the school day without totally embarrassing herself. And now she is going to be the less talented stepsister of the most famous girl in the world. -Beftu

The absolutely true diary of a part time indian by sherman alexie

This book is about a Spokane Indian boy that is in poverty. His name is Arnold and he lives on a reservation. He faces these big ideas, education, hope, poverty, alcoholism, community, and identity. His friends and family die of alcohol, reality that he is in poverty affects his education and his identity affects his hope. In this book, he tries to find hope and fight off all of his problems, including losing his best friend. ...... (spoiler). -Beftu

Love you, Soldier by Amy Hest

When Katie is seven years old, her father leaves, to fight in a war far far away. No one knows when or if he comes home. Life goes on, and Katie draws pictures to send to her father and makes friends with the neighbor Mrs. Leitstein downstairs. On a snowy day, she helps her mothers friend Louise get to the hospital to have her baby. And then the baby Rosie becomes a part of her life. O one summer day, a telegram man brings an envelope with stars on it to her mother, and life is never the same after that. In this book, Amy tells a deeply moving story about the changes war can bring to one family.
-Beftu

A wrinke in time, madeleine l'engle

Chapter 1 summary:
 In the first chapter, there are 4 characters introduced: Meg, Charlie, Mrs. Murry, and Mrs. Whatsit. Meg is the oldest, while Charlie is the youngest. Mrs. Murry is the mother, and Mrs. Whatsit is a neighbor that lives across the street. There is a hurricane in the middle of the night, and when Meghan goes downstairs to get cocoa, which is when she meets Charlie, Mrs. Murry soon joins them with liverwurst sandwiches. A little while later, Mrs. Whatsit comes. At the end of the chapter, Mrs. Whatsit says the word 'tesseract' which makes Mrs. Murry go pale. This all turns out to be a dream. But whoses? -Beftu

What Else Is New?

Ramadan:
Do you know what Ramadan is? A coupe of you reading it might know what it is. Maybe because you or your family members are participating in it. Ramadan is an Islamic Month. It is 9th month of the Gregorian calendar and the holy month of fasting. In Ramadan, you fast for thirty days. Every night from Isha to until about 11:15 p/m, you pray a prayer called Taraweeh. On the last ten days of Ramadan, you ALSO pray something called Tahajud. In Tahajud, you pray from 1:00 to about 10-20 minutes before it is time for Sunnah (when you start fasting). So you dont get much time to eat. A lot of people go to the mosque to break their fast, eat together, pray together, and read the Koran. -Beftu

Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl by Eleanor Roosevelt

Have you read the book Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl? It is a really good book. It is a diaery of a young Jewish girl. She talks to her diary and calls it Kitty. She is in the 1930s, struggling with the Nazis. -Beftu

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In this book there is a girl named Ingrid, a star soccer player on her tea,/ She seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in the beginning of the book. She leaves the orthodontist place in a hurry so she could get to practice since her mother is late to pick her up. This familiar stranger stops her when she gets lost. The stranger brings her into her house and has her wait in a room while the stranger calls the taxi to pick Ingrid up and take her to where her practice is. Ingrid takes out her cleats but puts them on the table when the stranger comes in. The taxi comes and picks Ingrid up. When Ingrid arrives, she doesn't see her team on the field practicing. A few minutes later, her mother comes there all worried.

The next morning, she looks at the newspaper her father is reading and sees on one of the pages the stanger has been murdered. The name was Katherine Kovac. Ingrid thinks all about her until her mother comes in and reminds her to get ready for her grandfathers birthday. She practices shooting and eats s'mores with her grandfather. When it's night, it's time for her game. She looks for her cleats but can't find them. She asks her mother if she's seen them. That's when she remembers she was at the strangers house and she had left the cleats on the table. -Beftu

The Year of Goodbyes by Debbie Levy

Jutta enjoyed going to school, playing outside, celebrating holidays with friends and going on vacation with relatives. 1938, in Germany, it was dangerous for Jews. A man Adolf Hitler, a.k.a Hitler the Nazi leader, had taken over Germany. Jutta and her family tried their best to live a normal life while their rights were taken away. But when their neighbors and friends. Started to disappear, they knew it was time to escape, only if they could find a country that would take them in, before it was too late. This is a book of little poems written by people she knew before they left in her little poem book. A book of a book.  -Beftu

What Else Is New?

Yesterday was Eid. On Eid I got Hakal Eid (money), and lots of it. I went to a lot of houses, (which means more food! + you'll need all of it after all that fasting and praying), got lots of presents. Like $? iTunes card, lots of clothes and hijaabs, jewelry, gift card for school supplies (which I really need because almost everything I want that are NOT plain things my parents won't buy), and more cool stuff. Now all I have left is to get ready for school and things like that. -Beftu

What Else Is New?

Have you watched Dog Days? Everyone is talking about it. Including my best friend Nia. I really want to watch it. But my mom and dad are not the types of going t the movies theaters. My only choice is to either go with my neighbor to watch the movie before school starts or to wait till it comes to DVD and comes to the library. Which is really hard t wait for. If every talks about a particular movie, you can't stand waiting long just to watch it. You'd want to talk about the movie like everyone else and not feel left out in the conversations (if they even have one) because you didn't watch the movie. Soooo, I really want to watch it. I already watched Rodrick Rules and the other one. -Beftu

swordbird by nancy yi fan

the blue jays and cardinal have always hated each other. according to legend only swordbird son of great sprite can conquer evil and restore peace. but is he a legend or is he real? -ming

What Else Is New?

I am trying to write as much as I can to make up for the times I've missed to enter my entries since I didn't have internet and didn't have much time either.  I am taking out all the books in the house that I can find and writing summaries about it. Not just summaries, but things I've done over the summer. A lot of summaries. But of course, way more things I've done over the summer. -Beftu

measle and the dragonadon by ian ogilvy

this book is about measle finally broke the  tramplebone evil spell and is ready to live a normal life. but when he found out that the dragodon is living he was stranded on a amusement park. now he is trying to stop the dragodon no matter what happens.

the school of possibilities by seita parkola

storm is sent to the school of possbilities and is he fail the school he will have to go to the school of lost. the school of lost is like a prison. -ming

Warriors Ravenpaw's path by, Erin Hunter

It is about Ravenpaw and Barley's farm barn catches on fire, and they go to Thunderclan for help. When they get there, they find out that another clan called Bloodclan have been attacking thunderclan. Then Firestar the leader of thunderclan announces that they will attack Bloodclan. Ravenpaw and Barley help. -Ruby

Warriors Warrior's return by, Erin Hunter

It is about how Graystripe and Millie finally find Thunderclan's territory, but soon find out that the humans have destroyed the forest where the clan cats were living. Then Graystripe and Millie find Thunderclan's new territory. -Ruby

Warriors The Lost Warrior by, Erin Hunter

It is about how Graystripe is captured by a Twoleg (human), and wants to find his way back to his clan. With some help from a she-cat Millie, he goes on his long journey. -Ruby

Nancy Drew The mystery of the 99 steps by, Carolyn Keene

It is about how Nancy Drew and her two friends Bess and George go to France to solve a mystery about 99 mysterious steps. A woman has a dream about 99 steps, and so she wants to find out what her dream means. -Ruby

The mystery at the crystal palace by, Carolyn Keene

It is about how Nancy Drew and her 2 friends Bess and George go to Minneapolis to solve a mystery. The mystery takes place at an ice-skating rink run by her friend Alison who was left it by her Uncle who died. The case is that a bunch of money is missing that was left for Alison from her uncle. Nancy has to find where the money is becauuse the rink is running out of money from all the repairs it has needed. -Ruby

The mysterious Mannequin by, Carolyn Keene

It is about how Nancy Drew trys to find out more about a rug mysterious rug that was sent to her from one of Mr.Drew's cliant's. The rug is made with sewn in pieces that Nancy has to decifer. Soon she finds out from the rug that she needs to find a mannequin. -Ruby

How to Save a Life--Sara Zarr

How to Save a LIfe is about teen pregnancy.  Everyone should read it because it's funy, sad and happy.  -Betty

Miss you Mina--Denene Millner

Whilamina (Mina) comes to visit Aunt in New York.  She joins an art class and makes friends and enemies.  Find out what happens.  -Betty

Cloudy with a chance of boys by Megan McDonald

Cloudy with a Chance of Boys is a interesting book.  It is funny and sad.  Read the book to find out what it's about.

Sweet Treats and Secret Crushes by Lisa Greenwald

Sweet Treats and Secret Crushes by Lisa Greenwald is about three best friends, Kate, Olivia and Georgia that have crushes.  So when a blizzard that ruins their Valentine's Day they have nothing to do but think about their crushes,.  But soon they think of making fortune cookies at Georgia's family owned restaurant, Chen's, and pass them out at their building.  Read the book  to find out what happens to their Valentine's Day!  -Betty

Cicada Summer by Andrea Beaty

It's a bout a girl named Lily.  She never talks but she has read every Nancy Drew book.  When summer rolls arlong Tinny Bridges steals things and blames it on Lily.  But then one day Tinny goes missing.  Lily is the only one witht the idea of what happened to her.  Will Lily have the confidence to speak up and find her?  Or will she just leave it up to the adults?  Read Cicada Summer by Andrea Beaty to find out.  -Betty

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

It's about a boy named August.  He was born with a deforemed face and was believed to die overnight.  Though he made it through that night it looks as like when he goest to school he gets bullied laughed at and stared at.  Can he get through this?  Read the book Wonder by R.J. Pacio to find out.  -Betty

pegasus the flame of olympus by kate o'hearn

this book is about when pegasus crash on to emily hanhatten's apartment her life has changed she been fighting stone warriors and meeting roman gods. -ming

measle and the mallockee by ian ogilvy

this book is about measle going in to a spooky house and get trapped in with his guardian wrathmonk. -ming

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Adventures Volume 1

A young boy goes on an adventure to find Dialga. -Albert

island of theives by josh lacey

this book is about tom's dad is going somewhere and the person who will take care of tom is his uncle. then when tom's parent left his uncle said i got to go somewhere its an "urgent business". and tom black mails his uncle to let him come. -ming

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl is a person who you might think is strange. She has a pet rat, sings happy birthday to people at school with her ukele, and dresses wierd. But she's still a person in her own way. She falls in love with someone named Leo, but then people act like they can't see or hear them. When Stargirl moves, changes make like she was never even there. -Katherine

Porcupine by Meg Tilly

Now you may be wondering why this book is called "Porcupine." You have to read the book to find out, but I'll tell you a little bit. Jack (Jacqulin) Cooper's dad has died in the war in Afghanistan. Her mother takes Jack and her brother and sister to their great-grandmother's place, where she just leaves them there! Will they stay, run away or get kicked out? -Katherine

Sprinkles and Secrets by Lisa Schroeder

Isabel has won the baking contest, business is way more than busy in the shop, but Sophie is now performing in a Beatrice Brownies commercial! Sophie keeps trying to tell her best friend Isabel about it but she ends up lying. Sophie is doing her best to make it up to her by being a cupcake to boost up the number of customers in the shop,but, the question is, "will they make it up, or not?" -Katherine

Calli Be Gold by Michelle Weber Hurwitz

Calli's family expects her to be someone, and not an ordinary person. Her sister is a skater, and her brother is a basketball player. One day at school, she has to buddy with someone named Noah. When the day comes that they and their buddies make a booth at the fair, Noah vanishes. Calli finds him far away from teh school, and convinces him to come back. She also convinces her family that they could be whatever they wanted. -Katherine

It's Raining Cupcakes by Lisa Schroeder

Isabel's mom is opening a cupcake shop called "It's Raining Cupcakes" in a town called Willow. But another store called "Beatrice Brownies" pops up! Also Isabel is facing the worries of a baking competition and her mother giving up the cucpake shop! Things are even worse later when a reporter comes to their house and Sophie, Isabel's best friend, seems to ruin her answer to a question! Will Isabel make her mother think otherwise about the shop, make up with Sophie, and win the contest? - Katherine

Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm

Turtle's mom is a housemaid and where she works right now, the owner doesn't like kids. That means that Turtle is going to live at her aunt's house in Key West! There she meets her cousins. Right now I'm going to cut to the good (?) part. Turtle and her cousins have found real treasure! All too soon Turtle's mama get married but her "husband" leaves her and Turtle behind! The names in this book are strange, but it's 1935! -Katherine

The Unfortunate Son by Constance Leeds

Luc was only born with one ear, smaller and weaker than his younger brother. As time pass by with no money for ransom and hope, luca fears he will never see his native france again. - Ming

chronicles of the red king the stones of ravenglass by jenny nimmo

Timoken a lost king found a new castle but an evil stewart takes control of the castle. now timoken is imprisoned. with the help of gabar the talking camal and a lot of friend he escapes. but he needs to face a lot of danger. - Ming

Heart of Stone, M.L.Welsh

An ancient invisible enemy is wrecking a lot of havoc. a lot of things have destroyed there town, but its up to verity gallant and her friends to uncover the truth. -Ming

Schooled by, Gordon Korman

This book is about a boy named Capricorn or Cap for short, who has been raised as a hippie by his grandma until she is sent to the hospital and will need treatment for 8 weeks. With no one else to take care of him, a woman who works for the child services takes him in. Now Cap has to go to a public school instead of being homeschooled which he is used to. There are 1100 kids at the school, and he soon has to learn all of the names since he has benn elected president of the 8th grade, even though he does not know what that means! -Ruby

Boys are Dogs by, Leslie Margolis

The book is about a girl named Annabelle who has just come back from a Summer-long sleep-away camp and soon finds out that her mom and her mom's boyfriend just got her a new dog! Annabelle starts training it with help from a book her mom gave her on training your new dog. Annabelle is going to a new school. A public school. She has always gone to an all girls school, so when she starts going to school with boys, she learns that they are mean and will have to train them to be nicer to her. She uses the dog training books to help her with that! -Ruby

Vanished by, Sheela chari

It's about this girl named Neela who wants to become a famous Veena player when she grows up. One day her grandme sends her a Veena that is her grandma's Veena. But then someone steals it when Neela is in Church talking to a guy named Hal. The whole book is about how she is trying to find the instrument but also learns that it might be part of a curse. -Ruby

Nancy Drew- Mystery on the menu by, Carolyn Keene

It is about how George entered into a baking contest and won, so now she get's to visit a cooking school and she gets to take lessons there! George takes along her friends Nancy Drew and Bess Marvin. Soon a mystery appears because someone is out to get a famous chef named Regis Brady. He get's poisoned when someone puts Lily Of the Valley flowers into his saled, and almost get's killed when suddenly a knife comes flying at him! Nancy, Bess, and George all help to find out who is doing all of these things!  -Ruby

The Karma Club by Jessica Brody

This book is about a girl named Maddy Kasparkova, and her 2 friends Jade and Angie. After Maddy suffers a breakup, they start a club-the Karma Club, and they plan revenge on all the people who hurt them. After every plan that went right, they added a new charm on their Karma bracelets. But soon horrible things start happening to Maddy, Jade, and Angie. Was this Karma getting back at them for all the bad things they're doing to other people? Maddy doesn't get it! She's just balancing out the world! Isn't that what Karma is all about?  -Mariah

the crippled god by steve erikson

this book is about the bonehunter march to kolanse, where waits an unknown fate.Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together.  -ming

Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys super mystery- danger Down under by, Carolyn Keene

It is about how Nancy and her friend George go to Austrailia because Nancy's friend Mick has a mystery for her to solve. Nancy then sees the Hardy Boys there, and they all team up to solve the mystery.  -Ruby

the dark planet by patrick carman

this book is about when edger figures a way to leave the mysterious world of Atherious, but he doesn't know. the dark planet really frightning place compared to the paridise he left behind. a reaaly bad wind moves heavily through a forest full of mutant monsters.  -ming

Bookworms Puzzle Party

 

Main Library
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Celebrate Eric Berlin’s newest book, The Puzzler’s Mansion, with a puzzle party at the Main Library on Saturday. We’ll solve puzzles created by the author himself.

You can even bring a friend to team up with!