Filed under: books, Libraries, Newark | Tags: Alameda County Library, books, Newark
No surprise here, librarians love books! Want to hear some of your local librarians discussing upcoming titles and even some classic books? Then listen to “Read On” our new podcast!
Our first episode we are answering the burning questions. Is it possible to rewrite Jane Austen? Can you turn an edgy memoir into a network sitcom? And just what is so great about Hemingway, anyway?
https://soundcloud.com/ac-library/episode-1
For future podcasts, check out http://guides.aclibrary.org/podcasts
All of Harry Potter in one comic!
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Filed under: books | Tags: books, dvds, holds, lucky day, special collection, the Lucky Day collection
Tired of being 134th on the hold list for a hot new title? Check out the Lucky Day collection!
Shelved in front of the Circulation Desk, Lucky Day is a special collection of popular new books and dvds that are available on a first-come, first served basis. If you find what you want, you can borrow it immediately. Like similar items in the regular collection, you can keep books for 3 weeks and movies for 1 week. Lucky Day items cannot, however, be renewed.
Once you find that longed-for title, please remember to cancel your hold, unless you want to enjoy it again when the hold is filled. Thanks.
Filed under: books, children, community, teen, Uncategorized | Tags: kids, Reading Buddies, reading program, teens, volunteers
If you like working with children, enjoy reading, and want to make a difference to the community and earn service hours, we have an excellent opportunity for you!
The Newark Library’s Reading Buddies reading program is currently recruiting teen volunteers to help kids improve reading. For details and how to apply, please download the application form. Positions are open until filled.
Contact: Chien-Chun Chang (510) 795-2627 x 23 or email cchang@aclibrary.org
It’s almost back to school — some for the first time. A new book to share with your little people just starting school is You’re Wearing That to School?! by Lynn Plourde and Illustrated by Sue Cornelison. Penelope the hippo is so excited to start school but her best friend Tiny the mouse tries to temper her enthusiasm, giving her suggestions for how to fit in on her first day. Luckily she doesn’t listen to him and finds her uniqueness, rather than being just like everyone else, is what makes friends. The last page includes tips to make children more comfortable on the first day of school.
Just in time for Father’s Day we got in these new picture books:
The son of an unconventional father promises a similar childhood for his newborn
Explores some of the many and varied ways a father can express his love, even without saying the words, such as by making pancakes, playing games, and reading a favorite story using special voices for each character
A lion cub wants to emulate his father, the king of the pride
We just got a couple of new lego books — with models and instructions for building your own.
Cool Robots by Sean Kenney
Cool Cars and Trucks by Sean Kenney
Here’s a list of the top circulating children’s new books at the Newark Library:
1. The demigod diaries by Rick Riordan
2. Who could that be at this hour? By Lemony Snicket
3. Farmer boy goes west by Heather Williams
4. Dark Lord, the early years by Jamie Thomson
5. Dead end in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
6. Ungifted by Gordon Korman
7. Neil Flambé and the Crusaders curse by Kevin Sylvester
8. One white dolphin by Gill Lewis
9. The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann
10. The land of stories: by Chris Colfer
For awhile now the library has circulated book group kits for adults. Each kit contains 10 books and a discussion guide and may be checked out for six weeks. Now we are offering children’s book group kits as well. Newark received three kits.
“Throughout the twentieth century, Miss Kanagawa, one of fifty-eight dolls made to serve as ambassadors from Japan to the United States, travels the country learning to love while changing the lives of those who need her”
“When the first-graders’ bee antennae would not stay on their heads and the drummers would not stay in their seats for the open house play, Roscoe decides to help by using the “don’t-you-dare” glue”
“A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything”
Questions? E-mail Children’s Library Assistant, Tracy Dodge at tdodge@aclibrary.org.
The first day of Autumn is Saturday and this fall is going to be a great season for book releases. I’m eagerly awaiting new books in many of the series I’m following.
Already available in the Alameda County Library system is Traitor’s Chase, the sequel to The Last Musketeer by Stuart Gibbs. I loved the time travel aspect of the first book after getting into the Missing series and can’t wait to read this lastest adventure.
When our Reading Club for 9-13 year olds (recently dubbed Fiction Addiction) read Found, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, last year, I promptly picked up the other three books in the Missing series: Sent, Sabotaged, and Torn. The fifth book, Caught, is currently on order in our catalog.
One of the most popular series for kids is the 39 Clues. The follow-up series, Cahills vs. Vespers, is proving to be just as popular. If you want to read book 4, Shatterproof, place your hold now.
The most anticipated children’s book this Fall is Rick Riordan’s The Mark of Athena. The third installment in the Heroes of Olympus series, the sequel series to Percy Jackson and the Olympians, already has over 200 holds on it, so be sure and reserve your copy today.
Although not a children’s book (or a series) this time, the new one by J. K. Rowling, Casual Vacancy, is also set to come out this Fall. It’ll be hard to follow Harry Potter and this new novel promises to be very different from the series we all know and love.
What new books are you looking forward to in the coming months? Do you have a favorite you’ve read recently, or a classic you come back to over and over again? Let us know by coming to the Newark Library and adding a leaf to the “Fall Into Reading” display in the children’s picture book section.
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