IT'S ONLY 15 MINUTES A DAY. READ ALOUD!

Since early 2012, the Read Aloud 15 MINUTES National Campaign has brought together community leaders and the key groups who reach parents from birth to age 5 with messaging, materials, and parent engagement programs.

Read aloud to your child.  The books are free at the library!  

FAMILY FUN AT THE BRAND LIBRARY OPEN HOUSE

Sunday, 
March 30, 2014
12 – 4 pm 

A family fun filled day at our special art & music library and park to celebrate the grand re-opening.  Join us for a tour, music, crafts, food trucks & more.

Brand Library & Park
1601 W. Mountain St.
Glendale, CA 91202
818-937-7888
www.brandlibrary.org

BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION TODAY

Join other beginning chapter book readers and Children's Librarian, Vivian, at Casa Verdugo this afternoon at 4 p.m. for a discussion of the book I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1913.  if you didn't get a chance to read it, check out a paperback copy of this popular new series, I Survived.  

Ask the reference desk about April's book club title.   

KEEP ON READING

Research shows that reading aloud is the single most important thing you can do to help prepare a child for  reading and learning.

ATTENTION: NO STORYTIME THIS FRIDAY

ON MARCH 21, 2014 THERE WILL BE NO BABY STORYTIME AT 10:30 AT THE CENTRAL LIBRARY, CHILDREN'S ROOM.  WE WILL BE BACK NEXT WEEK, MARCH 28.  

PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED 1PM  WOODEN TRAIN TIME AND AT 3PM FOR THE ART CART.

EXPULSION BY APPLE

Sierra is the picture perfect student.  She is a member of the leadership club, sings in the school choir The Octaves, and has only received one B in her middle school career.  So why is she suddenly risking expulsion? She understands her school's Zero Tolerance policy.  No drugs, no weapons, no exceptions.  Except what happens when you accidentally take your mom's identical lunch bag to school and inside is a paring knife for her apple?  And you turn it in right away?  

For Sierra, this means a week-long in-school suspension which might lead to an expulsion.  This seemingly unfair act calls into question Sierra's sense of fairness and right and wrong. In Zero Tolerance by Claudia Mills, Sierra learns that life and rules are not always black and white and people are not always what they seem on the outside.  For grades 6 and up.

MARCH TO THE LIBRARY

 "Catch the Read Aloud habit" 

Don't be a statistic, read aloud to your child every day.  

Read Aloud 15 MINUTES. Every child. Every parent. Every day.

BOOK GROUP MEETS TODAY

Our book group for beginning chapter book readers meet today at Casa Verdugo to read I Survived: The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912. 
Casa Verdugo, 3/12 at 4 p.m.  

If you can't come, pick up the book and meet us in two weeks for the book discussion.  
Central, 3/24 and Casa, 3/26 both are at 4 p.m. 

OBSERVE! OBSERVE! OBSERVE!

Wilmer Dooley doesn't just love science, he LIVES science.  His family's motto, as any good scientist family's motto should be is: Observe!  And Observe Wilmer does.  He observes his absent-minded scientist dad forgetting his pants and his mom creating interesting dinner concoctions everyday.  He has recently observed that all of the kids in his school have suddenly begun to change colors and bounce off the walls (literally).  Wilmer doesn't want to just know why, though, he wants to find a cure!  Which would be easy if his scientist father let him use his lab.  But instead he must sneak into his biology teacher's lab when she isn't looking and hope he doesn't get caught.  Either by her or his archnemesis Claudius.  


Can he do it?  Can he save the school and win the 6th grade science fair medal?  Find out in The Contagious Colors of Mumpley Middle School by Fowler Dewitt for grades 5 and up.

WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE IS NOT WHO YOU ARE

That's what Laura Ebony found out during a two week forced stay with her grandmother.  Although she wants to be a fashion model and popular, she's more of an outsider, called Larda by her classmates and the popular girls.  She thought all that would changed this year until she finds out that her class will be going on a field trip to her family's "slave shack". A shack to Laura's mind that has nothing but bad memories and now the whole class will know about her family's horrible past.  

The Laura Line by Crystal Allen turns in another engaging coming of age story weaving in history, genealogy, self esteem and even baseball.  For readers in grades 5th -8th. 

WHAT LIFE LESSONS CAN A PERSON LEARN FROM BULLYING?

After a brief suspension, Julian Twerski is exempt from writing a Julius Caesar report.  Instead, his English teacher and father ask him to journal the events of his middle school life.  Since academic success comes so easily to Julian, he thinks this project will be a breeze.  When he starts, he focuses on journal basics: who, what, when, where, why and how.  He documents his time with his best buddies and his best friend's feelings towards a girl at school.  As the days pass, his writing starts to change when he journals about his discovery of first love, or his experiences with the neighborhood loner, Stanley Stimmel.   Julian reflects more frequently and more intensely about his interactions with his best buddies, Stanley, and the irresistible Jillian, and he learns a great deal about empathy, remorse, and heartbreak.  

The reader cannot help but get drawn in to his reflections, regrets, and growth.

From first time junior novelist, Mark Goldblatt, Twerp sheds light on how a group of middle schoolers can be friendly towards some and be troublesome for others.  Twerp is best for 7^th grade and up.