Summer Library Program from the Eddy-New Rockford Library

A UNIVERSE OF STORIES 2019 SUMMER READING PROGRAM

Readers of all ages will explore all things space this summer as the Eddy-New Rockford Library presents “A Universe of Stories” during their summer library program.

Activities may include a space green screen pictures, group games, space-related crafts, and more. The 2019 Summer Reading Program is open to young people, kindergarten through young adult, with programs, storytimes, and more.

Friday May 31^st we will have our kick-off from 2-3:30 we will have a green screen with space backgrounds, a craft and an outdoor game.

On June 12^th from 4-6 we will have an exhibit of actual Moon Rocks on loan from NASA .

Every Wednesday starting June 5^th at 2 pm we will watch Storytime from Space on the big screen, these are books being read by people on the space station.

Again this year kids in grades K-6 will read 5 books do an activity from the sheet and get a movie pass, kids 7-12 grade read 6 books to get a movie pass.

Registration for “A Universe of Stories” begins on Friday May 31^st at 2 pm. For more information, call the library at 947-5540 or visit our websitehttps://newrockfordndlibrary.com/ or our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/NewRockfordPublicLibrary/

All programs are free of charge.

Books about books and books about libraries for National Library Week!

Would you like to join us for book club? Stop in a pick up a book and join us for the discussion on April 16th at 6 pm.

This months book club read is

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin’s orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.

Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously–and at great risk–documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father’s prison camp to let him know they are still alive. It is a long and harrowing journey, spanning years and covering 6,500 miles, but it is through incredible strength, love, and hope that Lina ultimately survives. Between Shades of Gray is a novel that will steal your breath and capture your heart.

Top 20 Books checked out in 2018

1. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
2. The Wife between us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
3. Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine
4. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
5. Killman Creek by Rachel Caine
6. The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
7. The Recipe Box by Viola Shipman
8. The Forgotten Ones by Steena Holmes
9. The Hush by John Hart
10. After Anna by Lisa Scottoline
11. Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier
12. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
13. Girl in Disguise by Greer Macallister
14. The Perfect Couple by, Elin Hilderbrand
15. I’ve Got My Eyes On You by Mary Higgins Clark
16. Her Last Goodbye by Melinda Leigh
17. The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
18. The Fallen by David Baldacci
19. The Woman on the Orient Express by Jayne Lindsay Ashford
20. Where the Crawdads Sing by Della Owens