Youth Services
November is Used Book Drive month at PCL. This year, all good used books will go to Literacy Outreach Belize, a charity that provides books to impoverished schools in Belize. Please bring lightly used, like-new children's books into the Parkland Community Library for this book drive. Read to the Pups! Certified therapy dogs will be here on Dec. 1st and Dec. 15th from 6:30 to 7 pm. The dogs love to have young children read to them! The Library Game Winter Reading Club for ages 5 through 10 begins on Dec. 28th. Check the YS Events page for more children's activities.
School websites: Check our Links for Kids page for school websites. Newbery Medal 2009
"The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman, HarperCollins Children's Books Newbery Honor Books"The Underneath" by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by David Small, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing "The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom" by Margarita Engle, Henry Holt and Company, LLC "Savvy" by Ingrid Law, Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group in partnership with Walden Media, LLC "After Tupac and D Foster" by Jacqueline Woodson, G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Books for Young Readers Caldecott Medal 2009"The House in the Night," illustrated by Beth Krommes and written by Susan Marie Swanson, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Caldecott Honor Books"A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever" by Marla Frazee, Harcourt, Inc. "How I Learned Geography" by Uri Shulevitz, Farrar Straus Giroux "A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams," illustrated by Melissa Sweet and written by Jen Bryant, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co Don't Overlook...The following magazines for young readers: American Girl Ask Click Cobblestone Cricket Highlights for Kids Highlights High Five Kids Discover Ladybug National Geographic Kids RangerRick Spider Sports Illustrated for Kids Your Big Backyard |
