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Children's Room
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News & Updates
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Meet the Author
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Saadia Faruqi
Saturday, March 28th
10 am
Large Meeting Room
Come meet author Saadia Faruqi! She'll talk about growing up in Pakistan, share her journey to becoming a writer, and read to us from one of the newest Yasmin stories! Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Saadia Faruqi is a Pakistani American author, essayist and interfaith activist. She writes the children's early reader series '
Yasmin
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A Place At The Table
(HMH/Clarion 2020) co-written with Laura Shovan, and
A Thousand Questions
(Harper Collins 2020). She resides in Houston, TX with her husband and children.
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Meet the Author
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David A. Kelly
Wednesday, April 1st
2 pm
Large Meeting Room
Come meet David A. Kelly, author of The Ballpark Mysteries series! Hear about his newest book, his adventures in ballparks around the country and his writing process. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
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On Your Own Story Club
Ages 5 & 6
Registration required
6 Week Session:
Tuesday, March 3, March 10, March 17, March 24, March 31 and April 7 at 4 pm
For 5 & 6 year-olds who are ready to attend independently. We will listen to, explore and talk about literature using folklore, fairy tales, picture books and poetry.
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Pajama Storytime
Ages 2 and up
No registration required
Tuesday, March 3 at 7 pm
To celebrate the Boston Bruins PJ Drive, join us for soothing bedtime stories. Wear your pajamas and bring a stuffed friend!
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ComicSquad
Grades 3 - 5
No registration required
Wednesday, March 4 at 4 pm
What makes comics and graphic novels so special? Talk about your favorites with fellow enthusiasts and even draw your own!
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Brickbuilders Jr
Grades K - 2
Registration required
Thursday, March 5
2 - 3 pm or 3:15 - 4:15 pm
Do you love building with LEGO® bricks? Join others who do to create, learn, and share ideas. Members will have a chance to work individually and in teams to build creations.
LEGO® clubs meet monthly. When you
sign up
, you are registered for February - May. Please register for only one time slot.
The programs conducted by Cary Library are not affiliated, sponsored, or endorsed by LEGO® Education or the LEGO® Group. LEGO®, the LEGO® logo, the Brick, DUPLO®, and MINDSTORMS® are trademarks of the LEGO® Group. ©2018 The LEGO® Group.
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Pajama Dance Party
Ages 2 - 5
No registration required
Wednesday, March 11 at 9:45 am
Join us for this special pajama dance party! Wear your pajamas, bring a stuffed friend, and come dance with us! Remember, grown ups dance too!
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LHS Origami Club
All Ages
No registration required
Friday, March 13 at 3:30 pm
Lexington High School's Origami Club will be teaching origami.
All ages are welcome to join in on the paper folding fun. No prior origami experience required!
This event is a part of our Cary Teens Lead the Way program designed to showcase the many talents of our community's teens!
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Minecraft Hour of Code
Grades 3 - 5
Registration required
Tuesday, March 17 at 7 pm
Journey through Minecraft and practice the fundamentals of block based code with self-paced tutorials by Mojang, Microsoft, and Code.org.
Attendance is limited.
Sign up online
beginning
Monday, March 9 at 7:00 pm.
Phone reservations accepted beginning at 7:30 pm. Each child must be registered individually
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Brickbuilders Club
Grades 3 - 5
Registration required
Thursday, March 19, 2 - 4 pm
Do you love building with LEGO® bricks? Join others who do to create, learn, and share ideas. Members will have a chance to work individually and in teams to build creations.
LEGO® clubs meet monthly. When you
sign up
, you are registered for February - May.
The programs conducted by Cary Library are not affiliated, sponsored, or endorsed by LEGO® Education or the LEGO® Group. LEGO®, the LEGO® logo, the Brick, DUPLO®, and MINDSTORMS® are trademarks of the LEGO® Group. ©2018 The LEGO® Group.
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Baby Play
Ages 0-2
No registration required
Friday, March 27 at 2 pm
Join us for this special program just for babies! We'll sing songs, do some rhymes, bounces, and fingerplays, and have lots of time to play and have fun!
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Weekend Activities
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Story Play
(ages 0 - 5)
Saturday, March 7 and 21 at 9:30 am
Saturday Sing Along
(ages 2 - 5)
Saturday, March 14 at 9:30 am
Block Party
(all ages welcome)
Saturday, March 28 at 2 pm
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Preschool Activities
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Mondays:
10:30 am:
Music Monday (ages 2 - 5)
Tuesday:
10:30 am:
Theodore's Imagination
Station (ages 2 - 5)
1:30 pm:
Preschool Arts and Crafts
(ages 3 - 5 w/caregiver)
Wednesday:
9:45 am:
Dance Party (ages 2 - 5)
10:30 am:
Preschool Storytime (ages 3-5)
Thursday:
9:30 am:
Storytime Jr. (ages 0 - 2)
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Bookmarks Book Club
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Grades 2 - 3
Registration for the next session begins online on Monday, March 30th at 7 pm
Meets Wednesdays
April 15th, April 29th
May 13th, May 27
June 10th
4 - 4:30 pm *OR* 4:45 - 5:15 pm
When you register, you are registered for all dates. Please only register for one time slot.
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Bookivores Book Club
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Grades 4 & 5
Registration for the next session begins online at 7 pm on Monday, March 30th.
Meets Mondays
April 13th, April 27th
May 4th, May 18th
June 1st
4 - 4:45 pm
When you register, you are registered for all dates in the session.
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What Our Book Clubs Are Reading
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Bookmarks (2nd & 3rd Grades)
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Danny Dragonbreath is the only mythical creature at a school filled with reptiles and amphibians. He can't breathe fire like normal dragon. The school bully keeps stealing his lunch. And now Danny has to rewrite his report about the ocean and use, ahem , actual research. His loyal but nerdy best friend Wendell suggests the library. But Danny has a way better plan.
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Sassy and Waldo need to save their boy from being bored all day in class, but the school won't let two dogs inside. Good thing they found that trench coat! Sassy and Waldo are good dogs. Sassy and Waldo spend their day keeping the house safe. Has a squirrel ever gotten inside? No! But every day their boy, Stewart, leaves for a scary place: school! Sassy and Waldo need to save Stewart. But they don't let dogs into school. Not even the really good ones. Sassy and Waldo put on the trench coat. Now everyone at Bea Arthur Elementary thinks they are a new student. Everyone except Stewart.
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Bookivores (4th & 5th Grades)
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Rick Riordan Presents Yoon Ha Lee's space opera about thirteen-year-old Min, who comes from a long line of fox spirits. But you'd never know it by looking at her. To keep the family safe, Min's mother insists that none of them use any fox-magic, such as Charm or shape-shifting. They must appear human at all times. Min feels hemmed in by the household rules and resents the endless chores, the cousins who crowd her, and the aunties who judge her. She would like nothing more than to escape Jinju, her neglected, dust-ridden, and impoverished planet. She's counting the days until she can follow her older brother, Jun, into the Space Forces and see more of the Thousand Worlds.
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Book Bites (4th & 5th Grades)
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Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks--and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday. But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor. It's then that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a place in the city's most prestigious organization: the Wundrous Society. In order to join, she must compete in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other children, each with an extraordinary talent that sets them apart--an extraordinary talent that Morrigan insists she does not have. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to find a way to pass the tests--or she'll have to leave the city to confront her deadly fate
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Book Talks (4th - 6th Grades)
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The zombie apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel, and Joe are practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and nearly get knocked out by a really big stink. Little do they know the plant's toxic cattle feed is turning cows into flesh-craving monsters! The boys decide to launch a stealth investigation into the plant's dangerous practices, unknowingly discovering a greedy corporation's plot to look the other way as tainted meat is sold to thousands all over the country. With no grownups left they can trust, Rabi and his friends will have to grab their bats to protect themselves (and a few of their enemies) if they want to stay alive...and maybe even save the world.
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ComicSquad (3rd - 5th Grades)
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The enemy grows stronger... Emily survived the chaos of the Guardian Academy, but Max Griffin has stolen the Mother Stone. With it, the Elf King forges new Amulets that will give him the power to invade and destroy the nation of Windsor. Emily and her friends lead the soldiers of the Cielis Guard in a fight to stop him, but Max stands in their way. Emily seeks information from the Voice of her Amulet, but instead she discovers the Voice is much more sinister than she ever could have imagined.
A worthy mission... or a trap? Navin and his classmates journey to Lucien a city ravaged by war and plagued by mysterious creatures where they search for a beacon essential to their fight against the Elf King. Meanwhile Emily heads back into the Void with Max, one of the Elf King's loyal followers, where she learns his darkest secrets. The stakes for both Emily and Navin are higher than ever.
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Cove has lived her entire life on Martha's Vineyard with a mother who teaches yoga, loves kale, and refuses to buy commercial clothing. Her best friend Nina has been her grounding force until Nina's dads decide to move to New York City, now Cove is left battle the world of bullies and loneliness on her own. When she meets a young writer named Jonah and learns all about the hip show Create You a fashion design show for teens (which I wish was real because I would watch it in a heartbeat!) she finds her chance to visit Nina in the big city and FINALLY get off of the island that's been her entire life.
Growing up is hard, and few authors get the intricacies of what it is like to grow up feeling out of place in such a beautifully relatable way! 10-year-old India, moving from place to place needed this exact book.
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Terrance was born without a shell so his parents gave him a box! When other turtles make fun of him, Terrance and his friend the little hermit crab go off to find a new, better shell.
This sweet picture book is filled with messages of individuality, friendship, and self-acceptance! Be sure to also check out Roeder's debut picture book,
Lucy and the String.
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March is Women's History Month, and it's mixed with a lot of magic as the 22nd-28th is also World Folklore Tales and Fables Week! We've compiled a list filled with strong female protagonists from Folklore, Fairytales, and Myth!
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