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Children's Room
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News & Updates
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Where's the Wizard?
Saturday, July 25th
1 - 2 pm
Where... you have to find him!
If you've been to a recent Fairy Tale Ball, then you know our friend the giant Wizard! He's come to Lexington to visit today, but he is hiding in a secret location - can you find him??? We'll be posting clues to his location on our Facebook page, see if you can guess his location! Come find him and wave hi from a social distance! We'll post his location at 1:30, so if you haven't figured it out yet, you can still come by and wave hi!
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Mr Vinny @ Home
Wednesday July 25th
Our friend Mr Vinny is putting on a special show from his home just for us! Big bubbles, big puppets, little puppets, shadow puppets, storytelling, music... you never know what Mr Vinny will have in his bag of tricks!
This show will be available for viewing on our
YouTube
channel beginning Wednesday July 25th at 9 am for one week to watch at your convenience thanks to Mr Vinny and the Friends of Cary Memorial Library.
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Classic Reads
Grades 2 and up
No registration required
Daily at 7 pm on YouTube
Join Jae weeknights at 7pm on
YouTube
for a chapter-a-day read-aloud of
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
and
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll.
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Local Author Storytime
All Ages
No registration required
new storytime posted Mondays at 9 am on
YouTube
Join us each week for a special storytime featuring a local author! A new storytime is posted each Monday at 9 am and is available for viewing any time during that week. This week's storytime features Brian Lies reading
Bats at the Library
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Virtual Family Crafts
Ages 5 and up
No registration required
(register only for supply pack)
posts on
YouTube
every other Monday
Watch at any time at your convenience! No registration necessary to participate! Most crafts each week will be using craft supplies you are likely to have on hand at home, but we will be supplying a limited number of craft kits for anyone who may need one - please only take one if you do not have access to the supplies. Registration for supply packs open the week prior to the video posting. Supplies needed for each week are listed on the event calendar.
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Page Turners Book Club
Grades 4 & 5
Registration Required
Tuesday July 21st
3 pm or 4 pm
Space is limited. Registration required. Sign up online beginning at 7 pm on Monday, July 13th.
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Bookmarks Book Club
Grades 2 & 3
Registration Required
Wednesday July 22nd
3 pm or 4 pm
Space is limited. Registration required. Sign up online beginning at 7 pm on Monday, July 13th.
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Virtual Preschool Crafts
Ages 3-5
Registration required
Thursday, July 23rd
1:30 pm
Explore! Learn! Create art! All materials will be provided.
Space is limited. Registration required. Sign up online beginning at 7 pm on Monday July 13th.
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Summer Storytimes
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Monday:
Music Mondays (ages 2 - 5) at 10 am
Tuesday:
Theodore's Tales (grades K - 1) at 2 pm
Wednesday:
Summer Stories (ages 0 - 4) at 10 am
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Save the Date:
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Coming in August....
It's the Toe Jam Puppet Band! (Virtual) Wednesday August 5th at 10:30 am
Jungle Jim's Balloon Magic Virtual Show (ages 5 & up) - Tuesday August 11th at 11 am
Kids Cooking Green Classes: Monday August 17th
Grades K - 2 at 10 - 11 am
Grades 3 - 5 12 - 1 pm
Space is limited. All programs will require registration. Stay tuned for more information!
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What Our Book Clubs Are Reading
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Bookmarks (2nd & 3rd Grades)
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The S
isters Eight series Book 1:
Annie's Adventures by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
On New Year's Eve, the octuplets Huit--Annie, Durinda, Georgia, Jackie, Marcia, Petal, Rebecca, and Zinnia--discover that their parents are missing, and then uncover a mysterious note instructing them that each must find her power and her gift if they want to know what happened to their parents.
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Little Legends series Book 1
The Spell Thief by Tom Percival
Life for Jack is great — he's got a magical talking hen named Betsy, he lives in a town where stories literally grow on trees, and all his best friends live there with him. That is, until Anansi, the new kid in town, arrives... When Jack sees Anansi having a secret meeting with a troll — everything changes. Trolls mean trouble and Jack will stop at nothing to prove that Tale Town is in danger. Even if that means using stolen magic!
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Page Turners (4th & 5th Grades)
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Artemis Fowl series Book 1
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
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You Go First by Erin Entrada Kelly
Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.
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Book Talks (5th - 6th Grades)
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The Other Half of Happy by Rebecca Balcarcel
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are keeping secrets, because she is sure there is something wrong with her little brother, Memito, who is becoming increasingly hard to reach
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I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day
When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity
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Here are a few titles recommended off the 2020 Summer Reading lists! Find your full lists on our
summer learning website.
K - 1:
2 - 3
4 -6
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