The Children's Room at the Back Mountain Memorial Library has a wide range of book that will satisfy even the youngest reader in your family. The collection includes beginner reader, junior fiction and non-fiction, read-along books with cassette, and videos. The Children's Room also has a reference collection that is geared toward the young student, as well as educational computer games for a wide range of ages.
Family Place- Parent/Child workshop, This new program for the Children's Wing emphasizes parent/child time together, interaction with resource professionals and a circle time of fingerplays and stories. A workshop will be held again this Fall. Call the library for information.
Story Times- Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer story times are held each year for toddlers (2 years of age) and three to five years older. Schedules are published in "The Post" (a supplement to the Sunday times leader) and are posted in the library on flyers and handouts.
Summer 2007 Story Times-
Registration: Wednesday, June 6th, Please call the Library after 9:30 am. (675-1182)
Story times will begin the week of June 18th and end the week of Aug. 6th.
Story Times-
Toddlers (2 years old)
Tuesdays - 10:00am to 10:30am
Tuesdays - 11:00am to 11:30am
Three to Five year olds
Wednesdays - 9:45am to 10:45am
Wednesdays - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Thursdays - 10:00am to 11:00am
(Story Times may change)
Teen Summer Programs! -- Register May 2, 2007.
Donuts and Discussion-
Ages 10, 11 and 12
A book discussion group for jr. high students, donuts and refreshments are served!
11:00am on Thursdays in the Back of the Children's Room
Participants are asked to provide their own books for the program. The Tudor Book Store in Kingston is offering a 20% discount on all books purchased for Donuts & Discussion. Interested tweens are asked to call (675-1182) or stop by the library for more information about dates, times and books selected.
July 12 - Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
July 26 - Surviving the Applewhites by Stepanie S. Tolan
August 9 - The Ghost of Cutler Creek by Cynthia Defelice
Young Adult Book Discussion Group
If you like to read and discuss characters, plot, style, theme, etc. then the Young Adult Book Discussion Group is for you! Come to one or all of the sessions. The group will meet on Monday evenings at 7:00 p.m. “Hoops” by Walter Dean Myers will be discussed on July 2. “Hoops” tells the story of a teenage basketball player from Harlem who is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.
On July 23 the group will discuss “Inkspell” by Cornelia Funke. This book is the sequel to the popular fantasy “Inkheart.” Readers will revisit the character of Meggie as she now turns thirteen. Meggie "reads" herself into Inkworld, where she, her family, and the characters in the book face chaos and danger as the original creator of the world frantically tries to redirect the story.
And then on August 13, “Homecoming” by Cynthia Voight will be the book of the month. Teens will discuss how a mother painfully abandons her four children who then must begin to search for a home and an identity.
Participants are asked to provide their own books for the program. The Tudor Book Store in Kingston is offering a 20% discount to all young adults in the program.
All teens participating in summer reading will be eligible to win a $30. gift certificate from Target.
Please call the library at 675-1182 if you have any questions.
Relax & Read
Ages 12 to 18
(Runs June 11 to August 13)
If you would rather read and write, then “Relax & Read” is the program more suited for you. Teens select their own books and then write a short review of the plot and their opinion of the story. The reviews are then posted in the library for other teens to read. This program begins on June 11 and runs until August 13.
All teens participating in summer reading will be eligible to win a $30. gift certificate from Target.
Please call the library at 675-1182 if you have any questions.
Get a Clue at your Library!
For children from pre-school through 6th grade the "Get a Clue @ your Library" Summer Reading Program
will be running from June 11th to August 16th this summer in the Children's room.
Why should you attend this program? To improve reading skills, to develop positive attitudes about reading, to encourage library use, to motivate families to read together every day, to get free prizes, to attend fun programs, to make new friends, and to solve the library mystery!
Sign up in the Children's Room beginning June 11 by attending a special Scavenger Hunt Sign up program!
Click here for dates and times
Coming soon!
