V is for . . . Vampire: A Vampire Island Story

Lexie Livingstone, a vampire-human hybrid living in New York City and trying to gain mortality, faces typical ninth grade dramas like boys and school politics, as well as not-so-typical obstacles like obnoxious pixie houseguests.

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Who Stole Grandma's Million-Dollar Pumpkin Pie?

When the recipe for his grandmother's famous pumpkin pie is suddenly missing just before Thanksgiving Day, Alex and his friend Yasmeen try to solve the mystery of its disappearance.

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Pigs Make Me Sneeze

Mo Willems' award-winning Elephant and Piggie series continues to charm readers. Featuring two lovable and funny characters -- an optimistic (and sometimes reckless) pig and a cautious, pessimistic elephant -- these books make reading irresistible to the beginning readers. Children who sat on their parents' laps to have Pigeon read to them will eagerly take the plunge with these books to start reading on their own.

Each book has been vetted by an early learning specialist (and many adorable early learners).

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The Runaway Dragon

When Laddy, her beloved dragon, flies away from home, princess Meg must make a plan and go after him to bring him back in this fun-filled fantasy tale featuring heroic guardsmen, powerful wizards, magic carpets, and one very dashing bandit.

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Extra Credit

As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.

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Alienated

Obtaining top-secret information about the lives of aliens as a result of their cousin Fred's special connections, eighth-graders Gene and Vince soon become celebrated writers; but everything changes when the aliens start to disappear and people they know begin to transform before their very eyes.

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Open Road's Best National Parks with Kids

Profiles twenty-one family-friendly vacation options in American national parks, describing attractions of interest as well as local accommodations for such areas as Yellowstone, Mesa Verde, and Carlsbad Caverns.

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2010 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards

The consolidation of baseball card companies is leading to fewer cards being produced, and changing the scope of cards and the prices. Be it vintage cards or modern-era that draws your interest you're sure to find pricing and identifying details in this book that will make a difference in your buying and selling efforts. With 1 million updated real-world prices, a bonus CD with listings not in the book and modern Minor League cards, and 10,000 photos this must-have baseball book is a collecting homerun.

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Atlas of the Universe

Inside this remarkable guide to outer space, you'll find everything from detailed planetary topography to the most current facts and figures about our amazing Universe. In addition to extensive maps of outer space, this atlas also includes constellation charts; diagrams and cross sections of space objects like asteroids and meteorites; the latest information on space shuttles and missions; and stunning, oversize images that capture exploding supernovas and distant galaxies, Designed for the next generation of space enthusiasts, Atlas of the Universe contains everything you need to navigate the night sky -- and the farthest reaches of the cosmos.
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A Season of Gifts

Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.

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The Faceless Ones

Fourteen-year-old Valkyrie and the skeleton mage, Skulduggery Pleasant, try to foil a plot set in motion fifty years before to find and open the gate that will allow the Faceless Ones to return to this reality.

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Halloween Storytimes next week

Halloween is coming.
Our storytimes next week will all be Halloween themed.
So come in costume and enjoy the trick or treat parade through the library.

The Faceless Ones

Fourteen-year-old Valkyrie and the skeleton mage, Skulduggery Pleasant, try to foil a plot set in motion fifty years before to find and open the gate that will allow the Faceless Ones to return to this reality.

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Camping With the President

Shows how, while on a camping trip in 1903 with world-famous naturalist John Muir in Yosemite National Park, President Theodore Roosevelt formed his position on conservation, deciding to set aside new national parks and monuments to preserve wilderness lands for future generations.

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Full Count: A Baseball Number Book

Using numbers as its backdrop, the follow-up to H Is for Home Run: A Baseball Alphabet goes behind the batter's box and into the dugout to explain game basics and showcase historic moments from the major leagues.

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Storytime registration

Storytime registration starts on Saturday September 19Th!!!

Rescuing Seneca Crane

While accompanying her mother on a business trip to Scotland, fourteen-year-old Kari and her best friend Lucas attempt to solve a kidnapping mystery. By the author of The Mystery of the Third Lucretia.

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101 Ways You Can Help Save the Planet Before You're 12!

It’s easy being green! Kids have enormous potential to affect change, and this enlightening book harnesses children’s natural energy, enthusiasm, optimism, and drive to make a difference in the world. Young eco-activists will feel empowered as they begin doing simple things such as cutting down on water use, starting a compost bin, and creating litter-free lunches. From these activities will grow even greater sensitivity to how they, their families, schools, and neighbors can have a positive impact on our planet. A list of websites encourages further exploration.

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Georgia Rises: A Day in the Life of Georgia O'keeffe

Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s own descriptive letters, awardwinning author Kathryn Lasky imagines a day in the life of this legendary artist at her Abiquiu, New Mexico, home. Before the first shades of lavender color the morning sky, Georgia rises – eager to walk the rust red hills and discover images that she will later paint: a bone glowing white, the black wings of a raven against the gray sky, a slice of silver moon.

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The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes

Liberty Aimes has spent all of her ten years captive in her parents' crooked house on Gooch Street. Her spry father, Mal Aimes, is a crook who sells insurance, while her overweight mother sits at home in front of the TV, demanding that Liberty cook nonstop. Liberty’s only knowledge of the outside world comes from the secret stash of children’s books and fairy tales she discovers beneath the floorboards. One day, Liberty enters her father’s forbidden basement laboratory. There she discovers a world of talking animals and magic potions. With the aid of one such potion, Liberty escapes into the world in search of her destiny.

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Cromwell Dixon's Sky-Cycle

In the years and decades following the Wright BrothersÂ' famous first flight, an obsession with aviation gripped the nation. Thousands caught the bug. In an era of innovation and invention, scores of people pursued their own personal dreams of building a flying machine, and many did so right in their own backyards.Few stories, though, are as remarkable as that of Cromwell Dixon, a fourteen-year-old boy who successfully designed, built and flew what he dubbed his Sky-Cycle literally a flying bicycle, that he could fully steer, and that he flew thousands of feet in the air.

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Simon Bloom: The Octopus Effect

In Simon Bloom, The Gravity Keeper, Simon Bloom and his friends used the Book of Physics to narrowly defeat villainess Sirabetta. Now Simon‚'s nemesis, stuck as a helpless thirteen-year-old, wants revenge. In this exciting sequel, Simon and company must enter the mysterious undersea realm of the Order of Biology to find Sirabetta before she can restore her powers. Aided by old allies and some new ones, the kids struggle with fi erce beasts, dangerous enemies, and their own evolving abilities. Blending humor, suspense, and science and throwing new octopus powers into the mix Michael Reisman brings us another outstandingly original adventure.
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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared To Dream

They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow.

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The Butterfly Ball and The Grasshopper's Feast

Renowned illustrator Alan Aldridge introduced the fantastical world of the Butterfly Ball in this breathtaking modern classic. It is now available in a lavish new edition, complete with nature notes by Richard Fitter on each creature and an introduction to the life and work of Alan Aldridge.

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Stonewall Hinkleman and the Battle of Bull Run

Constantly forced to participate in Civil War reenactments by his parents, Stonewall wishes he could just be a normal kid of the modern world, but when he is suddenly sent back in time to the Battle of Bull Run, his knowledge of events becomes a powerful tool that could change the entire course of history.

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2030: A Day in the Life of Tomorrow's Kids

By examining present day trends and technology, this book offers a look at how life will be for kids in the future through a review of the way the world will operate, the gadgets and products that will be made, the environmental changes that may take place, and more.

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Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey

This is the inspiring true story of the John J. Harvey-a retired New York City fireboat reinstated on September 11, 2001. Originally launched in 1931, the Harvey was the most powerful fireboat of her time. After the September 11 attacks, with fire hydrants at Ground Zero inoperable and the Hudson River's water supply critical to fighting the blaze, the fire department called on the Harvey for help. There were adjustments-forcing water into hoses by jamming soda bottles and wood into nozzles with a sledgehammer-and then the fireboat's volunteer crew pumped much-needed water to the disaster site. The John J. Harvey proved she was still one of New York's Bravest!
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Elephants Cannot Dance!

Piggie tries to teach Gerald the elephant some new dance moves, but Piggie learns something even more important in the process. By the creator of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal book, There's a Bird on Your Head!

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Break the Bully Cycle

Every educator needs tools for recognizing and addressing bullying in the classroom as well as in other areas of the school. Boys usually bully in an overt manner, while girls are more covert, and thus may be overlooked. Here you'll find clear, practical advice on how to deal with the widespread problem of bullying. This valuable tool focuses on both bully and victim for behavioral change.

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Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully

Freckleface Strawberry loves the Early Bird program at school because it means extra time on the playground–except when it rains. Rain means indoor playtime...and facing the school bully Windy Pants Patrick in a bruising game of dodgeball. Ignoring him seems the safest thing, but what's our freckled heroine to do when she's forced to confront the bully alone? Beat him at his own game, of course. A funny, inspiring story about an all-too-common problem that kids, parents, and teachers will easily relate to.

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The Last Olympian

The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster, Typhon.

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City I Love

City I Love sparkles like the lights in Times Square! Featuring eighteen poems that guide the reader on an international tour—from New York to San Francisco, London to Tokyo, and beyond—this exuberant collection is the perfect read-aloud for city kids, aspiring world travelers, and adventurous spirits everywhere.

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A Bear in War

Based on a true story, the moving letters of a Canadian family to their father overseas fighting in World War I provides a granddaughter insight to the love and loss they experienced during such a tragic period in history.

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Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children's Day

Bilingual, rhyming text and lively illustrations, along with a letter from the author and fun suggestions, offer a fun-filled celebration of this special day that takes place on April 30th.

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Bad Frogs

They’re wild! They’re irrepressible! And they’re very, very bad! These gleefully naughty frogs are certain to tickle the inner imp in reader and listener alike.

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Fancy Nancy Explorer Extraordinaire!

For the fanciest girl around, the outdoors are out of this world! Fancy Nancy and her best friend, Bree, set out to explore the fascinating world of wildflowers, trees, leaves, birds, and, of course, butterflies in their exclusively glamorous Explorers' Club. With recipes for pinecone bird feeders and extra-fancy lemonade, an official club bird, and an exclusive map of the territory, Fancy Nancy is one Explorer Extraordinaire!

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I'm Your Peanut Butter Big Brother

Selina Alko’s lyrical and jazz-like text, matched with the vibrant energy of her illustrations, perfectly captures the excitement of a new baby for an older sibling, while celebrating the genuine love of family.

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The Black Sphere

The teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, head to the Swiss Alps seeking the last of six scientists whose Project FIREball is of interest to MI6, the CIA, and an unknown assassin.

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The Adventurous Book of Outdoor Games

Lists popular outdoor games for children organized by activity level, including jacks, tug-of-war, stoop ball, freeze tag, and capture the flag.

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The Desperado Who Stole Baseball

When the devious owner of the Chicago White Stockings makes a wager to win the gold mine of Dillontown, young Jack Dillon and a drifter named Billy the Kid know that saving the town they love will take more than good sportsmanship and a few home runs to beat the world champions in the upcoming game.

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Carry Me Tractors

These tractors will carry you away!

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Just Grace Goes Green

Grace can do a lot of things...but can she save the planet???? Or at the very least, can she help her best friend Mimi get her favorite stuffed animal back?

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Harry Houdini for Kids

Provides an informative review of the complex life of this magician, escape artist, actor, aviator, and possible spy for the U.S.--enhanced with instructions for numerous magic tricks, including sticking a needle into a balloon and making a coin vanish.

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Counter Clockwise

With the aid of Bartleby, an enormous Tower of London guard known as a Beefeater, Nathan travels through time to stop his father, Henry, from changing the past and preventing his wife's death.

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What a Good Big Brother!

Cameron is always ready to help when his baby sister cries, whether by handing wipes to his father during a diaper change or finding the nursing pillow for his mother, until one day, when no one else can stop Sadie's tears, her big brother succeeds and gets a wonderful reward.

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Paleo Bugs: Survival of the Creepiest

The companion title to Paleo Sharks introduces budding entomologists to the rather large and disgusting creepy crawlies that crawled upon the earth in the time of the dinosaurs, millions of years ago.

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Tween Pizza Party Postponed

The Tween Pizza Party has been postponed until February 20th from 7-9 and has been opened up to grades 5-8.

Newbery Winner 2009 The Graveyard Book

Raised since he was a baby by ghosts, werewolves, and other residents of the cemetery in which he has always resided, Bod wonders how he will manage to survive amongst the living with only the lessons he has learned from the dead.
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Caldecott winner 2009 House in the Night

Illustrations and easy-to-read text explore the light that makes a house in the night a home filled with light, in a bedtime book for youngsters that names nighttime things, such as a bed and the moon.

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Dirt on Dirt

This ultimate resource for all things dirt, on and around the planet, includes such fun projects as building a bike racetrack, creating fossil footprints, and growing a garden playhouse.

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The Snow Show

Through experimentation and investigation, Chef Kelvin and his helpful chefs, Snow White and Jack Frost, finally figure out the perfect recipe for making the fluffiest batch of snow ever to fall from the sky!

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Woof and Wag: Bringing Home a Dog

With their barks, playful growls, and wagging tales, dogs are fun pets. But taking care of one can be a big job, Look inside this furry book to find the tips you need to make bringing home a dog easy.
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