The Cowgirl Way: Hats Off to America's Women of the West

The 1840s ushered in the beginning of the largest migration in US history. People in crowded Eastern cities and Missouri River towns were feeling the pull of the Western frontier. It was the dawn of a new era of expansion, and over the next few decades, the making of a new kind of pioneer. It was the birth of the cowgirl!
Welcome to the world of nimble equestriennes, hawkeyed sharpshooters, sly outlaws, eloquent legislators, expert wranglers and talented performers who made eyes pop and jaws drop with their skills, savvy and bravery. In this fascinating account of an ever-evolving American icon, Holly George-Warren invites readers to saddle up with a host of these trailblazers who helped settle the West and define the cowgirl spirit.

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Seeds of Change: Planting A Path To Peace

"A biography of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai, a female scientist who made a stand in the face of opposition to women's rights and her own Greenbelt Movement, an effort to restore Kenya's ecosystem by planting millions of trees"

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Summer Reading Club Finale is August 17th from 4-7:30 pm at the Pruyn House

FINALE

MAKE A SPLASH AT THE BOARDWALK BASH!

Tuesday, August 17                 4:00–7:30 at the Pruyn House on Old Niskayuna Road

Save the date for our fabulous finale!  Just like the boardwalk at the beach, there will be games, food, music, crafts, and lots of summer fun!  You will receive an invite when you complete the Make a Splash @ Your Library!  reading program.  See you there! 

The Firehouse Light

Here is the true story of a little lightbulb, located in a firehouse, that has stayed lit for more than one hundred years. As horse-drawn carriages make room for automobiles, dirt roads give way to paved streets, and new buildings transform small clusters of homes into bustling neighborhoods, a small town grows and changes. And fighting fires changes, too: fires once fought by bucket brigades and hand-pulled hose carts are now attended by full-time firefighters and modern firetrucks. Yet now, just like then, the lightbulb glows, strong and steady, above the brave firefighters and their trucks.

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Cloud Tea Monkeys

Traveling alone to the tea plantations above her tiny foothill village when her mother falls ill, Tashi attempts to earn money for a doctor's services until her clumsiness angers a cruel overseer, in a story inspired by the Chinese legend of tea-picking monkeys. Co-written by the Carnegie Medal-winning author of Tamar.

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The Other Half of My Heart

Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.

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Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-algebra Who's Boss

The television actress and mathematics guru author of Math Doesn't Suck presents a pre-algebra primer for seventh- to ninth-graders, in an accessible reference that shares time-saving tricks, real-world examples, and detailed practice problems.

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