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Foster City Library Children's Events
March 2019 |
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Try It Truck Festival
Wednesday, March 6, 3pm
Parking Lot
Join us to explore the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s Try It Truck! Children in grades K - 5 can explore hands-on stations that encourage children to use high and low tech tools and the engineering design process to solve challenges.
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Little Trumpet Mandarin Storytime and Craft
Sunday, March 10, 2pm
Children's Library
The 2nd Sunday of every month from 2-3pm on March 10th. Join us for Mandarin stories, songs, and activities the whole family will enjoy. This is an interactive experience centered around adult-child interactions and participation. Children of all ages are welcome and no registration is required. This program is presented entirely in Mandarin. An easy craft will follow storytime.
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Little Art Explorers
Wednesday, March 13, 10:30am
Children's Library
The 2nd Wednesday of the month at 10:30am on March 13th, caregivers and little artists age 2+ are invited to join us for process art projects. It will get messy, so please dress for mess! No registration is required for this program.
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Holi Performance by Pagrav Dance Studio
Sunday, March 17, 2 pm
Children's Library
Celebrated in India at the beginning of Spring, Holi is a vibrant festival of colors. Please join us and enjoy a traditional Indian dance! |
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Bingo Schmingo Concert
Wednesday March 20, 7 pm
Children's Library
Join us and sing along with Bingo Schmingo! This language-based music program is created by Kathleen Rushing, who will sing and interact with the young audience. This will be a creative musical, language and social experience, promoting phonemic awareness, rhythm and rhyme. Everybody is invited!
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Rangoli on a Paper Plate
Thursday, March 21 at 3pm
Children's Library
We will be making Rangoli patterns on paper plates with markers, crayons, and/or colored pencils. Rangoli is an art form originating from India. Patterns are created on the floor or the ground using materials such as colored rice, dry flour, colored sand or flower petals. Usually made during major festivals, Rangoli designs have been passed down from one generation to the next. Please join us in the tradition of creating Rangoli and keep an art form alive |
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Lego Club
Thursday, March 28, 3:30pm
Children's Library
The 4th Thursday of each month on March 28th. Children age 6 - 12 are invited to join us for our monthly Lego Club. We will read a few stories about a topic and then build a Lego creation related to what we have read. No registration is required.
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Lety Out Loud by Angela CervantesWhat it’s about: almost-6th-grader Lety Muñoz is eager to become the “shelter scribe” at the Furry Friends Animal Shelter, writing profiles for the each of the animals (and improving her English while she’s at it). The only problem? Grouchy classmate Hunter wants the job too.You might also like: author Angela Cervantes’ earlier book Gaby, Lost and Found, which features another Latina heroine who finds her strength and her voice while volunteering at the same animal shelter.
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Watch hollow
by Gregory Funaro
What it’s about: With their father’s clock shop failing, Oliver and Lucy Tinker know that their family has no choice but to accept a very strange offer: move to Blackford House in Watch Hollow so that their dad can fix its gigantic -- and possibly supernatural -- cuckoo clock.
Read it for: page-turning tension, magical clockwork, lurking evil, and an eerie, enchanted forest.
For fans of: Jonathan Auxier’s The Night Gardener. Journeying to an isolated small town to help their father repair a mysterious cuckoo clock in a once-grand manor, Lucy and Oliver discover that the magic within the house, and the animal guardians charged with protecting it, are in dire need of help. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Eventown by Corey Ann HayduWhat it’s about: Elodee and her family have just moved to Eventown, where it’s always sunny, the air tastes like blueberries, and everyone is perfectly content...everyone except Elodee. Why you might like it: The further you read in this suspenseful, bittersweet story, the more curious you’ll become about what lies beneath Eventown’s polished perfection, and what happened to Elodee’s family that made them move there.
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Right as Rain
by Lindsey Stoddard
What it’s about: Moving to New York City was supposed to be a fresh start for Rain’s family after her brother died, but Rain feels more stuck than ever: the city is loud and crowded, her parents are a mess, and her new neighbor Frankie does NOT want a new friend.
Why you might like it: You’ll feel for Rain as she grieves for her brother and tries to find her footing, both at school and at home.
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The lost girl by Anne Ursu What it’s about: After identical twins Iris and Lark are separated at school for the first time, protective, practical Iris can’t stop worrying about her shy, dreamy sister.
Featuring: an uncanny antique store; an extraordinary crow; a series of missing objects; and a sisterly bond that’s stronger than any monster.
Why you might like it: Though it’s set in the real world, The Lost Girl offers an intriguing blend of fantasy, mystery, and adventure.
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