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Making It: Paint Lab
Wednesday, February 4, 4:00pm
Imagination Theater
Try out different types of painting methods. From Zentangles to Tape Resist Paintings, we will show you the steps to make it! All supplies will be provided.
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Morning Sun in Wuhan by Ying Chang CompestineWhat would you do if you were stuck home alone during the Pandemic? That is exactly what happened to Mei during lockdown in Morning Sun in Wuhan who was stuck alone in her aparment, but finds pride in cooking for her community. This book immediately brought me back to the Covid lockdown, and is very inspiring. I especially admire Mei for continuing on, even with the lockdown, and no end in sight. If you love a book about hope, resilience, and finding your true passions, then this is the book for you. Score: 8.2/10 Fiction Book Details: Realistic Fiction, Novel in Verse Format: Print --Reviewed by Carissa W. |
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Game Day
Thursday, January 15, 12:30-3:30pm
Imagination Theater
Join friends for tabletop card games, board games, and Nintendo Switch video games!
Light snacks will be served to attendees.
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Middle School Advisory
Group (MAG) Meeting
Wednesday, January 21, 4:00-5:00pm
Imagination Theater
Join the Middle School Advisory Group (MAG) to give library staff valuable feedback and assistance for programs, resources, and more! Get the chance to make a difference for middle school students at the library and earn volunteer experience.
For more information, please contact Children's Librarian Amanda Coleman at acoleman@arcadiaca.gov or 626-821-4379.
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Creative Hobbies
January is National Hobby Month! Explore new creative hobbies like sewing, painting, photography, drawing, and more with our list of books. |
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Cardboard Activity Lab
by Jemma Westing
Recycle household cardboard into incredible art projects that you can wear, share, and play with. Learn how to build and decorate more than 25 amazing creations, including costumes and castles, gifts and games, puppets and pirate ships.
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Creating with Ceramics: DIY Clay & Pottery Projects: DIY Clay & Pottery Projects
by Rebecca Felix
This how-to book provides readers with information they need to get started on a career in ceramics. Included are the history and cultural significance of ceramics, ceramics tools and techniques, ceramics career paths, and highlights of successful ceramic artists. Step-by-step projects help readers practice ceramics skills, and idea spreads inspire ways to apply what they've learned.
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Designing with Textiles: DIY Fabric & Fiber Projects: DIY Fabric & Fiber Projects
by Lauren Kukla
This how-to book provides readers with information they need to get started on a career in textile arts. Included are the history and cultural significance of textiles, textile tools and techniques, career paths in textiles, and highlights of successful textile artists. Step-by-step projects help readers practice textile skills, and idea spreads inspire ways to apply what they've learned.
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Designing with Graphic Arts: DIY Visual Projects: DIY Visual Projects
by Ruthie Van Oosbree
This how-to book provides readers with information they need to get started on a career in graphic arts. Included are the history and cultural significance of graphic art, graphic arts tools and techniques, graphic arts career paths, and highlights of successful graphic artists. Step-by-step projects help readers practice graphic arts skills, and idea spreads inspire ways to apply what they've learned.
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Crafting with Wood: DIY Woodworking Projects: DIY Woodworking Projects
by Rebecca Felix
This how-to book provides readers with information they need to get started on a career in woodworking. Included are the history and cultural significance of woodworking, woodworking tools and techniques, woodworking career paths, and highlights of successful woodworkers. Step-by-step projects help readers practice woodworking skills, and idea spreads inspire ways to apply what they've learned.
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Engineering with Circuits: DIY Motor & Robotics Projects: DIY Motor and Robotics Projects
by Elsie Olson
This how-to book provides readers with information they need to get started on a career in electronics. Included are the history and cultural significance of circuits, electronics tools and techniques, career paths in electronics, and highlights of successful engineers and inventors. Step-by-step projects help readers practice using circuits, and idea spreads inspire ways to apply what they've learned.
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Making with Metal: DIY Metalworking Projects: DIY Metalworking Projects
by Jessica Rusick
This how-to book provides readers with information they need to get started on a career in metalworking. Included are the history and cultural significance of metalworking, metalworking tools and techniques, metalworking career paths, and highlights of successful metalworkers. Step-by-step projects help readers practice metalworking skills, and idea spreads inspire ways to apply what they've learned.
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Marvel Crafts: 100+ Activities and Art Projects Inspired by Marvel Comics
by Kelly Knox
Enjoy making creations themed around your favorite Marvel superheroes, including ... Avengers masks, Doc Ock's pool noodle tentacles, Ms. Marvel's stretchy slime, Captain America's shield flying disc. This activity book features extension tips to add to your creations, handy template pages at the back of the book, and beloved characters such as Spider-Man, Black Panther, Ms. Marvel, Hulk, Black Widow, Captain America, and many more.
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A Method for Magic and Misfortune
by Craig Kofi Farmer
A boy discovers magic -- along with a hidden darkness -- in his town in this propulsive and heartfelt middle grade novel by Craig Kofi Farmer, author of Kwame Crashes the Underworld.
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Donutella Hamachi
and the Library Avengers
by Kim Chi
For twelve-year-old Korean immigrant Jae Han, the library is more than a place to check out books. It's a safe space to work on his comic book featuring drag superhero Donutella Hamachi, play video games to improve his English, and befriend other outcast kids sheltering among the stacks. When the mayor announces plans to demolish the building and pave a mall parking lot, Jae Han pleads with his friend the librarian to intervene. But even if the mayor doesn't shutter the library, Ms. Henny reveals, a funding deficit will. Called to action, Jae Han rallies his ragtag group of friends to halt the destruction of their haven. Can they-with help from the sparkling Donutella Hamachi-unite long enough to defeat the slime-shooting blobfish enveloping screaming citizens in goo (i.e., ace a fundraising campaign)?
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Graciela in the Abyss
by Meg Medina
In the deepest recesses of the ocean, Graciela--once an ordinary girl--now makes sea glass and assists her friend, Amina, as she welcomes newly awakened sea ghosts from their death sleep. Though Graciela's spirit is young, she has lived at the bottom of the ocean for more than a hundred years. Meanwhile, in the mortal world on land, twelve-year-old Jorge Leon works in his family's forge. He's heard of the supernatural spirits living beneath the ocean's waves--tales that do nothing to quell his fear of the water. But when Jorge discovers a hand-wrought harpoon with the power to spear a sea ghost, he knows he must destroy it any way he can. When the harpoon is accidentally reunited with its vengeful creator, unlikely allies Graciela and Jorge have no choice but to work together to keep evil spirits from wreaking havoc on both the living and the dead. If only the answer to saving what they care about didn't lie within the depths of the abyss.
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The Extremely Embarrassing
Life of Lottie Brooks
by Katie Kirby
A Warning to Future Readers: Hi, I'm Lottie Brooks! I'm 11 (and 3/4) years old and this is my diary. Before you read, though, you should be warned. This book is going to include mortifying moments like bra shopping with your mom and your seven-year-old brother, showing up to class with cereal in your hair, watching your dad sing horrible karaoke, standing awkwardly at your first school dance, and so many more humiliating occurrences. Turn away now if you'd rather not read about such excruciating experiences. It would be entirely understandable and highly recommended!
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The Freedom Seeker
by Ruchira Gupta
Twelve-year-old Simi Singh's life in Northern India is filled with love, family traditions, and ordinary worries about hockey competitions, school exams, and avoiding the snide remarks of her class nemesis. But when a single rock carrying a note crashes through their window during their Id celebration, Simi's life will shatter. Her Sikh father and Muslim mother's interfaith marriage is becoming a target of violent vigilantes. Faced with rising threats, they must make an impossible choice: stay and risk their lives, or flee their homeland. Simi's father is the first of them to make the journey to the U.S., but when their petition to be reunited in America is denied, Simi and her mother are left with no choice but to attempt a perilous crossing through the Arizona desert with the help of a smuggler.
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On Guard!
by Cassidy Wasserman
Twelve-year-old Katie is having trouble adapting to a new school year after her parents separate and her best friend is no longer her best friend, but maybe fencing club will give her a place to be herself.
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The Forest of a Thousand Eyes
by Frances Hardinge
One thing Feather knows to be true is that given the chance, the Forest will devour her home just like it's devoured everything else in her world. Her small community lives in a section of the crumbling Wall that runs through and above the trees, doing everything they can to keep the Forest out. When a stranger tricks Feather and makes off with her people's precious spyglass, she has no choice but to go after him, coming face-to-face with the Forest's dangers--and to revelations beyond her wildest imagination.
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Candace, the Universe, and Everything
by Sherri L. Smith
Thirteen-year-old Candace discovers a portal in her locker that connects her across time and space with two other women who also had the same locker as girls, and the three go on to investigate the origins of the portal.
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Provides accurate and current information on topics.
WorldBook Timelines provides historical context and timelines for various topics and events. |
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Access the True Book series in the form of eBooks. This is a great resource for students research on science or social studies topics.
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Access an online encyclopedia as well as other resources for state and country reports. |
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The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story
by Allan Wolf
Home to catfish and crawdads, shrimp and spoonbills, even a gator or two, Lake Peigneur--pronounced 'your pain,' only backward--bustles also with human life. Each day, the bean-shaped freshwater lake and its shores hum with folks going about their work--a devoted gardener's apprentice and his dogs, fishermen, oilmen drilling at Well P-20, and the fifty-one miners employed by the Diamond Crystal Salt Mines. For most, November 20, 1980 began as 'just another day on the lake.' But as the lake itself reflects, humans had, over time, left behind a honeycomb of salt highways deep beneath its surface, and water and salt mix all too well.
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The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien (a Graphic Novel)
by John Hendrix
The rich worlds of C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have enchanted readers both young and old for generations. But before they created these literary landmarks, Lewis and Tolkien were simply two friends who shared a love of stories. The Mythmakers chronicles their lives, from their horrific tour in the trenches of World War I, their first meeting at Oxford in 1929, and the literary discussions of the Inklings, to World War II, the publications of their works, and their legacies. Their personal stories are so intertwined that neither can be easily told without the other....
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Are There Rainbows in Space?: A Colorful Compendium of Seriously Cool Science
by Sheila Kanani
The science of colors is hard at work all the time--from ultraviolet light to the baby blue tint of the sky. Readers will learn tons of interesting scientific facts about color and its whys and hows--like why blood is red, how hippos keep cool, and how some animals can change color to hide from predators. Bursting with incredible illustrations and some seriously cool science, this book is sure to dazzle both nature lovers and reluctant readers alike.
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Music and How It Works: The Complete Guide for Kids
by DK
The book looks at music throughout history, beginning with the first known melody from the Fertile Crescent and covering modern music phenomena, from K Pop to hip-hop. Instruments and genres from across the world are featured, with playlists of key pieces encouraging kids to look up pieces to hear for themselves. STEAM spreads delve into the psychology and math behind music, from how it affects our mood to how it can improve our minds.
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Autism
by Sarah Eason
In the United States, one in 68 children has been identified with ASD, more commonly known as autism. That is equal to one person with autism for every two classrooms of students in a school. Autism explains that the disorder has a serious impact on the lives of those who are affected by it. It reveals that people with autism process information differently from most people, experience the world and people around them differently, and often struggle with sensory difficulties and social interaction. The book provides detailed scientific information about the disorder, from what causes it to symptoms, treatments, and cutting-edge research. It also explores what life is like day-to-day for people who live with autism and the coping strategies that help them. This insightful title will provide readers with a thorough understanding of autism and help them develop a sensitivity toward those who experience it. It is also a source of invaluable information for people living with autism.
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The Spindle of Fate
by Aimee Lim
Read The Spindle of Fate by local author Aimee Lim, then come to our program to discuss the book, learn about her writing and publishing experience, ask questions, and enjoy some pizza.
Attendees will also get a chance to win a free copy of the sequel, The Thread of Destiny.
Copies of the books have been generously donated by MacMillan Publishing Group.
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To check on the availability of an item, click on the cover to go to our online catalog. Thanks for reading!! |
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