Blaine County Library

The library will close at 5:00 p.m. today, due to staffing issues. Teen Scene for grades 9 through 12 will be from 5:00 to 7:00 this evening. There will be activities and plenty of food and drinks.

We had a great turnout for our Summer Reading Kickoff. Winners of the Shark Week prizes were Landon Minnis, Knut Halingstad, Claire Buck, and Hannah Halingstad. Congratulations to the winners. If your children have not signed up for the Summer Reading Program yet, there is still plenty of time. For every 2 hours read, kids can enter their name for a prize. There will be a prize for Preschool/K students, and 4 prizes for grades 1 through 8. High School students and adults will be able to enter a drawing for gift certificates to Rads, Bikini Coffee, and The Creamery for every book they read.

Stop in and look at our children’s area. Staff decorated the entire area as an ocean to celebrate our Summer Reading theme, Oceans of Possibilities. We are thankful to Town Pump for providing our library with a Keep Kids Reading grant that will enable us to have a spectacular Summer Reading Program! We have lots of fun activities planned this summer. Beat the Heat Movies will be at 1:30 on Mondays. Hangout for 7th and 8th grade students will be on Mondays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays at 10:30 will be Story Time for ages 6 and under. Tuesdays at 1:30 will be our regular Summer Reading program for school aged kids with stories and activities. Hangout for 5th and 6th grade students will be held Tuesdays from 3:30 –4:30 p.m. Wednesdays we will have a Story Walk by the pool with take home crafts. Every other Wednesday we will have Teen Scene from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Thursdays we will have LEGO/STEAM Club from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Accelerated Reading tests are now available at the library. Points earned during the summer are added to the student’s record in the fall.

Research shows that summer can take a real toll on a student’s knowledge and skills-from mathematics to reading development. Summer learning loss contributes substantially to the achievement gap between low-income and high-income students in America. Thankfully, Summer Reading Programs can help keep kids’ minds engaged long after the last school bell rings. Encourage your child to take part in the Summer Reading Program to prevent the Summer Slide. Programs will run through the end of July. Kids will have until August 12th to turn in time logs.

Surf’s Up will be the movie Monday June 20th at 1:30. It is rated PG and runs one hour and 25 minutes.

We have two non-fiction books ready to go this week. “Twenty-First Century Monetary Policy” by Ben Bernanke takes readers inside the Federal Reserve, explaining what it does and why. “Ten Thing Every Child With Autism Wishes You Knew” by Ellen Notbohm focuses on ten core characteristics of autism while expanding on how our own perspectives and actions shape the life of our child and ourselves, now and for years to come.

If you are looking for a beach read, we have “The Summer Place” by Jennifer Weiner, and “This Time Tomorrow” by Emma Straub. We have 3 novels about books: “The Book Woman’s Daughter” by Kim Richardson, “The Boardwalk Bookshop” by Susan Mallery, and “The Bloomsbury Girls” by Natalie Jenner. If thrillers are more your speed, we have “Best Kept Secrets” by Gwen Florio, “Take Your Breath Away” by Linwood Barclay, and “The Lioness” by Chris Bohjalian.