ot sure what to read next? Are you struggling with a reluctant reader at home?
Our youth librarian is offering reading recommendations for kids and teens (Grades K-12) tailored to each individual reader.
FIND THE BOOK GENIE HERE.
And just in time, we are offering Take-Out at the library!
If you want physical copies of the titles, you can call the library or put the books on hold online.… Read more Book Genie: Reading Recommendations from our own Youth Librarian
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ot sure what to read next? Are you struggling with a reluctant reader at home?
Our youth librarian is offering reading recommendations for kids and teens (Grades K-12) tailored to each individual reader.
FIND THE BOOK GENIE HERE.
And just in time, we are offering Take-Out at the library!
If you want physical copies of the titles, you can call the library or put the books on hold online.… Read more
ot sure what to read next? Are you struggling with a reluctant reader at home?
Our youth librarian is offering reading recommendations for kids and teens (Grades K-12) tailored to each individual reader.
FIND THE BOOK GENIE HERE.
And just in time, we are offering Take-Out at the library!
If you want physical copies of the titles, you can call the library or put the books on hold online.… Read more 
If you found yourself stuck at home before you could sign up for a library card, fill out this form to receive a temporary library card number. At this time, this service is for Atkinson residents only.
Your library card number will allow you to access all our online resources including Hoopla, Overdrive, Universal Online Learning, Transparent Language Learning, Kanopy. Between them all, we have more than enough resources to… 
Teens and tweens: Make your voice heard! Check out the nominated titles for this year’s Great Stone Face, Flume and Isinglass awards. Nomination and voting is all t/ween-run. So seize your moment and pick your winner!
The Isinglass Award
(Gr 7-8)
Check out the nominees and vote HERE.
ISINGLASS nominees that can be found online through Overdrive:
Saints and Misfits
Gunslinger Girl
Refugee
Librarian of Auschwitz… 
The book of the month is Unwind by Neal Shusterman.
After the Second Civil War, the Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. However, a loophole allows parents to retroactively get rid of a teenager through a process called ‘unwinding.”Three teens defy the system and run away from their unwinding: Connor, a rebel… 
Join us for the documentary film about Alice Tregay’s story: Ordinary people effecting extraordinary change for human rights. Five decades of fearless activism and the continuing relevance of Dr. Martin Luther King to the ongoing fight for justice.
Craig Dudnick is a 1980 graduate of Northwestern University. In 1982, he received a national award for his camerawork on the syndicated television program, PM Magazine. The following year, he founded Imagine… 
We’ll be using library iPads and StopMotion Studio to make our very own stop motion movies. StopMotion animation has been used to create classics like Wallace and Gromit and new hits like Lego Movie. Small toys, characters, and props will be provided, but you are welcome to bring one or two of your own. Bring a friend too, but be sure to register for the event online. Space is limited.… 
The book of the month is Sold by Patricia McCormick.
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away… 
The book of the month is Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen.
3:47 a.m. That’s when they come for Wren Clemens. She’s hustled out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced march into the desert. This is what happens to kids who’ve gone so far off the rails, their parents don’t know what to do with them any more. This… 
This months book is Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork.
Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear–part of the autism-like impairment no doctor has been able to identify–and he’s always attended a special school where his differences have been protected. But the summer after his junior year, his father demands that Marcelo work in his law firm’s mailroom in order to experience ‘the real world.’ …