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Meet Animals, Play Legos or Watch a Movie During “Mud Week” at the Library!

Come in from the cold during the February winter "Mud Week" vacation and play Legos, meet some animals or watch a movie! Below are details on the Library's afternoon activities on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, February 16, 17 and 19. (The Library will be closed on Monday, February 15 in observance of the Presidents Day…

Bookmark: A Closeup of the Library’s New 2nd-Friday Book Club

If you’ve ever wanted to be part of the Town Library’s Book Club but couldn’t make it out of the house on Thursday nights to attend, there’s a wonderful new option: the “2nd-Friday” Book Club. True to the name, the new club meets on the second Friday of every month at the civilized time of…

Young Adult Book Review: “Bone Gap” by Laura Ruby

Corn fields. Farmers claim that you can hear the corn grow. And the corn does grow – tall and full –so thick that a person can appear or disappear between the rows. In the underpopulated town of Bone Gap, a beautiful girl from Poland appears in the empty barn of two young brothers, Sean and…

Pelham Reads Through This Sunday, Plus the Story Behind Pelham Reads’ “Alice in Wonderland”

For Pelham Reads Activities, see below. For the full Bookmark story explaining how Alice in Wonderland came to be, scroll down. PELHAM READS ALICE ACTIVITIES "AliceFest" Kickoff Family Extravaganza Saturday, November 7, 1:30 – 4:30 p.m., Town of Pelham Public Library “Pelham Reads” starts with a kickoff celebration at the Town of Pelham Public Library during the day and an Alice-themed Studio…

Second-Friday Book Club Discusses “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”

Can’t make it to the Library’s Thursday night After-Dark Book Club? You’ll be pleased to know that the Library has formed a Second-Friday Book Club, which meets on the second Friday of each month at 10:30 a.m., discussing both fiction and non-fiction titles. As with the nighttime book club, the group will meet from September…

It’s Banned Books Week — Borrow One of Them at The Library!

This week, through Saturday, October 3, is the American Library Association's annual Banned Books Week, which highlights books that have been challenged or outright banned -- and celebrates the freedom to read. Come to the Library and check one of them out, and pick up lists of banned books, bookmarks and other promotional and educational…

Bookmark: As the Pelham Library Turns 20, Here’s How It Started

By Catharine P. Taylor It can be easy to take a local institution such as the Town of Pelham Public Library for granted. "Every town has a library, right?” But many newer residents may not know it was a decades-long effort for the Town of Pelham to establish its own Library, a campaign that ended 20…

Juvenile Book Review: “Kissing in America” by Margo Rabb

Families. They take care of us and they give us grief, sometimes in equal measure. For Eva, grief has contracted her heart since the death of her father two years ago in a plane accident. Her mother has thrown out every reminder of her father and refuses to talk about him. Eva tells everyone her…

Join Librarian Lilly for Picture Book Theater, Mondays in July at 2!

Join Librarian Lilly to act out “hero” and “heroine” stories, Mondays from 2 - 2:45 p.m. all through July. This program is for children ages 5 - 8, and no registration is required. June 29: Where the Wild Things Are July 6: The Three Billy Goats Gruff July 13: The Little Red Hen July 20: Stone Soup July 27:…

Bookmark: Every Hero Has a Story This Summer at the Library

This summer, the Town of Pelham Public Library will be teeming with heroes—even more so than usual—as it launches its annual Summer Reading Program. The theme for this summer, “Every Hero Has a Story,” will be reflected in activities from late June through August, so put on your cape and come to the Library! In addition…