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In Memory of Our Children’s Librarian, Lilly Hecker

NewsMarch 13, 2019291Views 0Likes 0Comments

It is with great sadness that the Library shares the news that former Children’s Services Librarian Lilly Hecker has passed away. She died peacefully at home on March 12 with her husband, Sid, by her side. “Miss Lilly,” as she was known to many Pelham children, worked at the Library for most of its history, joining…

Juvenile Book Review: “Raymie Nightingale” by Kate DiCamillo

Children's Book NewsMay 31, 2016332Views 0Likes 0Comments

Nightingale is not Raymie’s real last name, but it describes her well. Like Florence Nightingale, Raymie knows how to shed light and rescue the needy. She and two other girls meet at the home of a baton winner in order to learn how to twirl. Somehow, Raymie convinces herself that if she becomes a champion…

YA Book Review: “The Hired Girl” by Laura Amy Schlitz

Children's Book NewsApril 22, 2016443Views 0Likes 0Comments

Some of us complain about having it rough. Really? Take a look at fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs – the only girl in her house -- who lives on a poor farm in Pennsylvania with her father and older brothers during the early 1900s. Here is her daily schedule: scrub and sweep the floor, clean out the…

Bookmark: Meet the Library Staff—What You Probably Didn’t Know About Your Favorite Librarians

NewsFebruary 19, 2016364Views 0Likes 0Comments

Maybe you only stop by the Town of Pelham Public Library occasionally, but, nonetheless, the people who work there are probably familiar. They are always ready to help with a school project, give book recommendations, or to teach you how to use its many e-resources. There are five full time staff-members, nine part-time staff members…

YA Book Review: “All the Bright Places” By Jennifer Niven

Children's Book NewsDecember 11, 2015314Views 0Likes 0Comments

They meet on a narrow ledge six stories above the ground in the bell tower of their high school. At first, only one student notices, but dismisses the image because he sees only Theodore “Freak” Finch, a known nutcase. But wait! There is a girl on the other side of the bell tower. It is…

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

UncategorizedNovember 11, 2015499Views 0Likes 0Comments

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…

Bookmark: Two Pelham Teams Competed in Battle of the Books

Children's Book News, EventsNovember 5, 2015335Views 0Likes 0Comments

Do you know how many walking sticks were in King Tut’s tomb? Or what Marie Antoinette’s last words were? The answers are deep within the pages of How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg—and they were just two of the questions that were asked during the Battle of the Books,…