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Homework Help: Tuesdays and Thursdays After School, Grades K – 8

EventsOctober 25, 2016238Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Library's Homework Help program is held every Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30 - 4:45pm, except for school holidays and when Pelham Memorial High School students have statewide testing. Check the events calendar for more complete information. (PMHS students volunteer to run this program.) Homework Help is for children in grades K – 8, and students…

YA Book Review: “Caravaggio Signed in Blood” By Mark David Smith

Children's Book NewsOctober 24, 2016387Views 0Likes 0Comments

In the work of historical fiction Caravaggio Signed in Blood, the Renaissance artist is depicted as a brawling, unrepentant, street fighter in Rome, spoiling for his next battle. Equipped with a flashing sword and an eye to mayhem, he encounters the influential nobility and promptly slays one of them in a street clash. Now he is…

Spanish-English Story Time Is Back at the Library!

Events, NewsOctober 11, 2016297Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Town of Pelham Public Library is pleased to announce that Spanish-English Story Time has returned to the Library and will be held every other Saturday morning. Further dates during the remainder of 2016 include November 12 and December 10. (There will be no Spanish-English Story Time on November 26 and December 24 because both dates…

Juvenile Book Review: “Full of Beans” by Jennifer L. Holm

Children's Book News, UncategorizedOctober 3, 2016599Views 0Likes 0Comments

Eighty years ago, a nickel was worth something. One nickel could buy candy, a ticket to a movie, and real food for a meal. It was during the Great Depression, and life was far from ideal even in Key West, Florida. Huge mounds of smelly garbage piled up, people were out of work, and kids went…

Bookmark: As Novel Night Approaches, How Past Dinner Hosts Brought Books to Life

NewsSeptember 28, 2016332Views 0Likes 0Comments

Every two years in the fall, Pelham is blanketed with something in addition to falling leaves: invitations to Novel Night, the biennial fundraiser by the Friends of the Town of Pelham Public Library. This year, Novel Night will be held on Saturday, November 19. It’s unusual among benefit events because its centerpiece is more than two…

Author Talk: Paul Freedman’s “Ten Restaurants That Changed America” on October 24

EventsSeptember 20, 2016321Views 0Likes 0Comments

Local author Paul Freedman -- who is also the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University -- will return to the Library on Monday, October 24, to discuss his new book, Ten Restaurants That Changed America. The book takes readers on a coast-to-coast culinary journey -- from Howard Johnson’s to the Four Seasons to Berkeley's Chez…

Bookmark: This September, Is It Time to Join a Book Club? The Pelham Library Has Two Great, Flexible Options

Adult Book ClubsAugust 31, 2016310Views 0Likes 0Comments

Many of us equate summertime with the chance to read a good book—or two—but find that the hectic days that start in September pre-empt us from doing what we’d really like to do—participate in a book club. The Town of Pelham Public Library has an answer for that: its two adult book clubs, which are open…

K-Day Is Coming! Kindergartners Can Get Their First Library Cards on Saturday, September 24!

EventsAugust 16, 2016226Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Pelham Public Library's K-Day is an annual event when children entering kindergarten can get their first library cards. This year, it will be held on September 24 from 12:30 - 3:30pm. Getting a Library Card is only one part of K-Day. Emilio, our beloved clown, will once again be sculpting amazing balloon forms and there will…

Young Adult Nonfiction Book Review: “The Boys Who Challenged Hitler” By Phillip Hoose

Children's Book NewsAugust 15, 2016977Views 0Likes 0Comments

On April 9, 1940, Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish Army put up little resistance, and by that afternoon Germany occupied Denmark. The German government promised the Danes that life would go on normally if they didn’t resist their new overlords -- and the Danes accepted this Faustian bargain. Their cities were left intact and their…

Juvenile Book Review: “Wolf Hollow” by Lauren Wolk

Children's Book NewsJuly 12, 20161KViews 0Likes 0Comments

How we treat each other does matter; it can sometimes determine who lives and who dies. Betty Glengarry is a force of evil who suddenly arrives one day in the small Pennsylvania farming town of Wolf Hollow. Everywhere she goes, she spreads lies and pain. Her chief victim is a younger girl, Annabelle, whom she…