You are cordially invited to enjoy Multicultural Music from Around the World.  This fun event will take place on Tuesday, July 31 at 6:00 PM in the Community Room of the Edenvale Branch Library.

Let's take a trip around the world through music. Don and Shane will bring music and instruments from around the world for a fun and educational experience!   

This delightful musical program is part of the 2012 Summer Reading Celebration, and is made possible by the generosity of the Friends of the Edenvale Branch Library.

Come to the Edenvale Branch Library on Wednesday July 25th 2012 at 7:00 PM for a fun and educational program. 

Girls from Girl Scout Troop 60929 invite children and families to listen to the book The Three R's: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle by Núria Roca.  After the book reading, children and families are invited to participate in some fun craft projects, including reusing toilet paper rolls by turning them into octopi and trees.    

A big thanks to Girls from Girl Scout Troop 60929 for presenting three fun and educational programs for children and families. 

Girls from Girl Scout Troop 60929 invite children and families to participate in some green activities, including: reusing toilet paper rolls by turning them into flowers, a game wheel about recycling, and a tree poster in which children can decorate leaves with a picture or description of what they will do to go green.  This special program will take place at the Edenvale Branch Library on Monday, July 23rd, 2012 at 4:00 PM.

Moon Over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool, is the story of a young twelve year old, Abilene, who is sent to live with her father's friend in Manifest, a small lazy town in Kansas.  She feels abandoned by the father she loves and is at loss for why he would do this.  She only knows that her father had changed after her sickness, when she had an accident and her leg became infected.  So, now, alone, in Manifest, the town where her father considers home, Abilene is trying to sort our her father's past and his identity and her own destiny.  Through the course of a summer, she discovers Manifest's history, her father's history, and her own place in Manifest's destiny.

A Newberry Award Winner for 2011, Moon Over Manifest is, in my opinion, a simply wonderful book, but I would not recommend it for everyone, because its narrative is sophisticated and complex with three threads which the author skillfully weaves to reveal a narrative which is a colorful depiction of life in small town Kansas.  This book is a book for a good reader, probably a girl, and for someone around 6th or 7th grade because the main character is young, but the scope of the story is big and the narrative complex.