Childrens

For April’s Grades 5-6 Book Club, we will be reading Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban.

“Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.”

Please be sure to pick up your copy of the book and register for Book Club at the Circulation Desk!

In April, we will be reading Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George for the Grades 3-4 Book Club. 

"While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack." - summary

Please be sure to pick up your library copy of the book and sign up for this month's session at the Circulation Desk.

Meet turtles, snakes, lizards, some small mammals, and Wally the Alligator up close and personal.  Dave's program combines learning interesting facts about his animals with the thrill of handling them.

Come join us for a Casey Farm presentation of Project Chick. The program is suitable for children ages 3 to 13. It includes a 40-minute presentation about chickens, a 15-minute talk on eggs and a 5-minute period where participants get to touch a live chicken and hold live chicks. Registration is not required for this Friends of the Jamestown Library program but space is limited to 100.

Watch an Animal World Experiences performance and stay to sign up for the Summer Reading Program (grab your BINGO card).

From lizard lounges to millipede mansions, learn about a variety of different shelters animals build and use. During this exciting program, you will begin to understand the many ways in which they are similar to as well as differrent than our own homes. Kids will also learn a new respect for nature when they realize how hard animals work on these basic shelters, just so they can survive in the wild.