August 2013 Library Events

Important Summer Reading Program Dates:

August 9 - Finale and last day to track reading time. Reading after August 9 does not count!

August 16 - Last day to turn in reading records

August 17 - Last day prize shop open

August 19 - Grand prize drawings

Tween/Teen For Your Eyes Only - Thursday, August 1 @ 1:30 p.m.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to join Agent K and the rest of our covert staff at For Your Eyes Only on 1 August 2013 at 1330 hours.  Be prepared to get your spy on.  This message will cease in 3...2...1... *end transmission*

Tail Waggin' Tutors with Divot - Saturday, August 3 @ 10:00 a.m.

Come to the library and read to a furry friend!  Sign up for a time slot at the Children's Desk.

The main objective of Tail Waggin’ Tutors is to provide a relaxed and dog-friendly atmosphere, which allows students to practice the skill of reading.  This program improves children's reading and communication skills by employing a powerful method: reading to an animal.  But not just any animal.  TDI companions are registered therapy animals who volunteer with their owners/handlers as a team, going to schools, libraries and many other settings as reading companions for children.  By sitting down next to a dog and reading, all threats of being judged are put aside and, instead, the child is able to relax and focus on reading. Reading and communication skills improve because the child is practicing the skill of reading, building self-esteem, and associating reading with something pleasant.  Visit www.tdi-dog.org to learn more. 

And don’t forget to sign up in person at the Children’s Desk or by phone at 262-728-3111 Ext. 117.  Divot and Missy can't wait to meet you!

Board Games - Monday, August 5 - 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Come down to the library for an afternoon of board games!  Snacks and games will be provided.

Cork Journals - Monday, August 5 @ 6:30 p.m. - Registration Required.

What a fun way to capture this summer's memories!  Join us as we make small journals using cork coasters, fun papers, stamps, ribbons, and beads.  We will supply all the materials.  We just need you and your imagination! For age 16 to adult.

Sand Art & Pet Rocks - Tuesday, August 6 @ 1:30 p.m.

Do you love the look of swirled colored sand?  Or maybe you've always wanted a pet, but didn't want the hassle of walking, feeding, or cleaning up after one?  If either of these ring true, then this is the program for you!  Join us to create beautiful works of sand art and/or stony friends that rock.  Or are rocks.  (Yep, that too.)

Family Reads in the Park - Wednesday, August 7 @ 1:30 p.m.

Enjoy the beautiful weather and celebrate in all things reading by joining us at Veteran's Park for Family Reads in the Park!  We'll provide the necessities: books, snacks, and blankets.  Or feel free to bring your own, if you'd like!

Tween/Teen Black Out Poetry - Thursday, August 8 @ 1:30 p.m.

Newspaper/Magazine + Marker = Poetry!  Join us to try your hand at creating blackout masterpieces.

Beatrix Potter Celebration - Friday, August 9 @ 10:00 a.m.

Here at APL, we LOVE Beatrix Potter.  Come help us celebrate how wonderful she is with food, crafts, a game, and stories!

Friends of Aram PL BIG Summer Book Sale - Friday and Saturday, August 9-10

Put yourself into a Delavan Daze when you visit the Friends of APL’s biggest book sale ever!  A preview of selected titles will be offered to members of the Friends group on Friday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.  Saturday morning at 8 a.m., the sale opens up to the public under the tent on the library’s front lawn, and runs until 3 p.m. In addition to a large selection of books, videos, audiobooks, and music, the sale includes book bags, stationery, t-shirts, and more.  Support your local library, find quality reading material and reference books, and discover some outstanding values at the sale of the summer!

Family Movie: James and the Giant Peach (PG) - Tuesday, August 13

Two shows @ 10:00 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six enormous insects he meets inside a giant peach.  Snacks will be provided. 

Sign up at the Children's Desk starting Friday, August 9 @ 9:00 a.m.

Family Movie: The Land Before Time (G) - Wednesday, August 14 

Two shows @ 1:30 p.m. & 4:00 p.m.

Five orphan dinosaurs travel in search of the Great Valley, while grieving the loss of their families and banding together to face the odds of survival. Snacks will be provided. 

Sign up at the Children's Desk starting Monday, August 11 @ 9:00a.m.

Family Movie: Holes (PG) - Thursday, August 15

Two shows @ 10:00 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune, a wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where the warden has the inmates digging holes for some mysterious reason.  Snacks will be provided. 

Sign up at the Children’s Desk starting Monday, August 11 @ 9:00 a.m.

Aram Book Club - Wednesday, August 21 @ 6:30 p.m.

Defending Jacob by William Landay

A 14-year-old boy is stabbed to death in the park near his middle school in an upper-class Boston suburb, and Assistant District Attorney Andy Barber takes the case, despite the fact that his son, Jacob, was a classmate of the victim. But when the bloody fingerprint on the victim’s clothes turns out to be Jacob’s, Barber is off the case and out of his office, devoting himself solely to defending his son. Even Barber’s never-before-disclosed heritage as the son and grandson of violent men who killed becomes potential courtroom fodder, raising the question of a “murder gene.” Within the structure of a grand jury hearing a year after the murder, Landay gradually increases apprehension. As if peeling the layers of an onion, he raises personal and painful ethical issues pertaining to a parent’s responsibilities to a child, to a family, and to society at large.

Guilty Pleasures Book Club - Monday, August 26 @ 6 p.m.

Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning

MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens.

When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death–a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone–Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed–a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae….

As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister’s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlane–an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women–closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac’s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book–because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their hands…. 

Family Reads in the Park - Wednesday, August 28 @ 1:30pm

Summer's coming to an end, so enjoy the beautiful weather and celebrate in all things reading by joining us at Veteran's Park for Family Reads in the Park!  We'll provide the necessities: books, snacks, and blankets.  Or feel free to bring your own, if you'd like!

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