Musician Duke Otherwise Kicks Off Summer Reading
Families and children of all ages are invited to join us when children’s musician Duke Otherwise stops by all the East Central Regional Library branches beginning June 6. With his guitar, tap shoes and distinct baritone, Duke sings hilarious and imaginative songs that all ages will delight in together. Each performance is filled with audience […]
ECRL Outreach Presents Professor Marvel
The 2017 ECRL Outreach summer reading program, Reading by Design, kicks off with a special show for kids of all ages. Join us for non-stop action as Professor Marvel brings books to life with magic, story-telling and comedy. Selected children’s books will be interwoven in to this magical presentation filled with audience participation and more. […]
Summer Reading Closing Program
Comic Magician Jerry Frasier 2016 Read – For the Win! Fun and laughs happen fast when comic magician, Jerry Frasier, comes to the library! With a jolt of imagination and amazement, Jerry encourages all ages to exercise their magical minds. This national entertainer wows audiences all over the country, from New York to L. A. […]
SYNC eAudiobooks Week 11
e.E. Charlton-Trujillo’s heroine, Fat Angie, seems to have enemies on every side now that her sister has been captured while serving in Afghanistan. Bullies at school, a bullying mother at home, and a reality becoming much less acceptable to Angie than her carefully guarded hopes that her sister will come home have put her into an […]
SYNC Week 10
Week 10’s pair of eAudiobooks feature cities in the aftermath of devastation—and how picking up and starting over can be achieved even when the present seems to be a nightmare. Symphony for the City of the Dead by M.T. Anderson In September of 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one […]
SYNC Week 9 eAudiobooks
Finish off Audiobook month by downloading these titles! You are what you eat in SYNC Week 9. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (Young Readers Edition) The New York Times bestseller that’s changing America’s diet is now perfect for young readers. Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and […]
SYNC Week 6
Continue celebrating Audiobook Month with 2 new SYNC titles! This week, our pair of teen audiobooks asks that we consider how our understanding of a story from the narrator’s point of view must expand when the story comes from two different narrators with two different viewpoints of their shared world. I’ll Give You the Sun […]
Dare to Hope
Happy audiobook month! Start listening with eAudiobook titles from SYNC Week 5! UPDATE FROM SYNC: SYNC listeners – we are sorry to report there was an issue with the original WORDS IN THE DUST audio files in that the final track was missing. If you have already downloaded the WORDS IN THE DUST audiobook and do not […]
SYNC Audiobooks 2016 Week 4
Finding your own voice may require moving beyond believing what you thought you knew of yourself in this weeks’ AudiobookSYNC pair of free titles. In Tamara Ireland Stone’s Every Last Word and Gregory Maguire’s Egg & Spoon we find stories about girls who seem to be nearly overcome by their situations, only to discover the power of their own […]
SYNC Audiobooks Week 3
All About the Boys This week’s SYNC eAudiobooks are 100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith and This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff. In both stories, bright teenage boys cope with ruptures in their families. Download the free eAudiobook pair from SYNC. Adventurous, full of bravado, self-centered: is this really what teenaged boys are made of? In this week’s pair of free audiobooks, […]