Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Happy New Year's Eve! We are open today until 1:00 P.M. and will be closed tomorrow.

BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!

DO YOU HAVE BOOKS* THAT NEED A NEW HOME?

WE’LL TAKE THEM!!!

We are now accepting donations for our
Annual Winter Book Sale
to be held February 13th and 14th
(the second weekend in February).

Drop books off anytime the Library is open
from TODAY until February 10th.

*Sorry - we cannot accept encyclopedias, Reader’s Digest Condensed books,
textbooks or magazines.
Until next time...be safe, keep warm, and keep reading!
Dona

Friday, December 26, 2008

Hello All,

This is my first-ever blog posting! Wow! I am zooming right into the 21st Century! I will be keeping you posted on Arcade Free Library 'happenings' while Ginger is away...and may even help out upon her return.

The library will be closed on New Year's Day and will re-open Friday, January 2nd, @ 9 AM.

Be safe, keep warm, and keep reading!

Dona

Monday, November 10, 2008

And the Stacks of Food Keep Growing

Our patrons have been happy to settle their fines in this way. It helps them and helps those in need as well.

Foods for Fines final day was Saturday, November 22nd. Many thanks to all who contributed!

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Monday, November 03, 2008

Food Keeps Coming!

We had to get a larger table to hold the food that has been coming in. What a wonderful problem to have!

Thursday, October 30, 2008

FOOD FOR FINES Going Well

Our first week is going so well, we will soon need more space for our collected food.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Great Response to FOOD FOR FINES

We've just started, but we have already collected 60 food items in our month-long Food for Fines collection!!

Monday, October 27, 2008

FOOD FOR FINES From Oct 27 to Nov 22

Arcade Free Library will accept non-perishable food items in lieu of overdue fines during these dates.

One item of food equals up to $1.00 in fines.

Suggestions:
Canned Veggies
Canned Fruit
Pasta
Cereal
Tuna
Peanut Butter

This program does not include lost or damaged books.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

NEW HOURS

Beginning July 2, 2008 we will have new hours.

We will now be open on Wednesday from 9AM until 1PM and Friday from 9AM until 5PM.

Our hours will remain the same on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday (Noon until 8PM), and Saturday (10AM until 2PM).

Thursday, June 05, 2008

2008 Summer Reading List

5th Grade
Ribsy by Cleary, Beverly
Meet Josephine by Tripp, Valerie
Sign of the Beaver by Speare, Elizabeth
Midnight for Charlie Bone by Nimmo, Jenny
There’s an Owl in the Shower by George, Jean Craighead

6th Grade
Matilda by Dahl, Roald
Shiloh Season by Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
Because of Winn Dixie by DiCamillo, Kate
The Haymeadow by Paulson, Gary

7th Grade
Dirt Bike Racer by Christopher, Matt
Fever 1793 by Anderson, Laurie Halse
The Bearstone by Hobbs, Will
Weasel by DeFelice, Cynthia

8th Grade
The Outsiders by Hinton, S. E.

9th Grade
That Was Then, This is Now by Hinton, S. E.

9H
That Was Then, This is Now by Hinton, S. E.
The Secret Live of Bees by Kidd, Sue Monk

10th Grade
The Gospel According to Larry by Tashjian, Janet

10H
Killer Angels by Shaara, Michael
Wish You Well by Baldacci, David
The Red Badge of Courage by Crane, Stephen
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
A Separate Peace by Knowles, John
Animal Farm by Orwell, George
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Haddon, Mark
Three Weeks with My Brother by Sparks, Nicholas
The Kite Runner by Hosseini, Khaled

11th Grade
Tuesdays with Morrie by Albom, Mitch

11H
Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary
Nineteen Eighty-four by Orwell, George
Atonement by McEwan, Ian
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles
Jane Eyre by Brontë, Charlotte
Life of Pi by Martel, Yann
Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane
Pygmalion by Shaw, George Bernard
The Story of Lucy Gault by Trevor, William
Year of Wonders by Brooks, Geraldine

12th Grade
Five People You Meet in Heaven by Albom, Mitch

AP English Literature Summer Reading List

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Odyssey by Homer
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Native Son by Richard Wright
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
The Dead by James Joyce
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Hamlet by William Shakespeare