NEW NEW NEW

Easy Fiction

• So, What's It Like to Be a Cat? by Kuskin, Karla
• Hero and the Minotaur: The Fantastic Adventures of Hercules by Byrd, Robert
• Leonardo, the Terrible Monster by Willems, Mo
• Dangerous Crossing: The Revolutionary Voyage by Krensky, Stephen
• Michael Rosen's Sad Book by Rosen, Michael
• Stick Kid by Holwitz, Peter
• Now One Foot, Now the Other by dePaola, Tomie
• If You Give a Pig a Party by Numeroff, Laura Joffe
• Diary of a Spider by Cronin, Doreen
• Big Blue Spot by Holwitz, Peter
• My Little Pony by Shears, William
• Scribbleville by Holwitz, Peter
• How Much is That Doggie in the Window? by Trapani, Iza
• Mole Music by McPhail, David M.
• Little Miss Liberty by Robertson
• Ruby Sings the Blues by Daly, Niki
• Time to Pee! by Willems, Mo
• Time to Say "Please"! by Willems, Mo
• Web Files by Palatini, Margie
• Wiggle by Cronin, Doreen Din

Easy Non-Fiction

• Mr. Williams by Barbour, Karen
• Journey of the One and Only Declaration by St George, Judith
• Reaching for the Moon by Aldrin, Buzz
• Amazing You: Getting Smart about Your Private Parts by Saltz, Gail
• Anne Frank by Poole, Josephine
• Chickens May Not Cross the Road and Other and other crazy (but true) laws by Linz, Kathie

Juvenile Fiction

• Warriors#1 Into the Wild by Hunter, Erin W.
• Warriors #2 Fire and Ice by Hunter, Erin W.
• Warriors #5: A Dangerous Path by Hunter, Erin W.
• Whittington by Armstrong, Alan W.
• Andy Shane and the Very Bossy Dolores St by Jacobson, Jennifer Richard
• House of Tailors by Giff, Patricia Reilly
• Magyk by Sage, Angie
• Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid by McDonald, Megan
• Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg by Levine, Gail Carson
• Onts: Secrets of Dripping Fang (Book I) by Greenburg, Dan
• Urchin of the Riding Stars by McAllister, M. I.
• Scarecrow and His Servant by Pullman, Philip
• Ruby the Red Fairy by Meadows, Daisy
• Sunny the Yellow Fairy by Meadows, Daisy
• Amber the Orange Fairy by Meadows, Daisy
• Fern the Green Fairy by Meadows, Daisy
• Lake of Skulls by Stewart, Paul
• Owly Volume 1: The Way Home by Runton, Andy
• Clarice Bean Spells Trouble by Child, Lauren
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Rowling, J. K.
• Kipling's Choice by Spillebeen, Geert
• Eldest: Inheritance, Book II by Paolini, Christopher

Juvenile Non-Fiction

• Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash by Blumenthal, Karen
• Atlas of North America by de Blij, Harm
• Good Fight: How World War II Was Won by Ambrose, Stephen E.
• We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S by Hoose, Phillip M.
• George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War by Allen, Thomas B.
• York's Adventures with Lewis and Clark by Blumberg, Rhoda
• Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
• Encyclopedia of Native American Wars and Warfare by Kessel, William B.
• Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children by Kennedy, Caroline
• Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solvin by Walker, Sally M.
• Sibling Slam Book: What It's Really Like to have a brother or sister with special needs by Meyer, Don
• Stupid Crook Book by Gregory, Leland H., III
• Funny Bones: Comedy Games and Activities by Bany-Winters, Lisa
• You Must Be Joking!: Lots of Cool Jokes, by Brewer, Paul

Young Adult Fiction

• Not the End of the World by McCaughrean, Geraldine
• Little Lit It Was a Dark and Silly Night by Spiegelman, Art
• Little Lit Strange Stories for Strange K by Spiegelman, Art
• Elfquest: The Grand Quest - Volume Ten by Pini, Wendy
• Vampire Plagues I by Rooke, Sebastian
• Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie by Black, Holly
• Bone Volume 7 Ghost Circles by Smith, Jeff
• Bone Volume 8 Treasure Hunters by Smith, Jeff

Children's Audios

• Further Adventures of Hank the Cowdog by Erickson, John R.
• Magyk by Sage, Angie
• Eldest By Paolini, Christopher
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Rowling, J. K.
• Eldest by Paolini, Christopher

New DVD's

• Because of Winn-Dixie
• Tall Tales & Legends - Casey at Bat
• Tall Tales & Legends - Davy Crockett -
• Tall Tales and Legends - Pecos Bill

Contact Us

Phone: 687-7023

E-Mail: Webmaster

Check out the Children's Room at library this Fall!!

Back again by popular demand:

After-School Story-Hour

During our Fall story hours we are going use historical fiction as our guide and to dive into history to have a look at Egypt, Ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, the Aztecs, Victorian England, and Colonial America. Second, third and forth graders should join us after school from 3:30-4:30 on Wednesdays beginning October 5th. Kindergarteners and first graders should come to the library on Thursdays, 3:30-4:30, beginning October 6th.

Preschool Story Time

Barbara Davenport will once again be delighting 3 and 4 year olds with fabulous stories, songs and crafts. Story Time is set to begin Tuesday, October 4th at 10:00 in the morning.

Chess club: An informal gathering of chess enthusiasts meets every Third Monday 3:30-4:30 beginning October 17th. All levels and ages welcome. We have a few chessboards, some snacks, and a desire to play and learn a few techniques.

Sewing Circle: If you are just learning to sew or have some experience, we welcome you work on a few craft projects with us by hand and on a machine. Our sewing circle meets the first and fourth Mondays each month between 3:30-4:30.

Holly Day: Our annual Holiday Program will be held this year on Saturday, December 10th at 11:00. Join the Holly family and the Children's Room for holiday stories, crafts and snacks.

New This Fall!!!!

AUTHOR, AUTHOR, AUTHOR, AUTHOR!! Four local Juvenile and Young Adult authors will be sharing bits of their novels, answering questions, and autographing their books in a splendid evening of awesome talent. Meet the Authors Da Chen (China's Son and The Wandering Warrior), Laura Cunningham (The Midnight Diary of Zoya Blume), Maya Gold (Harriet the Spy, Double Agent, and Nina Shengold and the evening of October 14, 5:30 at the Marbletown Community Center. A light dinner will be served.

Writing Workshop: Laura Cunningham and Nina Sengold will offer a writing workshop for our aspiring teen writers. Join us at the Community Center October 15, from 11:00 - 1:00. (Lunch will be served.)

Interactive Mystery Night: Join your fellow detectives at the Stone Ridge Library in solving the mystery My Grandma's Gonna Kill Me! You must investigate the evidence scenes and carefully examine the evidence in order to solve the mystery. Detectives in grades 3-5 are welcome to attend. The date for the Mystery is November 18th, 6:00 pm. Dinner will be served during the introduction to the evenings proceedings.

Dungeons and Dragons in December! We are going to try our talents at this roll playing, interactive, creative, and fun filled game. Thursdays in December will be reserved for our teens ages 13 and up who are interested in getting involved in this adventure. Novice to experts welcome ... More info to be announced.

As always to register for any of these programs or to get more information please call Julianna at 687-2044 or check our website: www.stoneridgelibrary.org

To e-mail me: contact Julianna

See you soon!

Julianna Muth

Children's Service

Funny, But Boys Do Read

USA TODAY - By Greg Toppo

So how do you get all those boys to love reading?

For starters, you make them laugh.

Better yet, get a bunch of milk - 2%, and lots of it - and as they laugh it'll spew from their noses, run down their faces, their shirts and ... What, you're grossed out?

That's the point. If you're a boy and you're still reading, that's a start.

Whatever the reason, boys don't seem to read as much as - or as well as - girls. Even when they're young, girls read more proficiently, recent national figures show. The problem gets worse as kids get older.

Hoping to "make some noise for boys," popular children's author Jon Scieszka in 2002 began asking teachers, librarians and others to suggest titles of books that "boys really like."

His non-profit literacy initiative began posting them to the quirky GUYS READ Web site (www.guysread.com). Now Scieszka, co-creator of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, has collected 91 humorous stories and illustrations by male authors in a new book, Guys Write for GUYS READ. Book profits benefit the Web site.

A former elementary school teacher, Scieszka, 50, has written 23 books.

Q: Jon, you say being a father and a teacher taught you that boys and girls aren't the same, that we must do more to access "the male brain." How? A: The first thing we can do, and it's relatively easy to do, is expand that notion of what reading is. It's not just literary fiction. ... (Boys) like non-fiction, action-adventure, humor - science fiction has really come a long way - graphic novels, visual kinds of things.

Q: You say, "You can be literate in different ways." But aren't many teachers suspicious of magazines, comic books and the like? A: In school, that's not really seen as the Holy Grail of reading. That's more often stuff like Charlotte's Web. "Now, that's reading" - That's the message boys get, and I think they are going, "Well, if that's reading, I'm not too crazy about it."

Q: Your son had to read Little House on the Prairie in elementary school and hated it. Are we handicapping boys by giving them inappropriate books? A: That's what turned my son off as a younger reader and even in high school. ... The reluctant readers are so overwhelmed by the really serious books. I swear my son will never pick up Sula - if he even hears the words "Toni Morrison," he'll run out of the room. ... I think that scared him off all kinds of reading.

Q: But how do we ultimately get boys to read Toni Morrison? A: If we start someplace and say, "It's OK to read Captain Underpants, read Lemony Snicket, read Roald Dahl," I honestly think boys move on their own, and then they'll move to that stuff.

Q: The pieces in Guys Write (most were written for the collection) are really diverse. What were your instructions to the authors? A: I just asked them, "What's your memory of being a guy?" or "What do you think about being a guy?" I left it that open. I just told them, "Make it short."

Q: They're also very funny. A: There's something about boys and humor, and that stuff never gets recommended, for the most part, in schools. I can't think of a funny book that my kids ever had to read in school. But I grew up on that stuff.

Q: What has the response been so far to the book? A: It's been really fun to go out and speak to teachers and librarians. I was a little freaked out at first, thinking, "I'm going to get burned at the stake here. I'm speaking to audiences that are 90% women. Men are making 1½ times what they earn, and I'm telling them that boys are in trouble?" But you know what? They are so good about listening and going, "Oh yeah, my son is like that, my husband is like that - my father's like that." ... That's why boys are different."