Join Linda every Saturday for the next five weeks for crafts, stories and kid-friendly activities. Registration is not required.

Celebrate the ordinary wonders of everyday science with these hands-on resources:

Albee, Sarah. Clever Trevor. Kane Press, 2003.
Aronin, Miriam. Mangled by a Hurricane! Bearport Publishing, 2010.
Blair, Beth. The Everything Kids’ Gross Mazes Book: Wind Your Way through Hours of Twisted Turns, Sick Shortcuts, and Disgusting Detours! Adams Media, 2006.
Branzei, Sylvia. Grossology. Price Stern Sloan, 2002.
Breen, Mark and Kathleen Friestad. The Kids’ Book of Weather Forecasting. Ideals, 2008.
Brown, Cynthia Light. Amazing Kitchen Chemistry Projects You Can Build Yourself. Nomad Press, 2008.
Chatterton, Martin. Yuck! The Grossest Joke Book Ever! Kingfisher, 2004.
Clarke, Ginjer L. Gross Out! Animals That Do Disgusting Things (All Aboard Science Reader). Grosset & Dunlap, 2006.
Frazee, Marla. Roller Coaster. Harcourt, 2003.
Gutman, Dan. The Talent Show. Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Hart, Alison. Anna’s Blizzard. Peachtree Publishers, 2005.
Mackill, Mary. Special Animal Senses. Heinemann-Raintree, 2005.
Markovics, Joyce. Blitzed by a Blizzard! Bearport Publishing, 2010.
Miller, Connie Colwell. Disgusting Animals. Capstone Press, 2007.
Morlock, Lisa. Track That Scat! Sleeping Bear Press, 2012.
Nankivell-Aston, Sally and Dorothy Jackson. Science Experiments with Simple Machines. Turtleback, 2000. Nargi, Lela. The Honeybee Man. Random House, 2011.
Person, Stephen. Struck by Lightning! Bearport Publishing, 2010.
Pilkey, Dav. Dog Breath. Scholastic Paperbacks, 2004.
Prelutsky, Jack. It’s Raining Pigs & Noodles. Greenwillow Books, 2005.
Prince, April Jones. What Do Wheels Do All Day? Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Raczka, Bob. More Than Meets the Eye: Seeing Art with All Five Senses. Millbrook Press, 2003.
The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel. Hyperion Books, 2010.
Rudolph, Jessica. Erased by a Tornado! Bearport Publishing, 2010.
Salas, Laura Purdie. Move It! Work It! A Song about Simple Machines. Picture Window Books, 2009. Salisbury, Graham. Calvin Coconut: Hero of Hawaii. Yearling, 2012.
Schwartz, Cory Rosen and Tali Klein. Hop! Plop! Walker & Co., 2006.
Solheim, James. It’s Disgusting and We Ate It! True Food Facts from around the World and throughout History. Aladdin, 2001.
Solway, Andrew. The Science of a Loaf of Bread. Gareth Stevens, 2009.
Stanton, Andy. You’re a Bad Man, Mr. Gum. Egmont Books, 2006.
Swanson, Diane. Turn It Loose: The Scientist in Absolutely Everybody. Annick Press, 2004.
Weinstock, Robert. Food Hates You, Too and Other Poems. Hyperion, 2009.
Wells, Robert E. How Do You Lift a Lion? Perfection Learning, 1996.
Yasuda, Anita. Explore Simple Machines: 25 Great Projects, Activities, Experiments. Nomad Press, 2011.

We can help you find these books or request them from another library.

Happy Summer Reading!

The Pember Book Club will be meeting to discuss any books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

From GoodReads:

Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as “Gabo” in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He studied at the University of Bogotá and late worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.

From Internet Book List:

Collections:

• Leaf Storm and Other Stories (1955)
• No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories (1968)
• Collected Stories (1984)
• Collected Novellas (1990)
• Strange Pilgrims (1992)

Anthologies:

• Eye of the Heart, the (1973)
• Imperial Messages (1976)
• Elsewhere (1981)
• Short Shorts (1982)
• Magical Realist Fiction (1984)
• Art of the Tale, the (1986)
• World of the Short Story, the (1986)
• Sudden Fiction International (1989)
• Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990)
• Nobel Crimes (1992)
• Rebels and Reactionaries (1992)
• New Mystery, the: The International Association of Crime Writers’ Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993)
• Fiction: A Harpercollins Pocket Anthology (1993)
• Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection, the (1994)
• Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection, the (1997)
• Murder on Deck! (1998)
• Road To Science Fiction Volume 6: Around the World (1998)
• Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (1999)
• Telling Tales (2004)

Novels:

• No One Writes to the Colonel (1957)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
• Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
• General in His Labyrinth, the (1989)
• Of Love and Other Demons (1994)
• News of a Kidnapping (1996)

Short Stories:

• Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, a (1968)
• Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, the (1968)

A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Thursday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public.