It is with great sadness that the Library shares the news that former Children’s Services Librarian Lilly Hecker has passed away. She died peacefully at home on March 12 with her husband, Sid, by her side. “Miss Lilly,” as she was known to many...
Read moreJuvenile Book Review: “Raymie Nightingale” by Kate DiCamillo
Nightingale is not Raymie’s real last name, but it describes her well. Like Florence Nightingale, Raymie knows how to shed light and rescue the needy. She and two other girls meet at the home of a baton winner in order to learn how to twirl...
Read moreYA Book Review: “The Hired Girl” by Laura Amy Schlitz
Some of us complain about having it rough. Really? Take a look at fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs – the only girl in her house — who lives on a poor farm in Pennsylvania with her father and older brothers during the early 1900s. Here is her...
Read moreBookmark: Meet the Library Staff—What You Probably Didn’t Know About Your Favorite Librarians
Maybe you only stop by the Town of Pelham Public Library occasionally, but, nonetheless, the people who work there are probably familiar. They are always ready to help with a school project, give book recommendations, or to teach you how to use...
Read moreYA Book Review: “All the Bright Places” By Jennifer Niven
They meet on a narrow ledge six stories above the ground in the bell tower of their high school. At first, only one student notices, but dismisses the image because he sees only Theodore “Freak” Finch, a known nutcase. But wait! There is a girl...
Read moreYoung Adult Book Review: “Bone Gap” by Laura Ruby
Corn fields. Farmers claim that you can hear the corn grow. And the corn does grow – tall and full –so thick that a person can appear or disappear between the rows. In the underpopulated town of Bone Gap, a beautiful girl from Poland appears in...
Read moreBookmark: Two Pelham Teams Competed in Battle of the Books
Do you know how many walking sticks were in King Tut’s tomb? Or what Marie Antoinette’s last words were? The answers are deep within the pages of How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg—and they were just two of...
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