Read-Aloud Roundup

Volume 5, Issue 3

October 2017

Unveiling our Updated Kid Zone

Applewhites Coast to Coast

Book Bites: The Answer to

Your Quest for Great Books

Crimebiters!

The End of Five Kingdoms

Fall for Kid Lit Coffee Break

Hopgood Will Have You

Singing in the Rain

Huff and Puff at Crafty

Characters

My Little Pony: The Movie —

Friendship Comes in Many

Colors

Pumpkin Power

Trick or Treat!

The Wild Robot Escapes

Untangle the Web www.bystanderrevolution.org/

Search this site to find ideas

about how to deal with bully-

ing from folks who have been

bullies, targets and bystand-

ers. Watch videos by subject

and sign up to take your own

stand against bullying!

APProved

Geoboard

Learners

stretch bands

around the pegs to form

line segments and

polygons and make

discoveries about

perimeter, area, angles,

congruence, fractions,

and more.

FREE / iPhone & iPad

The Tiny Hero of Ferny Creek Library by Linda Bailey

Eddie, a passionate reader and a shiny green

bug, saves the school library in this funny,

heartwarming tale for fans of Flora &

Ulysses and Charlotte’s Web.

And the Robot Went . . .

by Michelle Robinson Teamwork + trial and error = a happy robot

and an ear-splitting racket.

Review the New

The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Ada’s first story, The War That Saved My Life, won a Newbery

Honor and the Schneider Family

Book Award. This novel continues

her powerful, uplifting journey

set during World War II.

When Ada’s clubfoot is surgically

fixed at last, she knows for

certain that she’s not what her

mother said she was: damaged,

crippled mentally as well as

physically. Who is Ada now? How

can she keep fighting? And who

will she struggle to save?

The Blog Log www.hooverlibrary.org/blog

students will have to be with

their adults to check them

out. We are asking for each

family to limit themselves to

two games per checkout.

This may change as we

expand our collection.

Elementary games available: Catan Junior Connect 4

Dr. Eureka Dweebies

Flashlights & Fireflies

Forbidden Island

Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters

Happy Salmon

The Hare and the Tortoise

Hey, That’s My Fish!

Karuba Kingdomino

Kitty Paw Labyrinth

Lift It Deluxe Lucky Dogs

Master Fox

Mole Rats in Space

Monster Factory Monza

My First Stone Age

Outfoxed Qwirkle

Rabbit Rally Rat a Tat Cat

Rhino Hero Robot Turtles

Scrabble

Secret Code 13+4

Sleeping Queens

Spot It! Party Sushi Go

Taco Takeover Wig Out

Hoover Public Library

recently redesigned the Kid

Zone. There’s new carpeting

and rearranged bookshelves.

We created a more open

space for study and

learning . . . and added

LEGO tables! We also

completed a long-awaited

movie project. All children’s

DVDs and Blu-Rays are now

shelved in alphabetical order

by three letters, making it

easy to locate your favorite

titles. And we’re very

excited to announce our new

circulating board game

collection.

We have 47 board games

available for checkout. They

are shelved in a special

display across from the main

Kid Zone desk. Each game

can be checked out for one

week. You must be at least

fifteen years old to check out

a game, which means your

Read This, Not That

www.hooverlibrary.org

200 Municipal Drive

Hoover, AL 35216

Circulation: 444-7800

Kid Zone: 444-7830

Outreach/Tours: 444-7839

BONUS ROUND

Creepy Pair of Underwear

by Aaron Reynolds & Peter Brown

Check out the spooky

sequel to Caldecott

Honor-winning Creepy

Carrots. Then check

out the author’s top

10 creepy picture

books.

Spy School isn’t the only book series about going undercover.

Bridget Wilder, Spy in Training by Jonathan Bernstein (#1)

Codename Zero by Chris Rylander

The Curious Cat Spy Club by Linda Joy Singleton (#1)

Double Vision by F. T. Bradley (#1)

The Genius Files: Mission Unstoppable by Dan Gutman (#1)

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

The Inside Job (And Other Skills I Learned as a Superspy)

by Jackson Pearce (#1)

IQ: Independence Hall by Roland Smith (#1)

The League of Unexceptional Children by Gitty Daneshvari (#1)

Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead

Merits of Mischief: The Bad Apple by T. R. Burns (#1)

The Ministry of SUITS by Paul Gamble (#1)

Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls by Beth McMullen

N.E.R.D.S. by Michael Buckley (#1)

School for S.P.I.E.S.: Playing with Fire by Bruce Hale (#1)

The Secret Agent: And Other Spy Kids by Allan Zullo

Shadows of Sherwood by Kekla Magoon (#1)

To Catch a Cheat by Varian Johnson

Under Locker and Key by Allison K. Hymas

The Wig in the Window by Kristen Kittscher (#1)

Sat., Oct. 14 at 10:30 a.m.

All ages

More Than Common Core Eye of the Storm: NASA, Drones, and the Race to

Crack the Hurricane Code by Amy E. Cherrix

Ten million Americans live in hurricane danger zones, but how

do we know if or when to evacuate? We must predict both

when a storm will strike and how strong it will be. A daring

NASA earth science mission may have finally found a way to

crack this hurricane code. Part of the amazing Scientists in

the Field series. Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and

a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle by Deborah

Lee Rose & Jane Veltkamp

After her beak was partially shot off and she couldn’t eat or

drink properly, the fully grown eagle could no longer survive in

the wild. In her first rescue center, her wounds were treated

and she was given a name, Beauty. Transferred to a raptor

center in Idaho, she came to the attention of an engineer who

designed and printed a 3D prosthetic to replace the missing

part of her upper beak.

Fri., Oct. 27 at 7 p.m.

All ages

Fruit and Veggie

Art Prints

Tues., Oct. 3

at 4:30 p.m.

Ages 5-12

Who-Done-It?

Tues., Oct. 17 at 4:30 p.m.

Ages 7-12