Ruby Sisson Library

"A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being After the tragic death his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house-a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their...

"This book carefully outlines and offers seasoned advice on running a board smoothly and effectively, along with tips and tools for distributing responsibilities and forming beneficial relationships with board members, the library staff, and the community. Moore also provides guidance on collaboration in policy making and library advocacy through public relations and fund-raising."--BOOK JACKET

Eleven-year-old Pearl Moran cannot imagine life without the historic but under-utilized branch of the New York Public Library where she was born (in the Memorial Room) and where her single mother works as the circulation librarian; the other librarians, the neighborhood people, the raccoons, and most of the 41,000 plus books all form the structure and essence of her life--but when someone cuts off the head of the library's statue of Edna St. Vincent...

"Andrew Carnegie funded fifty-nine public libraries in Kansas in the early 20th century, but it was frontier women who organized waffle suppers, minstrel shows, and women's baseball games to buy books to fill them. Now, a century later, Angelina returns to her father's hometown of New Hope to complete her dissertation on the Carnegie libraries, just as Traci and Gayle arrive in town, Traci as an artist-in-residence at the renovated Carnegie Arts Center...

Describes how library director RoseAleta Laurell lived for a week on the Dr. Eugene Clark Library roof to help raise over forty thousand dollars for its children's section. Includes factual information.

Puzzled over what to write for a creative writing contest, Abby finds inspiration when her dog digs up an old key on a gold chain and she sets out, with the help of Mrs. Mackenzie the public librarian, to solve the mystery of the golden key.

Between 1893 and the early 1920's the Carnegie "free library" program endowed the construction of 1,688 public libraries in 1,419 communities across America--half of all the public libraries in the nation.

It has been several months since monsters last plagued the town of Stermont, and frankly Alexander Bopp (leader of the Super Secret Monster Patrol) is bored, and misses his friends Rip (immersed in video games) and Nikki (soccer camp), so when his father signs him up for a summer maker program at the library he is happy to go--but soon he starts finding weird old-timey objects, and monster trading cards, and it starts to look like maybe monsters are...

Straight from the library--the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out! From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the stacks, I Work at a Public Library showcases the oddities that have come across Gina Sheridan's circulation desk. Throughout these pages, she catalogs her encounters with local eccentrics as well as the questions that plague her, such as, "What is the standard length of eyebrow hairs?" Whether...