If you love to read, you’ll love our BookFix personalized Book Subscription Box!! Tween fiction fans in grades 5-8 can register. An Algonquin Library Card is required. Answer a couple of questions about your favorite reads and we’ll custom select a book we’re sure you’ll enjoy and a few surprises too! Bring the book back when it’s due, but the […]
Baby-Sitter’s Club President of the Whole Fifth Grade by Sherri Winston When Brianna’s celebrity chef hero credits her success to being elected fifth grade class president, Brianna, sets out to win an election of her own. An entrepreneurial story about a strong girl who makes things happen. Brianna’s a total Kristy. All’s Faire in Middle School by Victoria […]
The American Library Association has partnered with Netflix to create a new reading incentive called Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices. Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices is a live-action collection of twelve five minute episodes featuring prominent Black celebrities and artists reading children’s books from Black authors that highlight the Black experience. Ages 0-4 Reading List Ages 4-8 Reading List Ages 8-12 Reading List […]
Anderson’s Bookshop down in Naperville, IL is holding a FREE virtual event with Sarah Mlynowski. Mlynowski is the author of the Whatever After & Upside Down Magic series. This webinar will be on Monday, August 31st at 7pm Central Time. Click here to register!
Head on over to WE COUNT! for a free Census eBook for children. Available languages are: English, Spanish, Bengali, Arabic, Farsi, Korean, Russian, Chinese, Tagalong, Vietnamese, French, Armenian, Punjabi, & Haitan Creole. In addition to the eBook, there are plenty of other Census 2020 resources including worksheets & storytime!
This upcoming Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 from 5-6pm we will be having our first fall Girls Who Code meeting! This program is for 3-5th graders. Last spring we focused on the nonfiction Girls Who Code book, Learn to Code and Change the World. This fall we will be reading Girls Who Code: The Friendship Code. When you sign up for […]
Didn’t catch our Women’s Suffrage Storytime yesterday? Well here it is….and here is an accompanying booklist! Suffrage Votes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of an almost eighty-year fight in which some of […]
Schools moving to a remote learning model for the start of the academic year is the talk of the town. Many parents who are already juggling work and household responsibilities are now also planning what fall will look like with their children learning at home. This creates new challenges for parents, students and teachers alike. Even with some childcare services […]
So, this was not in our newsletter but the demand for homeschooling materials and information is high! With the school year looming next week, we thought we would throw together a webinar for parents about local homeschooling options. This webinar will feature four local homeschooling groups: the Barrington Area Homeschoolers, Classical Consortium, Schaumburg HOUSE, and McHenry County Homeschool Happenings. The […]
UNESCO has provided an amazing list of resources for home-school and distance education learners! Check it out here: THE LIST
