Ballston Reader
What's Happening at the Town of Ballston Community Library
Friday, February 16th, 2018
Egg Drop Challenge
The first step to building a better world is to hone the skills of cooperation and creativity. Children will show their cooperative and creative skills by rising to the egg drop challenge. Working in teams of three they will build an egg drop device that will protect an egg from a fall of over 8 feet to the hard floor. They will name their device and explain how it works before it is dropped.
*Registration required, for grades 3-7.
Tuesday, February 20th - 10:30-11:30am
Building Bridges
The Wonder Room presents Building Bridges - calling all junior bridge engineers! Join us to listen to stories about bridges and then practice designing your own bridges with a variety of materials. We'll test out our bridges for strength. How much weight can they bear?
**WAITLIST**
*Registration required, for grades K- 3
Wednesday, February 21st - 1:30-2:30pm
Table Top Game Night
*Registration Required, for ages 10 & up.
Read to Leela
Dog lovers of all ages are invited to read to Leela, a certified therapy dog at this drop in program!
Wednesday, February 21st - 2:00PM
Library Mini Golf Is Next Week!
Take a Look at These Books
Survivor Cafe by Elizabeth Rosner
"Trauma informs a memoir palpable with anger, sorrow, and frustration.
Poet, essayist, and novelist Rosner (Electric City, 2014, etc.) feels an intimate connection to the Holocaust: her father was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp when he was 15, and her mother, at the age of 12, fled from her home in the Vilna ghetto and lived in hiding for two years, until the Russians drove the Nazis out of Poland. The two met later, married, and immigrated to the United States, where Rosner and her siblings were born. German culture and language were forbidden in her family, yet the author’s life was shadowed by her parents’ history. “Shards of their past lodged themselves inside me at birth, if not before,” she writes, which infused her life with “grief, anxiety, rage, and so much more.” Those emotions are shared, Rosner knows, with many others whose lives were blighted by atrocities: Vietnamese boat people, victims of the Cambodian Killing Fields, Japanese descendants of atom-bomb survivors or families interned in American camps, and survivors of Armenian, Rwandan, or Native American genocides." - Excerpt from Kirkus Book Review article
Surprise Me by Sophie Kinsella
"Sophie Kinsella is full of surprises.
In Surprise Me, the British author of the chick-lit-y Shopaholic series (and other charming comic standalone titles) is still making us laugh.
But she goes deeper this time, creating a main character who discovers a truly shocking family secret and, in the process, finally grows up. It’s an unexpected and wholly satisfying payoff for the devoted Kinsella fan (guilty)." - Excerpt from USA Today Book Review article
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah’s new novel makes Alaska sound equally gorgeous and treacherous — a glistening realm that lures folks into the wild and then kills them there. It’s the essential setting of “The Great Alone,” an epic story about a teenage girl trapped in her parents’ toxic marriage.
(St. Martin’s)
Hannah, the author of more than 20 novels, including “The Nightingale” (2015), which sold 4 million copies, has a sharp eye for drama. This time around, she draws directly on her own family’s knowledge of the challenges and rewards of living on the last frontier. In the 1980s, her parents co-founded what is now the Great Alaska Adventure Lodge, which is still operating out of Sterling, Alaska.
This Past Week...
Valentine's Day Cookie Decorating
More Cookies!
Messy, but fun!
Community Display Spaces
Calling all artists & collectors!
Tax Forms
It's That Time of Year Again...
The Library has received State tax forms, and will have State instruction books to CHECK OUT. Due to the limited number of booklets sent by the State, they will be available for check out with a library card. Federal 1040 forms and booklets are here. Below are links to both Federal and State tax websites where you can look up and print your own forms and booklets.
https://www.irs.gov/forms-instructions
https://www.tax.ny.gov/forms/
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