Coming Up at The Library!

October 7^th from 6:30 p.m. till 7:30 p.m., World War I: The Homefront and the Consequences

Dave Clark, a local historian, will help us take a look at World War I focusing on how the homefront was affected by the long term consequences of the war in Europe. This is a 'One Book,One Community' event.

Thursday, October 9th, Start time 1:00 P.M., Movie Day

Join us for an afternoon of movie watching. This afternoon we are viewing Monster House, a movie about three friends who confront the spooky house on the block. For kids in kindergarten and up. Free popcorn and lemonade will be served.

Friday, October 10^th from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., Spooktacular Craft

Calling all children in 2^nd to 5^th grade to help create spooktacular Halloween decorations with Miss Pat.

Saturday, October 11^th from 1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M., Kankakee Valley Model Flyers Club

Spend the afternoon with the Kankakee Valley Model Flyers Club as they demonstrate how to fly remote control planes. Participants will learn how to fly remote control planes with the use of computer-generated programs. For kids in 5^th grade and older. This is a 'One Book, One Community' activity.

Banned Books Week

September 21st - September 28th

Find a Banned Book!

Top Ten Challenged Books of 2013

Out of 307 challenges as reported by the Office for Intellectual Freedom

1. Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
   Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence
2. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
   Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
   Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
4. Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. James
   Reasons: Nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
5. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
   Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group
6. A Bad Boy Can Be Good for A Girl, by Tanya Lee Stone
   Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit
7. Looking for Alaska, by John Green
   Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
   Reasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
9. Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
   Reasons: Occult/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
10. Bone (series), by Jeff Smith
    Reasons: Political viewpoint, racism, violence

Please Note:  The Limestone Township Library Board Meeting scheduled for Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 7:00 P.M. has been RESCHEDULED for Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 7:00 PM in the Peterson Schoolhouse which is next to the library.

Upcoming Events at Limestone Township Library

September 15, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. YA Book and Pizza

Join us for book club night for kids in 5^th through 8^th grade. For the month of September we are reading Peak by Roland Smith. After we discuss the book, we will share some pizza. Stop in to pick up your book at the Front Desk beginning Friday, August 15^th.

September 16^th & 18^th, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m., Tiny Explorers

Join us for a new morning program specifically for children 6 months to 5 years old. Parents and Guardians come along for this new program a chance for kids of all ages to play and build using age-appropriate manipulatives. It is a great time of socialization and play. Tiny Explorers meets on Tuesday and Thursday of the third week of every month.

 

Saturday, September 12^th, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Lego Building

Have fun with other Lego enthusiasts creating objects with our Lego blocks. This play session is meant for children in Kindergarten through 5^th Grade.

Saturday, September 20^th from 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m., Eco-bot Challenge

In this experiment, youth in grades 5^th through 8th will enhance their engineering skills by assembling their own Eco-Bots and surface controls to manage an environmental clean-up. Youth will then test the interaction between the Eco-Bot's design features and various barriers to determine the most effective clean-up solution for a simulated toxic spill.

Monday, September 22^nd at 6:30  - 7:30 p.m. Reading to the Dogs

Calling all kids, from pre-school on up, to read to our special therapy dogs who like listening to stories from a lot of different books. If your child cannot read yet, mom or dad can read to both the child and the dog.

Sign up for these or our other programs 

by calling the Front Desk at 815-939-1696.

September is

National Library Card Sign-Up Month

Stan Lee, Honorary Chair of National Library Card Sign-Up Month

Lee is the co-creator of the Fantastic Four, Spiderman and The X-Men. He has been an editor and Publisher at Marvel Comics. As publisher, he turned the company from a comic book enterprise into a multimedia empire that includes movies such as The Avengers, Iron Man, The Hulk, Captain America, and Spiderman. In 2012, the year in which he turned 90, Lee co-wrote a graphic novel Romeo and Juliet: The War which landed on the New York Times Bestseller list as well as launching the YouTube channel Stan Lee's World of Heroes.

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