A Salute to Reading
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Emily, whose father is a Navy pilot, has to deal with the separation of her family while her dad is deployed aboard a ship, but when she makes a friend whose dad has also shipped out, she realizes that she is not th ... -
Jenny and her best friend K.C. accompany Jenny's mother, a tanker pilot in the Air Force, to the air base, where they explore her plane, a KC-135, prior to her departure on a training mission to Europe. -
Nine-year-old Lizzie writes to her mother, who is deployed overseas during wartime, and includes maps that show her mother what Lizzie has been thinking and doing. -
A little girl's father helps her get over her fear of the dark before he goes off to war, and she uses the stars they painted on her ceiling to remind her of him while he is away. -
A young boy waits with both excitement and apprehension for his father to disembark from the aircraft carrier returning to port after many months at sea. -
Parents in the armed forces assure their children at home, who are doing things that echo what their parents are doing, how much they love and miss their offspring, and how their duties are another way of showing th ...
Featured Youth Program
It's Summer Reading Time!
Enrollment for Summer Reading has begun and title-sharing starts June 24. For information about the program for children up to rising 5th graders click here. For information about the Wheel of Reading, click here.
You may maintain your reading log online this year, although children still need to come into the library to share titles and spin the wheel. Those who have registered for the online option can access the online summer reading log here.
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