THE BELMONT BOOKMARK

Volume 2, Issue 9 Newsletter of the Belmont Public Library July 2014

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Belmont Public Library Fizz Boom… Read! Events Anniversary Celebration On July 10th at Raffle Prize Drawing Every Friday! When 5 pm, the you register for Fizz, Boom, READ you receive a Library will raffle ticket. You also get another ticket every host a special time you bring back your log to be stamped. Be celebration to sure you return your raffle ticket to the mark its 86th Children’s Room to be entered into each week’s year, to drawing! welcome new director Becky Monday July 7 @ 2pm Kick-off summer Albert, and to reading with Peter Boie, Magician for Non- unveil the National Register of Historic Places Believers! Peter will wow us with his amazing plaque donated by the Heritage Commission. A illusions and perhaps give us a little lesson in the surprise gift will also be presented at the event. science behind the magic! Come see for yourself!! Monday July 14 @ 1pm NH Children’s Museum The museum is coming to us! Along with the museum educator, we will learn about Upcycling, The Register Now for Fizz Boom… Read! Human Footprint, Saving Register at the library for Fizz, Boom, READ the Earth and Playing with and receive a free slice of pizza from Brookside! Trash in this interactive program: Once a week prizes for everyone who brings in “Fizz…Boom…Think!” Program is designed their Reading Log with at least one book read for ages 4-10, but all are welcome! This event will since it was last stamped! be held at Belmont Middle School. Space is Raffles once a week for cool prizes like Canobie limited, so please sign up at the library. Lake Park, Santa’s Village, Funspot and Water Country! Thursday July 24 @ 3pm – Crafternoon Fizz, Boom, CREATE! Miss Katherine will pull Come join the excitement! out all the stops as she teaches you to make this scientific craft! Crafternoon is designed for elementary and middle school aged children, but Wednesdays at 10:30 am – Stories and crafts are all our welcome! designed for elementary school aged children, but all are welcome!

Thursday July 17 @ 1pm Mad Scientist Miss th Julie A scientist in our library? You bet! Mad July 9 Are you ready to Fizz, Boom, READ? Scientist Miss Julie will amaze us with her Miss Jenny will explore science through stories, whooshing, popping and fizzing science simple experiments and even help you to make a experiments! Beware…she is CRAZY fun! Miss take home craft you can wear. Julie’s Mad Science is designed for elementary July 16th Did you hear that? What did you see? and middle school aged students’ abilities, but all Something smells! I didn’t touch our welcome! it! Does it taste yucky? You Belmont Middle School Summer guessed it! We will explore our five senses in this fun, Reading List interactive storytime with Miss The books for Belmont Middle School’s summer Jenny!! reading are downstairs in the children’s section. rd July 23 There are colors all We have most of the titles on the lists. Due to around us! Did you know that the additional demand for them, summer reading we need light to see them? list books may not be renewed like other books. Join Miss Katherine for stories and a make-and- take craft as she sets out on an exciting adventure New Magazines in light and color!

The library has recently subscribed to a number July 30th Pop! Everyone loves bubbles!!! Special of new magazines: guest reader Miss Robin will share with us some Health Magazine sudsy stories, songs and activities! Popular Mechanics

Popular Science Book Group Prevention Book group will meet on Tuesday, July 22 at 6:00 Psychology Today pm. This month’s book is Life After Life by Victoria Kate Atkinson.

New Horror Movies What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Get a scare with our new Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his classic horror movies! wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is Dawn of the Dead born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life The Shining that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she The Silence of the Lambs grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war… Does Ursula's Storytimes for July apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? Note: There will be no storytime July 2 while we And if she can -- will she? Darkly comic, startlingly prepare for our summer reading activities. poignant, and utterly original -- this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.” (Despcription from .com) Craft Night – Thursdays at 6 p.m. Transall Saga, The – Paulsen, Gary Very Inappropriate Word, The – Tobin, Jim Bring your own craft and share a fun hour with new friends! Some craft materials will be DVDs available for you to use, but feel free to bring 42 your own as well. No need to sign up, just drop Dawn of the Dead by! Doc Martin, Series 1 Finding Graceland T.A.G. Team Grand Budapest Hotel, The Hustle & Flow Teen Advisory Group, ages 12-18, will be Lego Movie, The experimenting with science this summer every Lone Ranger, The Tuesday at 4 p.m.! Bring a friend! Snacks will be Lord of the Rings: Return of the King provided! Come join the fun! Mr. Selfridge, Season 1 Once Upon A Time: The Complete First Season Lego Club Once Upon A Time: The Complete Second Season Poirot & Marple, 17-disc set The Belmont Public Library’s next Lego club Shining, The meeting will be held on Saturday July 12, from Silence of the Lambs, The 10:30 to noon. Children ages 5 and up are Upstairs Downstairs, Series One encouraged to bring their imagination and build You Don't Mess With the Zohan on this month’s theme: “Explosions.” The Library will provide all children with Legos to Fiction build, and finished pieces will be put on display American Gods – Gaiman, Neil in the Children’s room. Sign up is not required Betrayl in Death – Robb, J. D. and late arrivals are always welcome. Big Jack – Robb, J. D. Blinded – White, Stephen (Audiobook) New Items Canyons of Night – Castle, Jayne Chestnut Street – Binchy, Maeve Biography Clara and Mr. Tiffany – Vreeland, Susan Orange Is the New Black – Kerman, Piper Country Bride – Macomber, Debbie Take This Man – Skyhorse, Brando Death Comes Quickly – Albert, Susan Wittig Director, The – Ignatius, David Children’s Another Day as Emily – Spinelli, Eileen Extraordinary Powers – Finder, Joseph Being Binah (The English Roses) – Ghost Ship – Cussler, Clive Bunnicula: A Rabbit-tale of Mystery – Howe, In Too Deep Lost – Krentz, Jayne Ann Deborah and James Invention of Wings, The – Kidd, Sue Monk DC Super Friends: Flying High – Eliopulos, Kraken Project, The – Preston, Douglas Nick Lost Lake – Allen, Sarah Addison Deer Dancer – Ray, Mary Lyn Matchmaker, The - Hilderbrand, Elin Escaping the Giant Wave – Kehret, Peg One and Only, The – Giffin, Emily Good-Bye, Grace? (The English Roses) – Painter, The – Heller, Peter Madonna Sooner or Later – Macomber, Debbie I Am Cow, Hear Me Moo! – Esbaum, Jill Storied Life of A. J. Fikry – Zevin, Gabrielle Luck Uglies, The – Durham, Paul Suspicion – Finder, Joseph New Girl, The (The English Roses) – Tempting Fate – Green, Jane Madonna To People of Sparks, The – DuPrau, Jeanne Rise Pigeon Needs a Bath!, The – Willems, Mo Sugaring – Haas, Jessie Again at a Decent Hour – Ferris, Joshua No Place To Hide – Greenwald, Glenn Vertigo 42 – Grimes, Martha One Summer: America, 1927 – Bryson, Bill Walking on Water – Evans, Richard Paul Young Adult Bell, Ted Warriors – 11 Birthdays – Mass, Wendy – King, Stephen Mr. Mercedes 13 Gifts – Mass, Wendy Games City of Heavenly Fire – Clare, Cassandra Devil May Cry (PS2) Deep Blue – Donnelly, Jennifer Gauntlet: Dark Legacy (PS2) I Am Number Four – Lore, Pittacus Last Present, The – Mass, Wendy Nonfiction Mango-Shaped Space, A – Mass, Wendy Art of Tinkering, The – Wilkinson, Karen Rise of Nine, The – Lore, Pittacus Divide, The – Taibbi, Matt The Maze Runner – Dashner, James Escape from Camp 14 – Harden, Blaine This Star Won't Go Out – Earl, Esther Girls of Atomic City, The – Kiernan, Denise

July Calendar of Events Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 T.A.G. Team Storytime Arts & Crafts Independence CLOSED 4 pm 10:30 am 6 pm Day CLOSED

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Peter Boie, T.A.G. Team Storytime Anniversary Lego Club Magician 4 pm 10:30 am Celebration 5 10:30 am 2:00 pm Trustee pm Meeting 6:00 pm 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Children’s T.A.G. Team Storytime Miss Julie: Mad Museum of 4 pm 10:30 am Scientist 1:00 NH pm 1:00 pm Arts & Crafts Please sign up! 6 pm 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 T.A.G. Team Storytime Crafternoon 4 pm 10:30 am 3:00 pm Book Group Arts & Crafts 6 pm 6 pm

27 28 29 30 31 T.A.G. Team Storytime Arts & Crafts 4 pm 10:30 am 6 pm