Website Content Search
Displaying 1026 - 1050 of 1312
MADreads post
This photo-illustrated book encourages the youngest readers to pay attention to the natural world that surrounds them in their urban neighborhoods. Animals such as squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… featured animals are common enough to spot while out and about, this book provides an opportunity for parents to help …
1
Book club kit
From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it.
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it. … …
1
MADreads post
Even if you haven’t heard of trap music, you’ve heard it. A hip hop subgenre born out of the American south, with fast and hard drums and lyrics about the drug underworld, trap music has taken the…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… of the American south, with fast and hard drums and lyrics about the drug underworld, trap music has taken the world by …
1
Article
Join a new program at Goodman South Madison Library where we'll try a different, hands-on science experiment on Friday afternoons throughout the summer. Each experiment will help teach us about…
Last updated 5 months 2 weeks ago
… throughout the summer. Each experiment will help teach us about different aspects of science - all while having …
1
MADreads post
"Hoarders. Scavengers. Clever foragers. Bringers of new life."
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… blended narrative of fact and storytelling to learn about how Nox Gaak, the Raven Mother, and her flock, look …
1
Kids app
Follow PBS character, Molly of Denali, an Alaskan Native, as she explores her fictional community, Qyah, introducing users to her culture through harvesting natural resources ("we only take what we…
Last updated 3 months 1 week ago
… in the Gwich'in language (an actual language spoken by about 400 people in Canada and the Yukon area). Fun to …
1
Impact story
Madison Public Library provides a recap of 2022 told through library data.
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… love this year! As we look back at 2022, we have to talk about eBooks and Audiobooks! This year, Madisonians increased …
1
Storytime starter
Trains, tuk tuks, cars, rocketships... enjoy this storytime all about the different ways we travel from place to place.
Last updated 4 months 1 week ago
… tuk tuks, cars, rocketships... enjoy this storytime all about the different ways we travel from place to place. … …
1
MADreads post
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice has a difficult hurdle to overcome if it is to distinguish itself from all the other retellings, homages…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… get back to him with a decision. After a week of thought about all the pros and cons, Elizabeth accepts his hand in …
1
MADreads post
Unicorns are supposed to be all smiles, glitter and rainbows. And Kevin’s days are “filled with …Magical Awesomeness” Until the morning Kevin wakes up on the floor. Something feels not quite right,…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… Finally, Kevin lets go and expresses his actual feelings about his horrible day. And once he allows himself to do …
1
MADreads post
Édouard Louis’s The End of Eddy is a brisk and brutal roman à clef about a white gay teen growing up in rural 1990s France. Alcoholism, racism, violence, and impugnable choices abound. Gross and…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… Louis’s The End of Eddy is a brisk and brutal roman à clef about a white gay teen growing up in rural 1990s France. …
1
Book club kit
In chapters that alternate between the history of the Hmong and a highly personal story of a young Hmong girl who is severly ill with seizures, we learn about Hmong culture and the dramatic clash…
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… Hmong girl who is severly ill with seizures, we learn about Hmong culture and the dramatic clash between it and …
1
MADreads post
The graphic novel adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor's short story "On the Road" takes the reader on a journey that connects the mind and body with an infinite past of cultural heritage. Chioma, a…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… her new path. Spoiler alert: I thought this novel was about zombies, but it's not. It's still extremely spooky and …
1
MADreads post
I've been thinking a lot about gratitude and family so I'm really excited to share two new picture books especially for young readers ages 4-8 that combine these concepts to beautifully illustrate…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… I've been thinking a lot about gratitude and family so I'm really excited to share two …
1
MADreads post
Azra and her family are having a regular evening when her father comes racing into their home, saying the whole family must leave immediately. Violence and turmoil have gotten out of control in their…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… that even parents and school teachers might not know a lot about. … Finding a new home …
1
Kids app
Although the game begins with Kosmo’s robot girlfriend, Nova, getting blasted into pieces that are scattered throughout the galaxy, this game is actually charmingly cute and relaxing to play.
Last updated 3 months 1 week ago
… this unless you want your twitter feed to suddenly be all about this game. This is a fun one for kids and parents to …
1
MADreads post
There are a few tropes that will always hook me when it comes to historical romance. One of those tropes, the marriage of convenience, is the underpinning for Burrowes' latest in her Windham Brides…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… state. That's the setup. But the meat of the story is about how these individuals, pretty much strangers before …
1
MADreads post
Lady Arianna Hadley has led a colorful, and hard, life because of the choices her father made. After his murder Arianna takes on a disguise and the role of French chef in an aristocratic household,…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… investigate. He immediately knows there is something off about the French chef and quickly realizes that "he" is a …
1
MADreads post
I loved playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? a computer game created in 1985 by the American software company Broderbund. The game was originally classified as a "mystery…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… career choice. Something that I've always wondered about and that this new series and book addresses is who …
1
MADreads post
Warm-weather nature explorations may feel a long way off. But that doesn’t mean that junior naturalists are entirely without opportunities to learn more about the environments around us.
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… are entirely without opportunities to learn more about the environments around us. At Home with the Beaver …
1
Book club kit
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world…
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the …
1
MADreads post
Who says nonfiction is boring??? Not author Hannah Holt and illustrator Korwin Briggs! Their book, A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken, is about as delightful as the title suggests. Silly…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… book, A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken , is about as delightful as the title suggests. Silly cartoon …
1
Book list
July - September 2023 Issue
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me about (Desiring) Men . Biggs, Joanna. A Life of One’s Own: …
1
MADreads post
Christine Mangan's first novel Tangerine had Patricia Highsmith vibes. Fair commentary. A description even more true I'd say in this, her sophomore effort in which author Frances "Frankie" Croy…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… poor reviews and Frankie's disastrous public meltdown about one of them landed her in a sanitarium. Her best friend …
1
MADreads post
Does it ever get old??? No, it does not. Animal books are one of the staples of any library kids collection and these two are extra fun. In close up, highly detailed color photos, the reader is asked…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… the page and get your answer along with interesting facts about the animal in question.Some animals are easy guesses, …
1