Two Bobbies
Authors: Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery
Illustrated by: Jean Cassels
This is a good book about friendship and survival. The story is about a dog and a cat who become friends when their home town, New Orleans, is struck by Hurricane Katrina.
Bobbie the dog and Bob the cat depend on one and another to survive when they are abandoned by their owners during the hurricane. Many people lost everything. But Bobbie dog and Bob cat have each other. The cat is blind, and the dog is her eyes.
The High Noon Book Club will be discussing
The Help by Kathryn Stockett on
Monday Sept 13, 2010 at 12 Noon
Books are available at the
Washington Highlands Library
For more Information call 202-243-1185
Start the school year off with your very own back to school book club.
The Rainbow Magic Series are great fun books for children to read for book reports. This can be a home reading project with family and
friends and their children.
Arthur’s Computer Disaster
By: Marc Brown
Grades: 3-6
Arthur has a new computer game called Deep Dark Sea that he is hooked on.
He wants to play the game on the computer every chance he gets.
When his mother was leaving for work, she told him not to play
the computer while she’s gone. But Arthur just can’t resist the temptation.
His little sister D.W. warns him, but he does it anyway and ends up breaking the computer.
Arthur’s Mom gets home fix the computer and punished him.
This is a great book to teach children what will happen when they break the rules.
The book has wonderful works of art; It’s a great book for early readers.
Em Watts is your typical high school braniac. She shuns fashion for a more comfortable, yet sloppy look. She pretends that she doesn’t care when the cool kids at her specialty high school shun her. And she is in love with her best friend, Christopher. She is the exact opposite of her little sister, Frida, who drags Em and Christopher to the opening of a new Stark Megastore in order to meet singer/heartthrob Gabriel Luna. Disaster erupts when a large TV falls on Em just as teen supermodel Nikki Howard suffers an aneurysm in the store.
Floods by Libby Koponen is a very interesting book for fourth graders and up. Kids can learn a lot about floods from this quick, easy read of only 43 pages.
The book starts with a few true and false questions; the reader can find the answers later in the book. The book includes information about rice plants growing under water; how flooding can be good for the land in some places; and the sinking city of Venice, Italy.
Come into the library, and check out these new African-American authors:
A Drop of Water by Walter Wick is a science project book and photography art book in one. Through the beauty of astonishing close-up photography and simple text, art and science combine to explain concepts such as evaporation and condensation.
Do you want to learn how to eat more healthful foods, but don’t know where to start? On Thursday, July 8, at 2 p.m., a representative from Healthy Solutions will discuss what’s what in the produce department, and will have recipes available. Healthy Solutions is a nonprofit organization working to enhance the
lives of the underserved, underprivileged, and/or marginalized and to help them
make informed decisions about the food they eat.
All parents, teachers, nannies, and childcare providers are welcome to come to the Washington Highlands library every Monday at 10:30 a.m. Come and enjoy our summer reading baby/toddler story time program. Along with our regular summer entertainment, we will share some reading activities of our Sing Talk and Read (STAR) Program.
This program introduces literacy to children through the use of book sharing with parents, teachers, librarians and childcare providers. The STAR program is about sharing the six early literacy skills that prepares children to be ready to learn by the time they start school. Feel free to join in on learning about the next early literacy skill-Print Awareness. You will learn how to teach your baby/toddler that print has meaning, how to handle books, and how print is all around us.
