Richmond Public Library

October at the Richmond Public Library might get a little busy at least towards the end of the month.

October 9th through the 11th the librarians will be in Topeka at the State Library conference.

October 11th and 12th is the Library garage sale, to be held at the Richmond Community Building. The sale will be from 3:00 to 7:00 Pm on Friday and 8:00 Am to 3:00 PM on Saturday.

There will also be a Soup and Chili Supper on Saturday, October 12th from 4:00 to 7:00 PM

Thursday, October 24th the teens will be making wire mummies and eyeball cakepops at 4:00

     

Friday, October 25th the adults will be making mason jar lid pumpkins at 1:00 PM.

Wednesday, October 30th the Story Time kids will be Trick-or-Treating the Central Street businesses.

Wednesday, October 30th the younger kids will be making Skeletons, monsters and cakesickle ghosts at 4:00 PM.

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BANNED BOOKS WEEK
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Sept. 22 – 28, 2013
List of the top ten challenged books of 2012

1.    Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey.Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group
2.    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie.Reasons: Offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group
3.    Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher.Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, suicide, unsuited for age group
4.    Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James.Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit
5.    And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson.Reasons: Homosexuality, unsuited for age group
6.    The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.Reasons: Homosexuality, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
7.    Looking for Alaska, by John Green.Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group
8.    Scary Stories (series), by Alvin SchwartzReasons: Unsuited for age group, violence
9.    The Glass Castle, by Jeanette WallsReasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit
10.    Beloved, by Toni MorrisonReasons: Sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence…

There are two [2] Friday the 13th this year, one in September and one in December.  Are you superstitious? Or is it just another day? Either way the library may have some fun books you could read on the subject. Come in and see what we have.

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Summer Reading has ended and the kids are back in school. I know we did not get pictures on here for all our events this summer. We were having some camera difficulties. The problem has been fixed, but we did lose some of our pictures. So instead of the weekly event pictures I have decided to just post some random Summer Reading 2013 pictures.

We ended the summer with a Gnome Hunt for the younger kids. They had to find the Gnome, decifer the clue and find the treasure box.

The Teens has a Cake Pop party for their ending party.

All done till next summer!…