Happy Winter Break!

The library wishes you a wonderful Winter Break.

We are open during break! Check the newsletter for dates and times.

Thank you to our assistants for making our library so festive.  Our book tree has received many compliments.

Slime Time

The library makerspace has been busier than usual this week.  By student request, it was slime making week!  It's possible I may be banned from the supply room for excessive glue usage....

Thank you to the 6th graders who suggested this idea and also helped me adjust the slime recipe.  My first try at slime failed and the slime experts helped me fix the recipe.

HOW TO MAKE SLIME

Supplies:
Elmer’s Glue (a small handful)
2 pinches baking soda
1 squirt contact lens solution
glitter or food coloring

Instructions:

1. Pour out Elmer’s Glue into a bowl. 
2. Add color/glitter and mix.
3. Add 2 pinches of baking soda and mix quickly.
4. As your mixture starts to get sticky, add a squirt of contact lens solution.
5. Mix until slime forms.If it’s too sticky, add a bit more contact lens solution.
6. Wash the bowl and spoon. Take your slime home.

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.

But this year, Scarlett’s long-dreamt of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season’s Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner.

Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But she nevertheless becomes enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic with the other players in the game. And whether Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over, a dangerous domino effect of consequences is set off, and her sister disappears forever.

Welcome, welcome to Caraval . . . beware of getting swept too far away.

Why you should read this book:

• A magical, mysterious, fantasy with romance and adventure thrown in.
• Caraval is a best-seller and on a pick on the Teens Top Ten list this year.
• I stayed up late to finish this book.  It's one of my favorite new series of this year.
• It kept me guessing until the end.  And then...it still kept me guessing because it's a trilogy.  Book 2, Legendary, is on the way in our winter order and Book 3, Finale, comes out in May.

Find Caraval in our library at: FANTASY F GAR