Yeti for Reading
We begin our Winter Reading Program December 1 2024! We will have five age groups and each group will have three baskets to choose from. You will read, get tickets, and place your tickets into whichever basket or baskets you want. At the end of January 2025, we will draw the winner for each basket. If you have any questions, please ask Bonnie, Gloria, or Heidi at the library.
Story Hour
Story Hour is Tuesday beginning at 10am. we have stories, poetry by Lyndi, crafts, and snacks. Come join us for fun, fun, fun!
"The Book of Lost Friends" by Lisa Wingate
Due to a high demand for The Frozen River" we have chosen to table it for a later time. We have chosen instead "The Book of Lost Friends" by Lisa Wingate as our next Book Discussion Book. Synopsis: Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual “Lost Friends” advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away. Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia’s Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery’s end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope. Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt—until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything. Our discussion will be Thursday March 6th at 7pm at the Kaycee Branch Library in the meeting room. Come join us!