May is Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month, so what better month to enjoy any of these awesome books for kids? Books for younger kids: Astrid and Apollo and the Starry Campout by V.T. Bidania (2020). This easy reader chapter book is about Hmong twins Astrid and Apollo is perfect for starry summer nights. Check [...]
Working at the Library, I get asked about Test Prep materials a LOT. Kids, Teens and Adults ask about books for ACT, SAT, ASVAB, Nursing exams, and more. I have to tell them that we don’t have as many books as we would like, because the material changes so much faster than what we can [...]
Today Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. In the spirit of that joy, I have a fun booklist: Uzma Jalaluddin's first book, a retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in her hometown of Toronto, got excellent reviews and it's easy to see why. Ayesha Shamsi is still [...]
Summer Reading Program - Learning Colors Your World Here at The Floyd County Library, our Summer Reading Program has always been one of the highlights of our year. And it's starting again soon! You can preregister now for our 2021 Summer Reading Program: Learning Colors Your World, which will run June [...]
May 6 is International No Diet Day. Created by eating disorder survivor Mary Evans Young in 1992, No Diet Day is a celebration of body acceptance, which includes fat acceptance and body shape diversity. If you want to know more about body acceptance and/or rejecting diet culture, check out these books at your library: The [...]
Join us Tuesday, May 4 for Star Wars Trivia at 7 PM. A "bonus round" of our monthly Virtual Trivia Nights, this fast-paced contest will cover a mix of questions from the nine films in the main series as well as some spin-off titles including Solo, Rogue One and The Mandalorian. We'll be using Kahoot trivia [...]
Today, the Galena Branch Crew is taking over the staff blog. We would like to introduce you to our little corner of the library world! The Galena Digital Branch of the Floyd County Library System has been open since September 2018. Even though we are situated in an old house built way back in 1843, [...]
My New Year's resolution this year was to try at least 50 new recipes. It's been such a fun project and of course I am using our library to help. I like to own cookbooks so I can take my time going through them and refer back to my favorite recipes, but they can be [...]
Like a lot of people, I got into houseplants this year. Over the course of four months, I went from having zero houseplants to having nine. Novice plant owners need information, so I've made a little collage of resources that I hope will be as helpful to you as they were to me. Practical houseplant [...]
Representation matters, and I think that’s especially true for children. For World Autism Awareness month, I've chosen to explore some children and middle grade books that represent children who experience autism, as well as siblings of children that experience autism. You can check out any of these books, and more, here at the Floyd County [...]
