June 2008

We are now taking registrations for the Summer Reading Program. We have Reading Clubs, Wednesday Morning Fun, and Special Family events. Call the Library at 998-4390, or check out our home page, for more information.

Once again the Friends of the Ricker Memorial Library will be making available at a reduced price entrance to the Gray Animal Farm. Call the Library for more information.

Ricker Memorial Library now has "graphic books" in it's collection for children of all ages. These are  books that tell the information mainly through pictures. We have both fiction and non-fiction books. Following is a list of these titles. We are happy to take additional requests.

FICTION

      By David Wiesner: Flotsam

                                        7 Sector

                                        Tuesday

      By Donald Lemke: Captured off Guard; The Attack on Pearl Harbor

      By Scott Lobdell: The Hardy Boys; Under Cover Brothers

      By Cecil Castelluci: The Plain Janes

      By Brian Selznick: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

      Graphic Planet, Graphic Horror: Frankenstein

                                                                The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

                                                                Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

                                                                Mummy

NON-FICTION

     By Keiji Nakazawa: Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima, Volumes one and two

     By Matt Doeden: The Battle of the Alamo

                                    The Boston Tea Party

                                    The Sinking of the Titanic

     By Kay M. Olson: The Assassination of  Abraham Lincoln

     By Michael Martin: The Salem Witch Trials

                                       Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

     By Michael Bergan: The Curse of King Tut's Tomb