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LC & JP Public Library Fairy Tale Adventures Join us on December 7, 2019 to listen to The Three Little Pigs read aloud followed by fairy tale centers with crafts, games, and STEM activities. Your children will love it! Please got to our website for more information on Elementary Age Saturday programs.

LC & JP Public Library Proudly Presents: A Twist in the Tale Please register early for this program. Patrons will learn the basics of creating their own graphic novel, including comic sketches, creating panels, and planning out the story. The culmination of the program will be a short graphic novel by each patron, specifically taking an original fairy tale and making it their own. Please see our website for more information on Tween/Teen programs. 

LC & JP Public Library proudly presents... Things That Talk & Creepy Creatures Come experience a magical Storywalk around the grounds of Sunrise State Park while reading Jack and the Beanstalk. Children will plant magical beans, add water, and make three wishes. You may even see a giant or two! Explore our website for more information on this program and more!

 LC & JP Public Library Proudly Presents: Once Upon A Fairy Tale Program... Please join us in the month of December for our magical fairy tale program. We will have events appropriate for each age group on different days. Our age groups are Infants/Toddlers Tuesdays (Ages 0-3)  ; Preschool Fridays (Ages 3-5); Elementary Age Saturdays (Ages 5-10); and Tween/Teen Thursdays (Ages 11-18).  Please see our website for dates, times, and details. You won't want to miss all the fun!

Bibliography: Krosoczka, Jarrett, J. Lunch Lady and the Schoolwide Scuffle . New York: Random House Children's Books, 2014. ISBN 9780385752794 Plot Summary: The school has been taken over by convicts. They are up to no good. The kids look for the lunch lady to help get things back to normal. There is definitely a scuffle involving a food fight before all is resolved. Critical Analysis: Jarrett J. Krosoczka created a fun and somewhat educational graphic novel where the lunch lady is the hero of the school. Well, who can blame him? The lunch ladies are important to the school community. Her sidekick is another lunch lady that knows her way around technology. Together they have protected the school from villains in the other nine books in this series. The Schoolwide Scuffle is the tenth and last book in this series. I suggest reading all the books in chronological order to help you understand the past villains that are included in this book. However, it is not a must b...

Bibliography: Barnhill, Kelly, R. The Girl Who Drank the Moon . North Carolina: Algonquin Young Readers, a division of Workman Publishing, 2016. ISBN 9781616205676 Plot Summary: A baby is sacrificed to the witch to protect the townspeople of  the Protectorate. This is tradition passed down from generation to generation. The people have never seen the witch, but they are told to sacrifice the babies to keep the witch from harming the others. The witch is actually nice and caring. She gives the sacrificed babies a new home. All except for Luna, due to accidentally giving her the magic from the moon to eat. The witch, Xan, cared for the "enmagicked" Luna as if she were her very own granddaughter. Luna's magic was out of control, so Xan put a spell on Luna to make her sleep until she was thirteen. She hoped this would give Luna the time to mature before destroying the forest and everything in it. This would also prolong Xan's life to give her time to figure ou...