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Are you ready to read this week? How about some books just like us! That means ones like you too! 

It's a New Year, and a perfectly good new time to learn about the Handley Regional Library System Digital Library! We are kicking off 2021 with a monthly series called "Database Spotlights" where we will highlight one of our databases, specifically focusing on youth and families. Do you want support when it comes to Homework Help? Are you looking to build your research skills? Let us share the wonders of our Digital Library with you and your family! Learn about some of our online databases that you can access for free with your library card. 

Are you ready to read this week? This week we celebrate one of our favorite snow-loving animals: Penguins! 

Our middle grade book spotlight this week is focused on books that explore aspects of Civil Rights history.  Books are amazing tools to learn from as we explore parts of our history; they provide an opportunity to learn, explore, understand other points of view, and help us to understand and glean from the past.  As we remember Martin Lu

Are you ready to read this week? It’s cold outside so we’re getting all bundled up from our hats to our boots!

Our middle grade book spotlight this week is all about graphic novels!!!  Graphic novels are amazing in that they are so visual allowing you to not only read the story but to see it as well!  I love graphic novels because they offer something for everyone; there are fiction titles as well as nonfiction and even written story retellings.  If you are looking to

Are you ready to read this week? With the snow falling, you may just see some interesting tracks in the snow. Who made them?

It is our first Middle Grade Book Spotlight for 2021 and if you have a goal for this new year of wanting to learn about something new or expanding your current knowledge base then this week’s theme is here to help!! Our Middle Grade book spotlight this week is on more amazing nonfiction titles!

We have finally reached the end of 2020 and it is now time to start setting those goals and thinking about what we want to accomplish in the next year.  If you have a goal to read more books or even just to finish one, then this week’s middle grade book spotlight is perfect to help you jumpstart that mission.  Our middle grade book spotlight this week is on chapter books that are the first books in a series!!  I think one of the best ways to find yourself reading more is to fall in love with a series that has multiple titles.  Some of the series we are featuring today ar

Our Middle Grade book spotlight this week is on books that feature holidays from this time of year as well as a little bit of cold weather.  Some of the holidays may be familiar to you as well as some you may have never heard of; we also have some titles that showcase how familiar holidays were celebrated in the past so we can see what traditions we still have and do not have today!  These books and more can be found by searching the catalog using the search tag

Our Middle Grade book spotlight this week is on books that are Novels in Verse!  Novels in verse are stories that are uniquely told through a series of poems instead of paragraphs; even if you are not the biggest f

Last week we baked some cookies, but left a special kind of cookie for a storytime of its own: Gingerbread!

Our Middle Grade book spotlight this week is on books that have either red or green covers so we can start to get into that holiday spirit!!  The amazing thing about this theme is it allows for a collection of book

We’re looking forward to some seasonal baking and our favorite is baking cookies! We have some great suggestions for some cookie baking books, whether you like to bake, decorate, or just eat cookies! 

Our Middle Grade book spotlight this week is on new books that have come in over the past couple of weeks, because let’s be honest--there is just something awesome about being the first one to read a new book!  We have so many coming in that I could not wait to talk about and share some of the titles you will find on the shelf.  The books featured in this week’s bo