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Looking for an opportunity to meet other homeschooled students in your age group? Activities in this club are designed for expressing creativity while providing a service to the community. January - Loom Hats & No-Sew Scarves for CCAPFebruary - Painting Canvases for Nursing HomesMarch - SPCA Toys for AnimalsApril - Handmade Stamped Thank You Notes for NursesAges 12-18. *Registration required.
Join us in participating in the "All the Feels" Youth Winter Reading Challenge located on our library website and on Beanstack.
In this emoji-themed reading challenge from January 1–31, readers of all ages will explore how reading helps process and express emotions with mindfulness by logging reading, completing activities, and writing book reviews. Each completion receives a badge and fills in a space on the virtual bingo card.
From reading and listening to writing an emoji-only book review…
How many of you have been patrons of the Handley Library long enough to remember a time before the Bowman Library branch existed? What are your memories of its building and its opening?
20 years ago, on November 4, 2000, the Winchester Hiram Lodge conducted a ceremony setting the cornerstone for the Bowman Library. The stone was taken from the Handley Library building during its 1999-2001 renovations, as a way of symbolizing the unity of the regional system.
Bowman opened eight months after…
This week’s theme for storytimes at the Handley Regional Library will be the moon and bedtime! Come enjoy some great stories and songs at any of our three library branches.
This Is the Way We Yawn & Stretch [tune:”Mulberry Bush” ]
This is the way we yawn and stretch,
Yawn and stretch, yawn and stretch.
This is the way we yawn and stretch,
On our way to bed.
This is the way we take a bath…
This is the way we read a book…
This is the way we hug and kiss…
This is the way we close…
Enter this baking competition to fight for your right to read during Banned Books Week. Bake a sweet treat that highlights a Banned Book. Not sure what a Banned Book is and/or which books are "banned"? Check out this resource from the American Library Association to get started: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10
All registrants receive a cake decorating kit and choice of rectangle or circle cake board. You will receive an email when you are able to pick up your…
Handley Regional Library System has expanded their STEAM-based (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) programs for kids with their new Girls Who Code Club. The series begins September 12th and runs through October 31st at Handley Library. Each session begins at 4PM and will focus on teaching coding in a fun environment just for girls. Registration is required and light snacks are provided. The program is free and open to the public. More information can be found online at www.…
The Virtual Summer Reading Finale for kids and teens is on August 8th starting at 11AM on Facebook at @handleyregional. The live program will feature a celebration of this year’s participants including top readers and number of books read.
So far, over 650 kids and teens have participated in the program with 7,996 books read by pre-readers and nearly 6,000 hours of reading by older readers and teens. Prizes, including book bundles, will be awarded and winners will be…
Join us for Brown Bag with Books. Our August discussion is on The Fourth Child by Jessica Winter.
We always have an interesting and fun discussion. All welcome!
To check out the book, click here.
To check out the audiobook, click here.
Book summary: Book-smart, devoutly Catholic, and painfully unsure of herself, Jane becomes pregnant in high school; by her early twenties, she is raising three children in the suburbs of western New York State. In the fall of 1991, as…
Poetry is a great example of Aristotle’s concept that “The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts.” Individual words have their meanings but when they are strung together using cadence and rhyme to form a poem, the “whole” is definitely greater. Poems connect the head to the heart, ideas to emotions, and our senses to places. If you have a book of poems, this is a great time to pull it off the shelf. If not, like most everything, you can find poems online.
The American Poetry Society has a…
Volunteers will be on hand to collect your gently used books (in good, clean condition), DVDs, music CDs, audiobooks on CD and electronic games in the Bowman Library parking lot. We wish we could accept every book that is donated, but we simply don't have the space! Many books we receive cannot be sold and it takes time and energy to deal with these donations. The Friends of HRLS is run on volunteer power, so please go through your donations before bringing them to us and discard items…