Voorheesville Library Notes for Tuesday, November 1, 2022
The Voorheesville Library’s Middle School Book Club and the Tween Book Bunch will read about space travel this month, then enjoy National Aeronautics and Space Administration experiments, build rockets, and watch one launch.
As usual, our local community really came through for this annual donation drive. The Great Give Back recipients, Sleep in Heavenly Peace, have received over 70 sleep items through this library drive, as well as a generous amount of cash donations.
For those who missed this opportunity, you can still donate to this local not-for-profit. Sleep in Heavenly Peace is a volunteer organization that builds beds for kids (ages 3 to 17) who are sleeping on the floor. For more ways to be involved, visit www.shpbeds.org. Thank you all again for your generosity!
Teens Care
Community Service
Community service certificates will be provided for students in grades 8 and up who participate in “Hatsgiving”. Join us at 2 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11, to machine-sew fleece hats for pediatric cancer patients. We’ll be serving cookies and cocoa, to make you even sweeter. Please register online, so we know how many cookies we’ll need.
Book talks
We’ll be discussing these books in November:
— Fiction Book Discussion: , 11 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 16; and“Winter Counts” by David Heska Wanbi Weiden;
— Nonfiction Book Discussion: “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR” by Lisa Napoli, 1 p.m. and/or 6:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 14;
All discussions will be held in the library community room, unless otherwise stated. Please register online each month for any of these book discussions. Limited copies of some titles are available for $5, compliments of the Friends of the Library. Library copies will also be available for checkout and downloadable ebook and audiobook versions are on Overdrive.
Read and Explore:
Space Travel
The Middle School Book Club and the Tween Book Bunch will read about space travel this month, then enjoy NASA [National Aeronautics and Space Administration] experiments, build rockets, and watch one launch. Students in grades 4 to 8, please register and join us at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 27. Book choices: “The Challenger Disaster: Tragedy in the Skies” by Pranas T. Naujokaitis or “I Love You Michael Collins” by Lauren Baratz-Logsted. Books can be picked up at the MS or public library.
Game on
Students in kindergarten through fifth grade are invited to register for this Celebrate International Games Month at 10:30 a.m., Friday, Nov. 11. We’ll have group games, Minute Challenges, Switch games on the big screen, board and card games galore.
Teen Time:
Game Day
Students in grades 6 and up are invited to come to the library at 3 p.m., Friday, Nov. 4, to celebrate International Games Week. We’ll play Switch videogames on the big screen, geeky tabletop games, and group games. Snacks will be provided. Please register online.
Winter Boutique
donations needed
The Friends of the Library are looking for donations for the annual Winter Boutique. They are looking for: jewelry, purses, wallets, winter linens, ornaments, frames, decorative serving dishes, scarves, hats, and gloves. They will be accepting donations from Monday, Nov. 28, through Wednesday, Nov. 30, at the library. Call the library for specific times.
Early closure
The library will close at 5 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11, in observance of Veterans Day.