National Poetry Month: Literary Biographies
April is National Poetry Month! The library has lots of great poetry books that you can check out, but sometimes the life of a literary figure is just as amazing […]
April is National Poetry Month! The library has lots of great poetry books that you can check out, but sometimes the life of a literary figure is just as amazing […]
Our One City, One Story book Orphan Train is not for children, but the historical events Christina Baker Kline writes about, orphaned children being sent on trains to the Midwest to find families, […]
One of the two main characters of Orphan Train, Molly Ayer, is a 17-year-old Penobscot Indian woman, who has spent her life in and out of foster care in Maine. […]
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, our One City, One Story pick for 2016, tells the story of Vivian, a young girl who is sent to the Midwest on a train […]
The 2016 One City, One Story selection, Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline tells the story of a young orphan girl who is taken from New York to the Midwest on […]
On Thursday 1/28 the Pasadena Public Library will be having Robert Haw, a physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and co-founder of the Pasadena Foothills chapter of the Citizens Climate Lobby, speaking […]
It’s National Bird Day so grab a book and learn more about these amazing small flying dinosaur descendants. Whether your tastes run to ravens, goshawks, or parrots, the library has […]
‘Tis the season for Christmas books full of cheer, hilarity, and heartwarming (and occasionally heart-stopping) scenes. We all know and love so many wonderful Christmas books for kids and adults […]
Are you the only person in your family who won’t be eating grandma’s thanksgiving turkey? Or is your turn to host Thanksgiving and you’re the only Vegan? If so, no […]
It’s Dinovember, the month when people all over the internet celebrate the awesomeness of dinosaurs by posing toy dinosaurs in different situations, taking pictures, and putting them online for everyone […]