Test your knowledge of books that have been banned and challenged by matching books to their challenges, deciphering emoji book titles, and more!
Learn about the annual Top 10 list, listen to a read aloud of (at least) one of this year's most frequently challenged books, and discuss the reason we celebrate Banned Books Week every year.
No prior Banned Books Week knowledge needed to participate. For more information on Banned Books Week, visithttps://bannedbooksweek.org/
Open to Middle & High School Students. Registration required. Zoom link will be sent out via email once you have registered.
Test your knowledge of books that have been banned and challenged by matching books to their challenges, deciphering emoji book titles, and more!
Learn about the annual Top 10 list, listen to a read aloud of (at least) one of this year's most frequently challenged books, and discuss the reason we celebrate Banned Books Week every year.
No prior Banned Books Week knowledge needed to participate. For more information on Banned Books Week, visithttps://bannedbooksweek.org/
Open to Middle & High School Students. Registration required. Zoom link will be sent out via email once you have registered.
Presented by Jane Oneail of Culturally Curious via Zoom
Whether it is a bustling city or a Cape Cod beach, Edward Hopper’s iconic paintings capture a feeling of stillness and quiet tension. Learn more about Hopper’s career, early influences and how his work relates to the work of other artists from the same generation.
Registration required to receive the Zoom link and passcode
Presented by Jane Oneail of Culturally Curious via Zoom
Whether it is a bustling city or a Cape Cod beach, Edward Hopper’s iconic paintings capture a feeling of stillness and quiet tension. Learn more about Hopper’s career, early influences and how his work relates to the work of other artists from the same generation.
Registration required to receive the Zoom link and passcode
A virtual author visit with Maynard's own Julie Berry to celebrate her new middle grade book Wishes and Wellingtons. Julie is also the author of Lovely War, The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, All the Truth That's in Me, and many more books for children and teens.
Register for the Zoom event to receive the link out a few days before the event.
A virtual author visit with Maynard's own Julie Berry to celebrate her new middle grade book Wishes and Wellingtons. Julie is also the author of Lovely War, The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, All the Truth That's in Me, and many more books for children and teens.
Register for the Zoom event to receive the link out a few days before the event.
We're excited that the legendary Jack Gantos will be virtually visiting the Maynard Library on Saturday, October 3, 2020 @ 3pm!
He is the author of over 50 picture, middle grade, and YA books! As he describes it, "His work can lead readers from the cradle to the grave."
His works include the Rotton Ralph picture book series, the middle grade Joey Pigza series, including The Key that Swallowed Joey Pigza (2014), Dead End in Norvelt (2011) and it's sequel, From Norvelt to Nowhere (2013), The Trouble in Me (2015), and his latest book Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories (2018).
Visit https://www.portersquarebooks.com/book/9781250222985 to order a copy of Writing Radar with a signed bookplate from Porter Square Books.
The Zoom link will be sent to everyone who registered a few days before the event.
We're excited that the legendary Jack Gantos will be virtually visiting the Maynard Library on Saturday, October 3, 2020 @ 3pm!
He is the author of over 50 picture, middle grade, and YA books! As he describes it, "His work can lead readers from the cradle to the grave."
His works include the Rotton Ralph picture book series, the middle grade Joey Pigza series, including The Key that Swallowed Joey Pigza (2014), Dead End in Norvelt (2011) and it's sequel, From Norvelt to Nowhere (2013), The Trouble in Me (2015), and his latest book Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories (2018).
Visit https://www.portersquarebooks.com/book/9781250222985 to order a copy of Writing Radar with a signed bookplate from Porter Square Books.
The Zoom link will be sent to everyone who registered a few days before the event.
