Fourteen-month-old Diya Nitin proudly points to her favorite board book, My Car by Byron Barton. It’s a book her mother Sowmya Bali says she’s probably read to Diya every day since early summer – and sometimes multiple readings in a day. Diya chose this book herself after she and her family reached the 10-hour reading …
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Sometimes the most wonderfully unexpected things happen when you’re at the library. And when it does, it can lead you in many exciting new directions. Myla Osborn had such an experience this year when she was invited by friends to attend a screening of Disney’s docu-movie, The Queen of Katwe, at Lyric Cinema. The movie …
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For many local elementary and middle school students, the 2016-17 school year started with an exciting personal reading challenge: to read 40 books, from across a variety of genres, by the end of the school year! While 40 books might seem like a lofty goal, if these readers are anything like the ones the Library …