Programs

Last update July 23, 2008

Catch the Reading Bug

= Summer Reading Program for children up to 11 years old =
This program runs from June 26 to August 6.
Here's how it works:

  • Read 20 books to earn a prize.
  • Magazines and audio books count as "reading."
  • Reading out loud with someone else counts as "reading."
  • Reading to a younger child counts as "reading."
  • If you read books that are more than 100 pages long, every 100 pages counts as one book.
  • Record the books you have read or listened to on the Reading Log.
  • Make a copy of your completed Log and bring it to the library to collect your prize. Children 3 and  younger receive a box of "Bug Bites" graham crackers (one box per family). Children age 4 to 11 receive a prize bag, including a "Catch the Reading Bug" t-shirt.

Metamorphosis @ Your Library

= Summer Reading Program for teens 12 to 18 years old =
This program runs from June 26 to August 6.
Here's how it works:

  • Read 20 books to be entered in ou r prize drawing. We're giving away coupons for ice cream, pizza and wings, gift cards to your favorite stores, passes to the movies and Darien Lake, and an MP3 player!
  • Magazines and audio books count as "reading."
  • Reading out loud with someone else counts as "reading."
  • Reading to a younger child counts as "reading."
  • If you read books that are more than 100 pages long, every 100 pages counts as one book.
  • Record the books you have read or listened to on the Reading Log. If a book has more than 100 pages, then record it on the appropriate number of lines to correspond with one book for every 100 pages.
  • Fill in all contact information on your Reading Log and bring a copy of it to the library be entered in the prize drawing. The prize drawing will take place on August 13; you do not have to be present to win.

Wii - Guitar Hero - Dance Dance Revolution

Wednesdays, July 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 from Noon to 1:00 pm
Thursdays, June 26, July 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 from Noon to 1:00 pm
Mendon Public Library, 15 Monroe Street, Honeoye Falls
For age 6 and up

Cool off in our air-conditioning and challenge your friends to one of these great video games!

Story Time

Mondays, June 30, July 7, 14, 21 and 28 from 10:30-11:00 am
Pinehurst Senior Living Community, 1000 Pine Trail, Honeoye Falls
For ages 3 to 7

Story times will feature different guest readers, including story teller Ina Doyle. We'll sit outside on the grass so bring a blanket. If it's rainy we'll move indoors.

Cool Movie Tuesdays

Tuesdays, July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 and August 5 at 1:00 pm
Mendon Public Library
, 15 Monroe Street, Honeoye Falls
For ages 4 to 13

Need to get out of the heat? Bring a pillow and snack and enjoy a bug-themed movie in the library.

July 1: Bugs! A Rainforest Adventure (40 minutes) -- Rated G

July 8: James and the Giant Peach (1 hour 19 minutes) -- Rated PG

July 15: Herbie Fully Loaded (1 hour 42 minutes) -- Rated G

July 22: Magic School Bus: Bugs, Bugs, Bugs (1 hour 22 minutes) -- Rated G

July 29: A Bug's Life (1 hour 35 minutes) -- Rated G

August 5: The Secret Garden (1 hour 42 minutes) -- Rated G

History in the Kitchen

Wednesday, July 23 from 6:30-7:30 pm
Mendon Community Center, 167 N. Main Street, Honeoye Falls
For age 8 and up

This moveable museum program is coordinated by Genesee Country Village and Museum. A museum cook shows how she uses 19th century cookbooks, household inventories, cookware, kitchen utensils, diaries and letters to recreate menus of the past. You will also learn how people prepared, stored and served their food in those times.

Zoomobile: Cycles of Life - Metamorphosis

Friday, July 25 at 11:00 am
Pinehurst Senior Living Community, 1000 Pine Trail, Honeoye Falls
For age 5 and up

Joeys, cocoons and tadpoles, on my! Every living thing goes through a series of life stages that sometimes have funny names. Learn about these and other steps in mammal, insect and amphibian life cycles through this exciting new program.

Pottery Painters Plus

Tuesday, July 29 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
Mendon Fire Hall, 101 Mendon-Ionia Road
For all ages

Paint bugs on bowls, dishes, mugs, thumbprints and more! Create your own pottery masterpiece. It will be glazed, fired and returned to the library for you to pick up later. Pottery selection is available on a first come first served basis. Prices for pottery pieces vary but will average around $9.

The Story Lady

Thursday, July 31 from 11:00 am to Noon
Pinehurst Senior Living Community
, 1000 Pine Trail, Honeoye Falls
For age 3 and up

This program offers a refreshing approach to children's entertainment--a return to the timeless appeal of storytelling, songs and puppetry. The Story Lady's unique style and gift for narration will delight, entertain and spark the imagination of the audience. Children will hear new stories, sing familiar songs and see animal (and bug!) puppets come to life.

Just Clowning Around

*** PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION! ***

Wednesday, August 6
from 6:30-8:00 pm
Mendon Community Center
, 167 N. Main Street, Honeoye Falls
For all ages

Join us for this final event of the summer: a comedy magic show with a bug theme. It will be fun for the whole family!

Friends Membership and Library Note Cards



Give the gift of a Friends membership and receive a set of 12 beautiful notecards and envelopes. There are two cards each of six prior years of Friends paintings. Each painting depicts a scenic view of Honeoye Falls.

Friends membership categories include:
Senior/student -- $4
Regular -- $ 5
Supporting -- $10
Sponsor -- $25
Patron -- $50

*Notecards are available with a Sponsor or Patron membership.

A Friends membership helps support the many activities and resources offered at our library. It also allows the member early access to our popular, annual Friends booksale in June!

Quick Listens

GREAT for car trips!

We've added a special sticker to the spine labels of our children's books on tape and CD if they are less than 1 hour in length.

Look for these stickers to find audio books of 15, 30 and 45 minutes in duration.



And in many cases we also own the book so your child can follow along with the narrator and build literacy skills!

Here's a sample of some of our great short audio books for children:

15 Minutes
One Green Apple by Eve Bunting
Welcome to Zanzibar Road by Niki Daly
Love, Ruby Valentine by Laurie Friedman
Young Arthur by Robert D. San Souci
I Am a Phoenix--Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Petite Rouge--A Cajun Red Riding Hood by Mike Artell

30 Minutes
So You Want to Be an Inventor? by Judith St. George
Horrible Harry's Secret by Suzy Kline
Dracula vs. Grampa at the Monster Truck Spectacular by Kirk Scroggs
The Trellis and the Seed by Jan Karon
Cal Ripken, Jr. Play Ball! by Cal Ripken, Jr. and Mike Bryan
Trouble in the Barker's Class by Tomie dePaola

45 Minutes
Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the U.F.O. by David A. Adler
Akimbo and the Crocodile Man by Alexander McCall Smith
Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business by Barbara Park
Hiroshima by Laurence Yep
The King's Equal by Katherine Paterson
American Boy--The Adventures of Mark Twain by Don Brown

Adult Playaways

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
An Unfinished Life
Cross
Halsey's Typhoon
Kitchen Privileges, A Memoir
Marley & Me, Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
Mayflower
Motor Mouth
Nickel and Dimed, On (Not) Getting By In America
Night
Redeeming Love
The Bookseller of Kabul
The Glass Castle
The Kite Runner
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
The Number
The Quilter's Apprentice
The Secret Adversary
Wicked, The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
1984

Teen Playaways

Airborn
Artemis Fowl
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
Ghost Ship
Hoot
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Little Women
Lord of the Flies
The Outsiders
The Red Badge of Courage
Riders of the Purple Sage
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

Children's Playaway

Anne of Green Gables
Black Beauty
The Book of Pirates
Bridge to Terabithia
Charlotte's Web
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin and Other Stories
Classic Nursery Rhymes
The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter
Fat Cat and Friends
The Giver
Guardians of Ga'hoole: The Capture
Guardians of Ga'hoole: The Journey
Heidi
Inkheart
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Lionboy
Lionboy: The Chase
Lionboy: The Truth
Peter Pan
Rabbit Ears: Treasury of Fables
Robin Hood
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963

New YA and New Children's Displays

Our special displays of new YA and new children's materials make it easy for you to find new additions to our collections! The children's display is on the first floor (next to our Playaways display) and the YA display is upstairs. Here's what's included on each display:

Children's
J Fiction
J Series
Comic Books
J Nonfiction
J Biographies
J Books on CD

YA
YA Fiction
YA Series
Graphic Novels
YA Nonfiction
YA Biographies
YA Books on CD

Memorial Art Gallery Pass

Mendon Public Library partners with the Memorial Art Gallery to offer a Family Pass to the Gallery. With this pass, entrance to the Gallery is just $5 for an individual or family (of any number). Without the pass, general admission is $7 for adults, $2 for children 6 to 18 years, and free for children under 5 years.

This is a wonderful, low-cost way to expose your children (and a friend or two!) to the many shapes, colors and sizes of art.

Our Memorial Art Gallery Pass circulates for a one week period. It cannot be put on hold nor can it be renewed, and it must only be returned at Mendon Public Library.

Book Drop in Mendon

The book drop is conveniently located in the Mendon Meadows Mall, 51 Assembly Drive, just inside the second set of double doors.

Mall hours are 7 am to 9 pm every day.

The book drop is emptied three times per week. Items are discharged from the patron's record on the day they are picked up.