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Programs
Last update July 23, 2008 |
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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:
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Read 20 books to earn a prize.
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Magazines and audio books count as "reading."
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Reading out loud with someone else counts as "reading."
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Reading to a younger child counts as "reading."
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If you read books that are more than 100 pages long, every 100 pages counts as one book.
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Record the books you have read or listened to on the Reading Log.
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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.
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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:
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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!
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Magazines and audio books count as "reading."
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Reading out loud with someone else counts as "reading."
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Reading to a younger child counts as "reading."
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If you read books that are more than 100 pages long, every 100 pages counts as one book.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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