Books to Movies and TV Coming This April

A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll

A Kind of Spark - BYUtv

Addie, an autistic girl tries to get her village to make a memorial to the women who were put on trial for witchcraft there whom she believes were likely just autistic like her.

April 2nd/ BCC and BYUtv / Put on hold

 

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

The Crossover

The boys come of age on and off the court as their former pro-baller father adjusts to life after basketball and matriarch mother finally gets to pursue dreams of her own.

April 4th/ Disney Channel and Disney + / Put on hold

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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A woman is unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life.

April 7th/ Select Theatres and Apple TV/ Put on hold

 

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

Tiny Beautiful Things

Follows a woman who reluctantly becomes Dear Sugar. She is an anonymous revered advice columnist even when her own life is falling apart.

April 7th/ Hulu/ Put on hold

 

Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

Beautiful Disaster

College freshman, Abby, tries to distance herself from her dark past while resisting her attraction to bad boy, Travis.

April 12th/ Put on hold

 

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

The Last Thing He Told Me

A woman forms an unexpected relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter while searching for the truth about why her husband has mysteriously disappeared.

April 14th/ Apple TV+/ Put on hold

 

Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin

Saint X

Explores how a young woman’s mysterious death creates a traumatic ripple effect that ultimately pulls her surviving sister into a dangerous pursuit of the truth.

April 26th/ Hulu/ Put on hold

 

Love & Death (Evidence of Love)

Love & Death

Two churchgoing couples enjoy small town family life in Texas – until somebody picks up an axe.

April 27th / HBO Max 

 

Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams

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A frontier epic about an Ivy League drop-out as he travels to the Colorado wilderness, where he joins a team of buffalo hunters on a journey that puts his life and sanity at risk.

April 27th / HBO Max / Put on Hold

 

Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel

Frog and Toad
The story of two friends, a frog and a toad, based on the popular children’s books by Arnold Lobel.

April 28th/ Apple TV+/ Put on hold

 

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

April 28th/ Theatres/ Put on hold

 

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Amazon cover imagePeter Pan & Wendy

Live-action adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s classic tale of a boy who wouldn’t grow up and recruits three young siblings in London to join him on a magical adventure to the enchanted Neverland island.

April 28th / Disney +/ Put on hold

 

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Tom Jones

Tom Jones is a man in his early life trying to find a place in the world.

April 30th/ PBS/ Put on hold

 

 

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Comic Club Spotlight #5

We had another comic club meeting on March 28th! Here are just a few of the comics made during the meeting. And we also had someone bring in their own boardgame! Click on the titles to view the full comics.

 

Emerson’s Comic

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Minecraft by Thomas

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The Sound by Nolan

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Sonic Heroes Team Game by Caleb

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The next meeting will be April 26th @ 4:30! We welcome new member so feel free to just stop by!

And check out our page here for comic club updates and a backlog of comics from the previous meetings.

 

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Books For Ramadan and Eid

Ramadan (also called Eid ul Fitr) begins the evening of March 22nd and ends at sundown on April 21st. This is a very important holiday for Muslim families and communities all over the world. Take some time this month learning more about the holiday, and reading books with characters who celebrate it.

 

Picture Books

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The gift of Ramadan / Moon’s Ramadan / Lailah’s lunchbox / The Night of the Moon / Zahra’s blessing /

 

Early Readers

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Ramadan /Ramadan cookies / Eid surprises

 

Middle Grade

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Accidental trouble magnet / Amina’s voice / Meet Yasmin! / Barakah Beats

 

Young Adult

Salaam, with love / Yes no maybe so / Once upon an Eid

 

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