April is National Poetry Month! One way to read poetry this month is to read a novel in verse. Here’s a list of a few to get you started, but head over to our catalog here to see more.
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.
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
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
Follows a woman who reluctantly becomes Dear Sugar. She is an anonymous revered advice columnist even when her own life is falling apart.
A woman forms an unexpected relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter while searching for the truth about why her husband has mysteriously disappeared.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
