Books to Help With Mother’s Day Gifts

If you’re stuck on what to get your mom or mother figure in your life for Mother’s Day, here are some books to help you make handmade gifts and goodies.

Mother’s Day Gifts / Anastasia Suen

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Easy to follow mother’s day gift craft instructions for maker spaces, home activities, and classrooms.

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The daily cookie : 365 tempting treats for the sweetest year of your life / Anna Ginsberg

Collects a year’s worth of cookie recipes with a range of chewy, crispy, brownie-style, no-bake, vegan, and gluten-free options and shares culinary anecdotes, baking trivia, and tribute options for historical and pop-culture anniversaries.

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Kids cook 1-2-3: recipes for young chefs using only 3 ingredients / Rozanne Gold

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Using only three ingredients in each recipe, this simple cookbook teaches children how to make a collection of treats for every meal of the day, such as creamy tomato soup and fresh cherries with chocolate fondue.

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No bake makery : more than 80 two-bite treats made with lovin’, not an oven / Cristina Suarez Krumsick

Features recipes for making quick, easy, and tasty desserts and treats that do not require baking, including truffles, clodhoppers, barks, fudges, bars, cold treats, puddings, candy, mini pies, cookies, and cakes.

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Photocraft : things to do with the pictures you love / Caroline Herter, Laurie Frankel and Laura Lovett

Simple and stylish ways to use and display photographs.

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Cool stuff for family & friends / Pam Scheunemann

Features how-to guides on making handmade crafts, including coasters, necklaces, and mouse pads.

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Accessory projects for a lazy crafternoon / Stella Fields

Step-by-step instructions help readers create fashion accessories (alone or with friends) using basic craft supplies.

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Super simple pressed flower projects: fun and easy crafts inspired by nature / Kelly Doudna

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Loom magic! : 25 awesome, never-before-seen designs for an amazing rainbow of projects / John McCann & Becky Thomas

Provides twenty-five rubber band loom projects, from key rings and pendants to cell phone cases and slingshots.

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Books Coming to Screens: April 2024

Someone like you / Karen Kingsbury

Someone Like You (2024)

Based on the novel by #1 NYTimes bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, “Someone Like You” is an achingly beautiful love story. After the tragic loss of his best friend, a grieving young architect launches a search for her secret twin sister.

April 2nd/ Theatres/ Put on hold

The talented Mr. Ripley/ Patricia Highsmith

(Ripley)

Ripley

A grifter named Ripley living in New York during the 1960s is hired by a wealthy man to begin a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.

April 4th/ Netflix/ Put on hold

The Tearsmith / Erin Doom

The Tearsmith

Sometimes our greatest fear is accepting that someone can honestly love us for who we are. Nica and Rigel are ready to find it out together.

April 4th/ Netflix

Parasyte/ Hitoshi Iwaaki

Parasyte: The Grey

A group of humans wage war against the rising evil of unidentified parasitic life-forms that live off of human hosts and strive to grow their power

April 5th/ Netflix/ Put on hold

Scoops by Sam McAlister

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How the BBC obtained the bombshell interview with Prince Andrew about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

April 5th/ Netflix

 Wallbanger/ Alice Clayton

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Caroline, a single interior designer, moves into what seems like the perfect apartment only to be awakened nightly by her neighbor, the ‘wallbanger,’ sparking an unexpected, tension-filled connection.

April 11th/ Passionflix/ Put on hold

A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America/ Stacy Schiff

(Franklin)

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Explores the story of one of the greatest gambles of Franklin’s career. At age 70, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies and French informers while engineering the Franco-American alliance of 1778.

April 12th/ Apple TV

The Sympathizer / Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sympathizer

Near the end of the Vietnam War, a plant who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community, where he continues to secretly spy and report back to the Viet Cong.

April 12th/ HBO/ Put on hold

Under the Bridge / Rebecca Godfrey

Under the Bridge

Reena Virk, a fourteen-year-old girl went to join friends at a party and never returned home. Seven teenage girls and a boy were accused of the savage murder.

April 17th/ Hulu

The Spiderwick Chronicles/ Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Follows the Grace Family, as they move into their ancestral home and unravel a dark mystery about their great-great Uncle who discovered the parallel, secret faerie world to their own.

April 19th/ RokuChannel/ Put on hold

Force of nature / Jane Harper

Force of Nature: The Dry 2

Five women participate in a hiking retreat but only four come out the other side. Federal agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper head into the mountains hoping to find their informant still alive.

April 19th/ Theatres/ Put on hold

Churchill’s Secret Warriors/ Damien Lewis

(The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare)

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

The British military recruits a small group of highly-skilled soldiers to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II.

April 19th/ Theatres

Dead Boy Detectives

Dead Boy Detectives

Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine decided not to enter the afterlife to stay on earth and investigate crimes that involve supernatural stuff.

April 25th/ Netflix/ Put on hold

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2024 Reading Challenge: A book in verse or a book of poems

Are you participating in the 2024 Reading Challenge? We have 12 challenges to complete throughout the year and every month we’ll feature one of the challenge prompts. This month we’re featuring the prompt “Read a book in verse or a book of poems.” Listed below are just a few books that fit the prompt but there are plenty of other books you can pick up! 

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Poetry Collections

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An American sunrise : poems /Poems to live your life by / Claw the System: Poems from the Cat Uprising /Solstice to solstice to solistice : a year of sunrises in poetry / Shout : a poetry memoirMusic I once could dance to

YA Books in Verse

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Alma presses play / Me (Moth) /We are all so good at smiling / Wings in the wild / African TownMuted 

JF Books in Verse

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Aniana del Mar jumps in /Rez dogs / Odder /AloneRed, white, and wholeRima’s rebellion : courage in a time of tyranny

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Books with Autistic Representation

The month of April is World Autism Month. There are many people in the world with autism and oftentimes they can be overlooked by society. Take time this month, and every month, to accept and lift up voices of those with autism. Below are some books featuring characters on the autistic spectrum.

 

Picture Books

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A friend for Henry / My brother CharlieIt was supposed to be sunnyBenji, the bad day, and meLooking after Louis 

Middle Grade

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Rain reign /A kind of spark / The someday birds / Planet earth is blue / On the edge of gone

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 The London Eye mystery  / Mockingbird / A boy called Bat / Ellen outside the linesSpeak up!

Young Adult

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What to say next / The many half-lived lives of Sam Sylvester / Unseelie / The secret life of Kitty GrangerWhen my heart joins the thousand

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Something more /The spirit bares its teethQueens of geek Here’s how I see it : here’s how it is / The state of grace 

Adult

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Act your age, Eve Brown / The kiss quotient / Ginny MoonThe bride testInto the drowning deep

 

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