Kids ages 9 and older are invited to meet on the fourth Wednesdays of the month (unless otherwise noted) after school from 3:30-4:15. Each meeting includes a game, craft, or activity, and usually includes a snack. Please join us if you have read the book or are interested in joining for future meetings.
This month’s Brentwood Bookworms selection will be Number the Stars by Lois Lowry:
/* Starred Review */ The author of the Anastasia books as well as more serious fiction (Rabbi Starkey, 1987) offers her first historical fiction–a story about the escape of the Jews from Denmark in 1943. Five years younger than Lisa in Matas’ book (below), Annemarie Johansen has, at ten, known three years of Nazi occupation. Though ever cautious and fearful of the ubiquitous soldiers, she is largely unware of the extent of the danger around her; the Resistance kept even its participants safer by telling them as little as possible, and Annemarie has never been told that her older sister Lise died in its service. When the Germans plan to round up the Jews, the Johansens take in Annemarie’s friend, Ellen Rosen, and pretend she is their daughter; later, they travel to Uncle Hendrik’s house on the coast, where the Rosens and other Jews are transported by fishing boat to Sweden. Apart from Lise’s offstage death, there is little violence here; like Annemarie, the reader is protected from the full implications of events–but will be caught up in the suspense and menace of several encounters with soldiers and in Annemarie’s courageous run as courier on the night of the escape. The book concludes with the Jews’ return, after the war, to homes well kept for them by their neighbors. A deftly told story that dramatizes how Danes appointed themselves bodyguards–not only for their king, who was in the habit of riding alone in Copenhagen, but for their Jews. (Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 1989)
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Get some help on your homework from our friendly and knowledgeable tutors at the Ferguson Public Library! They can help kids from kindergarten on up. No registration required!
Dogs make the best listeners! Stop by the library to read your favorite book to dogs from Support Dogs, Inc. Event is free and open to children and families.
Interested in robots? Want to know what makes a computer work? Learn how at our Robotics and Coding Class for Kids at the Ferguson Public Library! Learn robotics with the help of a Lego robot, and then learn how to code your own computer programs in our 16-week course.
Space is limited! Register today!
Thursday class is for kids in elementary grades only.
Join us at the Maplewood Public Library for this fun group. Just bring your needles, your yarn, and you can craft with others who love crafting. This is not instructional but while you are with fellow crafters, you can help each other.
Decorate a flower pot for yourself or a special someone for the April Kids Craft! We will be meeting at the Brentwood Community Center. All Kids Craft events are free and open to children and families.
Unwind, relax, and flex your creative muscles at the Ferguson Public Library on the fourth Friday of each month with Crafternoon! Registration is required, and space is limited. For more information and to sign up, please call the library at (314) 521-4820.
