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How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana; with Abigail Pesta (click the title to sample the book)

Sandra Uwiringiyimana was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. The rebels had come at night — wielding weapons, torches, machetes. She watched as her mother and six-year-old sister were gunned down in a refugee camp, far from their home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels were killing people who weren’t from the same community, the same tribe. In other words, they were killing people simply for looking different. “Goodbye, life,” she said to the man ready to shoot her. Remarkably, the rebel didn’t pull the trigger, and Sandra escaped into the night. Thus began a new life for her and her surviving family members. With no home and no money, they struggled to stay alive. Eventually, through a United Nations refugee program, they moved to America, only to face yet another ethnic disconnect. Sandra may have crossed an ocean, but there was now a much wider divide she had to overcome. And it started with middle school in New York. In this memoir, Sandra tells the story of her survival, of finding her place in a new country, and of her hope for the future.

Welcome back to the 2017-2018 school year.
The library had a small renovation done over the summer. Stop by and check it out.
We are still open from 7:30-4:30, Monday – Friday.
As always, let us know if you need anything or have any questions.

This summer, the OverDrive Summer Read (http://resources.overdrive.com/summer-read) program will offer a collection of Juvenile and Young Adult titles that will be prominently displayed in our digital collection (https://kenaihsak.libraryreserve.com/) for quick and easy unlimited access from June 7 – August 7, 2017.
The titles below will be available during those 2 months!
Young Adult Collection:
     
Check out their website for Children’s books as well.

SYNC Audiobooks for teens is offering 2 audiobooks every week from April 27-August 16. You can set up text reminders so you don’t miss out. The audiobooks are your to keep but they are only available during their week.
Go to http://www.audiobooksync.com/ or TEXT “syncya” to 25827 to set up your alerts and check out all the titles!

This week they are the same book! You can read the actual book, read it online through Overdrive, or listen to the audiobook through Overdrive. Any way you experience it, the story will take you into the world of Steam Punk.
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger (click on the title to preview the book)

It’s one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It’s quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time, welcome to finishing school. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminnick is a great trial to her poor mother-her atrocious curtsy is an embarrassment to the pfamily name. So Mrs. Temminnick enrolls her daughter in Mademoiselle Geraldine’s FinishingAcademy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine’s, young ladies certainly learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage-in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year’s education. Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, this YA series debut is filled with all the same saucy adventure and droll humor Gail Carriger’s legions of fans have come to adore.

The BFG by Roald Dahl (Click on title to preview the book)

Captured by a giant!The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!

50 Cent (Click on title to preview the book)

Explores the life of the rap artist, covering his youth as a drug dealer, arrest, interest in the music business, and successful career as a rapper, and discusses how the birth of his son changed his life.

Extreme Parkour by Virginia Loh-Hagan (click on title to preview the book)

Extreme Parkour presents the thrills and spills of this intriguing extreme sport.

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent’s only gift seems to be that she makes other people’s talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own–and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.