Raising Financially Responsible Children
For parents of children ages 2-18.
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Join this lively book group of students in grades 6th-9th and their parents, find extra books at the front desk of the Manchester Public Library waiting for you.
The Sawyer Free Library will host an afternoon of Wii, Wii DDR, and Guitar Hero 5. Teens in grades 6-9 are invited to attend.
The Friends of Abbot Library will present "Native Americans in Marblehead" with Donald A. Doliber. The talk will focus on the town's early inhabitants with information about the Paleo-Indian settlement. Doliber’s presentation also will include an archeological demonstration and a question-and-answer period.
This program will take place in the Library’s Meeting Room. Refreshments will be provided.
Kids join Sara Collins for hands-on student activities based on her webinars with NASA's polar ice and global climate studies. The variety of topics and explainations will include learning about properties of ice, insulation in the arctic, thawing in polar regions and finish with an opportunity for some polar inspired art.
Each station will be hands-on, slightly messy, and let kids get kids minds and mitts on the matter of exploring polar regions.
Sawyer Free Library invites you to a reading from [amazon 978-0945980926 inline] by the author Lisa Capone. Dale Brown of the Whale Center of New England will be there as part of the presentation. Discuss this true story of a North Atlantic Humpback whale's autumn spent close to shore in Salem Sound, the people that interacted with her and her journey south that ended in her death off of the Virginia coast. Inland's skeleton is now on display at the Whale Center of New England, and has been used as a teaching aid in whale anatomy for thousands of visitors!
Take a trip Down Under with Creature Teachers and the likes of a cockatoo, kookaburra, wallaby, cuscus, woma python, blue-tongue skink, bearded dragon, a pair of White’s tree frogs and other animals not seen beyond the unique ecosystem of this island continent.
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