Meadow Lake Library
320 Centre Street, PO Box 1351 S9X 1Y9 Meadow Lake, SK, Canada

Lakeland Library Region is hiring We are looking for a hardworking and outgoing individual that has an interest in Children's programming to work as a Children’s Programming Clerk (permanent part-time position) at the North Battleford Library, please see the image below for the job description and how to apply, you can also download the job ad on our website - https://lakelandlibrary.ca/employment

"Claudia has always been the most creative kid in her class... until Ashley Wyeth comes along. Ashley's really different: She wears hippie clothes and has multiple earrings, and she's the most fantastic artist Claudia has ever met. Ashley says Claudia is a great artist, too, but thinks she's wasting her artistic talent with The Baby-sitters Club. When Claudia starts spending more time with Ashley and missing BSC meetings, it becomes clear that Claudia has to make a decision -...- one of them has to go!" Click the cover to see reviews!, or click here to reserve your copy today: https://lakelandlibrary.ca/sm/search/item/3029635

Lakeland Library Region is hiring We are looking for a hardworking and outgoing individual to work as a Circulation Clerk (permanent full-time position) at the North Battleford Library, please see the image below for the job description and how to apply, you can also download the job ad on our website - https://lakelandlibrary.ca/employment

Sage Hill Writing is taking their Teen and Young Writer's programs online this summer! Follow the link to apply for one of the six free programs available. www.sagehillwriting.ca/teens

"News of the World takes a slow but absorbing ride down a comfortingly familiar Western trail, guided by Tom Hanks in peak paternal mode." Click the cover to see reviews!, or click here to reserve your copy today:... https://lakelandlibrary.ca/sm/search/item/3043959

"How do you start a new chapter of your life when you haven’t closed the book on the previous one? Eighteen months ago, Autumn Divac’s husband went missing. Her desperate search has yielded no answers, and she can’t imagine moving forward without him. But for the sake of their two teenage children, she has to try." Click the cover to see reviews!, ... or click here to reserve your copy today: https://lakelandlibrary.ca/sm/search/item/3011967

"Secrets are exposed and Ryder Creed's life hangs in the balance in the riveting sixth installment of the award-winning Alex Kava Ryder Creed K-9 mysteries. NOTHING STAYS HIDDEN FOREVER... During a training exercise, Creed’s scent dog, Grace, is drawn off course and discovers a shallow grave. The body was never meant to be found, hidden deep in an isolated part of Florida’s Blackwater River State Forest. The remote area has no easy access in or out. The killer obviously hoped... his secret would be scattered and swallowed up by the forces of nature. When Creed's dogs continue to find more remains, investigators quickly realize they’re dealing with someone who knows the forest intimately and has been using it to hide his handiwork for years. " Click the cover to see reviews!, or click here to reserve your copy today: https://lakelandlibrary.ca/sm/search/item/2977979

Don't forget to pick up your long weekend reading by Friday!

A beautiful book to read together with your child.

"From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes this thrilling story that shows what happens when a dead man's secrets fall into the hands of vigilante antiherodrawing him down a dangerous road. Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family's estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for months. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors and the items stolen from her family were never recovered." Click the cover to see... reviews!, or click here to reserve your copy today: https://lakelandlibrary.ca/sm/search/item/3014828

"In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown. Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write." Click the cover to see reviews!, ... or click here to reserve your copy today: https://lakelandlibrary.ca/sm/search/item/3046103

What do you do to encourage literacy in young people?

Some goals are less concrete than others!

"In the years after the Civil War, Jo March lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore, a childhood crush who proposed to Jo but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg, is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together." Click the cover to see reviews!, or click here to reserve your copy today:... https://lakelandlibrary.ca/sm/search/item/2823957

Curtis Peeteetuce, known for his Rez Christmas plays, is back with three real-life kohkoms! Follow along with their drama lessons as they share stories and experiences, culminating in a final performance for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Storytelling Month in February. Their weekly vlogs are available on Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples’ Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA8AIkcGQeImOYDFrMvLVww https://thestarphoenix.com//indigenous-women-at-the-heart-

"New mysteries unfold 25 years after the shocking death of homecoming queen Laura Palmer in a quaint northwestern town. Surreal, suspenseful, and visually stunning, this new Twin Peaks is an auteurist triumph for David Lynch." Click the cover to see reviews!, or click here to reserve your copy today:... https://lakelandlibrary.ca/sm/search/item/2377039

What sequel would you most like to be written?

"Tomorrow" The procrastinator's guide to never getting anything done!

Local author Shelley Leedahl's wonderful new literary podcast, Something Like Love, is available wherever you get your podcasts! https://www.bclocalnews.com//local-author-launches-litera/

"After staging his own suicide, a crazed scientist uses his power to become invisible to stalk and terrorize his ex-girlfriend. When the police refuse to believe her story, she decides to take matters into her own hands and fight back." Click the cover to see reviews!, or click here to reserve your copy today:... https://lakelandlibrary.ca/sm/search/item/2867019

The Read Harder Challenge is a go for 2021! "Read Harder has 24 tasks designed to help you break out of your reading bubble and expand your worldview through books. With new genres, new authors, and new points of view, the challenge will (hopefully) help you discover amazing books you wouldn’t have otherwise picked up." Take a look at the details and the list! If you'd like to do the challenge with us, join the group "Read Harder with the Meadow Lake Library"

Take home kits! Including the last in our fibre-based series: this bear embroidery is good for beginners and veterans alike! These will help keep you & your family busy inside on this cold weekend! All free while supplies last. Call 236-5396 to arrange a pick-up time. #takehome #takeandmake #meadowlakelibrary #embroidery

Have you ever thought of using library books for an inexpensive (or free - use recycled papers for wrapping!) advent calendar? Books borrowed today aren't due back until December 29!

A big thank you to the Lloydminster Learning Council Association for partnering with us for Family Literacy Week (January 24 to 31) and for generously donating ...copies of Never Rub Noses with a Narwhal by Ruth Wellborn! Keep an eye out for Family Literacy Week program materials as well as our new literacy kits coming to a branch near you! Click the link to learn more - https://abclifeliteracy.ca/all-programs/family-literacy-day/