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May is National Bike Month.  The purpose of National Bike Month is to create awareness for bicyclists and bicycles.  A number of organizations across the nation are working together to encourage bike safety.  It is important for bicyclists to educate themselves and others about how to be a safe rider and how to be safe around bike riders.  National Bike Month is also a time of advocacy.  Bicycling organizations use National Bike Month to draw attention the rights of bicyclists.  In the spirit of National Bike Month, we have selected a number of books about bicycling and put them on the display shelf by the help desk.  If you have any questions about National Bike Month or library materials about bicycles, please, ask a staff member in the Youth Services department. 

Here are a few of the books we selected:

Cycling by Christin Ditchfield

BMX Racing by K.E. Vieregger

Go Fly A Bike! The Ultimate Book about Bicycle Fun, Freedom, and Science by Bill Hadum

Bicycle Book by Gail Gibbons

Pedal Power: How a Mountain Bike Is Made by David Hautzig

Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the huge liner ship, Titanic, hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean. A few hours later, the ship sank and over 1,500 people lost their lives. After 96 years, it is still one of the worst disasters in our world's history.

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Read these books to learn more about our planet and keeping it clean and green!

  Earth Day - Hooray! by Stuart J. Murphy

A drive to recycle cans on Earth Day teaches the children of the Maple Street School Save-the-Planet Club about place value.    J 513 MUR

  Recycle! A Handbook for Kids by Gail Gibbons

Explains the process of recycling from start to finish and discusses what happens to paper, glass, aluminum cans, and plastic when they are recycled into new products. J 363.728 GIB

An Inconvenient Truth: the Crisis of Global Warming by Al Gore

This young reader's version is an adaptation of the former vice-president's recent documentary. Using easy-to-grasp graphics and revealing before-and-after photos, he shows how glaciers and ice shelves are disappearing all over the globe with alarming speed, pointing to profound climate changes and increased danger from rising sea levels in the near future. New book J 363.738 GOR

  The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon

Filled with facts about global warming and its disastrous consequences, loads of photos and illustrations, as well as suggestions for how kids can help combat global warming in their homes, schools, and communities. Will educate and empower, leaving readers with the knowledge they need to understand this problem and a sense of hope to inspire them into action. New Book J 363.7387 DAV

Here are some of the newest titles to hit our shelves:

    The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers

Henry loves to eat books, until he begins to feel quite ill and decides that maybe he could do something else with the books he has been devouring.  E JEF