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Creativebug: Online Arts & Crafts Classes

Creativebug: Online Arts & Crafts Classes

Crafters! Creativebug offers online video arts and crafts workshops so you can learn how to paint, knit, crochet, sew, screen print, and more. This is a subscription service, but Santa Clara County Library cardholders can access Creativebug for free! All you need is a library card. Click here to fill out a library card application. […]

Check out a Casti Library Action Pack (CLAP)!

Check out a Casti Library Action Pack (CLAP)!

Have you heard about Casti Library Action Packs (CLAPs)?? Borrow all the materials you’ll need to complete one of three fun activities: cloudspotting, pompom making, and sashiko mending. The upcoming February break is the perfect time to check one out! The Cloudspotting CLAP comes with cloud and light effects identifiers, an inflatable pillow, and watercolors. […]

February Bay Area Author and Literary Events

February Bay Area Author and Literary Events

Adalyn Grace in conversation with Tomi Adeyemi about Adalyn’s new novel, All the Stars and Teeth. Wednesday, February 5 7:00-9:00pm Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park More information here. Evelyn Skye and Stacy Lee discuss Evelyn’s new book, Cloak of Night, sequel to Circle of Shadows. Tuesday, February 11 7:00-9:00pm Kepler’s Books 1010 […]

Author Visit: Lily Williams and Kate Schneemann

Author Visit: Lily Williams and Kate Schneemann

This week we hosted an exceptional author visit at our library. The Class of 2025 heard from Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann about their brand new book Go With the Flow, which focuses on menstruation, equity, activism, and friendship. In preparation for the visit, our 7th graders had the opportunity to read Williams and Schneemann’s […]

Save the Date: YANovCon is January 25

Save the Date: YANovCon is January 25

13 January 2020

San Mateo County Library’s 5th annual Young Adult Novelist Convention (YANovCon) is coming up soon! Saturday January 25, 12:00-6:00pm to be exact. This year’s YANovCon will be held at Millbrae Library and will feature panel discussions, hangouts, and signings with about 20 YA authors, including Gloria Chao, Anna-Marie McLemore, CB Lee, and others. And the […]

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January Bay Area Literary and Author Events

January Bay Area Literary and Author Events

06 January 2020

Abigail Hing Wen with Sabaa Tahir in celebration of Abigail’s debut novel, Loveboat, Taipei. Monday January 6, 7:00-9:00pm Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park More information here Tara Sim with Kat Cho for the launch of Tara’s novel, Scavenge the Stars. Tuesday January 7, 7:00-9:00pm Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park […]

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2019 Award Winners

2019 Award Winners

16 December 2019

Check out some of the books that won awards in 2019… available at Casti Library! Stonewall Book Award Lambda Literary Award Morris Award Coretta Scott King Award Booker Prize National Book Award: Fiction Pulitzer Prize: Poetry National Book Award: Poetry National Book Award: Young Adult Alex Award

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Book review: Salt in My Soul

Book review: Salt in My Soul

09 December 2019

Mallory Smith inspired many people through her passionate advocacy for those living with cystic fibrosis. Salt in My Soul reveals another facet of her story: her own internal struggles with her illness. Mallory grew up in Los Angeles (but had connections to the Silicon Valley as an alumna of Stanford University, and through cousins who […]

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ICYMI: New in November

ICYMI: New in November

02 December 2019

In case you missed it, here are some of the new books from November that we’re excited about. Check them out now in the library or online with Sora! The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern eBook and audiobook available The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys eBook available The Stars and the Blackness Between by […]

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Global Week 2020 Reading List

Global Week 2020 Reading List

21 November 2019

Interested in learning more about this year’s Global Week theme, Seats at the Table: Women, Peace, and Security? ACE Center TA Riley ’20 helped us compile these book recommendations to help anyone from sixth graders to faculty explore the topic. All of the books listed below are available in the library! Leading the Way: Women […]

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  • (Grades 8+) Summer Everrett makes a small choice that changes her entire summer, splitting her future into two stories. The reader follows both plots as we see the ramifications of her choice.
  • (14-adult) Jewish pediatrician Janusz Korczak's orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto was founded on nurturing and respecting children. He couldn’t bear the idea of leaving his orphans as WWII quickly approached, eventually dying with his children in the gas chambers. Filled with photos, this biography of a compassionate humanitarian whose activism was the start of the human rights movement also covers topics linked to the war, including eugenics, the beginnings of anti-Semitism, Hitler, and Nazism.
  • (Gr 9+) Rishi wants an arranged marriage, Dimple does not. Their parents meant to wait longer on this “suggested arrangement” but when both their children gravitate toward the same summer program, they figure, Why not?
  • (Gr 9+) Sixteen-year old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets, ranging in size and importance from annoyance with her friends to Sana’s suspicion of her father’s affair to a crush on her best friend. When her family moves to California and Sana decides it might be time to tell the truth, everything suddenly seems very complicated.
  • (Gr 9 Up) Sheltered eighteen-year-old Everett “Ever” Wong is resigned to follow her immigrant parents’ expectations to attend medical school even though she longs to be a Broadway dancer. When her conservative parents send her to a summer cultural immersion program in Taipei, she quickly learns why it’s nicknamed “Loveboat” and, with her newfound freedom, discovers who she wants to be and the courage to own her choices in this tale of romance, friendship, and adventure.
  • (Gr 3-6) Delsie loves tracking the weather on Cape Cod where she’s been raised by her grandmother after her mother abandoned her when she was young. After her best friend has dumped her, Delsie surprisingly becomes friends with a snarky new kid in town who is just as lonely as she is, and together they have adventures on the Cape and learn what real friendship is and the true meaning of family in this coming-of-age tale.

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