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February Book Club
Book for February 2017 is the following: Hard Country (Kerney Family Trilogy #1) by Michael McGarrity In the wake of his wife’s death while giving birth to their son, and the loss of his brother on the West Texas plains, John Kerney is forced to give up his ranch, leave his son behind, and strike…
Read MoreLunar New Year Delights
Gung Hay Fat Choy! Chinese New Year is a spring festival that follows the Chinese lunar calendar and traditionally falls between mid-January and mid-February each year. The celebrations usually last for two weeks and represent a fresh start, rejuvenating family love and hoping for happiness in the year to come. 2017 marks the year of…
Read MoreBeautification 2017 – Annual Trash Poster Contest
Deadline for Trash Poster Contest Entries is the Last Business Day of January 2017 Approximately 14,000 students enter the Statewide Trash Poster Contest, annually, making this poster judging very competitive and certainly very interesting! In addition to other prizes, 12 chosen state winning posters will be featured in 35,000 printed calendars. 35,000 copies each of “one”…
Read MoreLove is in the Air
February will be highlighting our Regency Romance Novel collection. Regency romances are a sub genre of romance novels set during the period of the British Regency (1811–1820) or early 19th century. Rather than simply being versions of contemporary romance stories transported to a historical setting, Regency romances are a distinct genre with their own plot…
Read MoreGeorge Washington University Native Teens Initiative Scholarship Application
2017 INSPIRE summer application is now live here: https://inspire.naplp.gwu.edu/inspire-pre-college-application The INSPIRE program offers full scholarships to Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian high school students to student applied American politics as part of a three (3) week summer program at George Washington University. Funded by a generous grant from AT&T, the scholarship includes tuition for…
Read More28th Annual Oklahoma Book Awards
Yep! It’s that time of year again. The Oklahoma Center for the Book is ready to accept your entries for the 28th Annual Oklahoma Book Awards, scheduled for April 8, 2017. Books considered for this award must have an Oklahoma-based theme, or entrants (authors, illustrators, photographers, or book designers) must live or have lived in…
Read More2017 Sequoyah Book Awards Competition
2017 Sequoyah Book Awards Competition Believe it or not, this Oklahoma Library Association reading competition is in its 59th year! The Sequoyah Book Awards program is the third-oldest youth-choice literary award in the nation. Sequoyah encourages Oklahoma students to read books of literary quality. OLA’s Sequoyah Reading Teams release masterlists of titles for each annual…
Read MoreLetters About Literature
The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, in cooperation with Affiliate State Centers for the Book, invites readers in grades 4 through 12 to enter Letters About Literature, a national reading-writing contest. For rules and more information click here: lal16-guidelines Original article can be found at the (ODL) Oklahoma Department of Libraries. The…
Read MoreJames Kueter Large Print Book Memorial Collection
Coloring Club
The Anadarko Community Library is happy to offer you to join the COLORING CLUB. Color one of the pages provided by the Library and bring it back to the library for display. Library Patrons will pick first, second and third place winners in the following four (4) categories: 6 and younger 7 – 12 years…
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