New Children’s Book Review

Chance Fortune and the Outlaws by Shane Berryhill (click to request)
Burlington Academy trains superpowers; and Josh Belvins, who has always wanted to be a super hero, wants to attend. With the help of a retired super hero, Josh is accepted to the academy and transforms into Chance Fortune. While at Burlington Academy, [...]

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New Children’s Picture Book Reviews

Playground Day! By Jennifer J. Merz (click to request)
A young girl spends the day at the playground exploring her world with her many animal friends. Each page of rhyming text describes her animal-like activities and allows children to guess which animal she is acting like, with clues found on the page. “Stretching, swaying, [...]

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Author Podcasts

This past spring the La Mesa Library hosted two author visits. The first was local author, P.J. Haarsma; author of The Softwire : Virus on Orbis 1 (click to request title). The second author was Bruce Hale, author of the Chet Gecko Series. Titles in this series include: The Big Nap: From [...]

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WELCOME

Welcome to La Mesa Library’s new website and blog! Here you will find upcoming events, program recordings (podcasts), book lists and reviews, new library materials, discussions, tips, and more. Charles (Adult Services Librarian) and Anna (Children’s Librarian) are the site’s creators. Our Teen Blog was created by Denise.
Your library is a community space, and we [...]

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