KANG@ Cancelled

Hi all! KANG@ - our homeschool program will not be on the calendar for the fall. Instead we will have an activity afternoon one Monday a month for all school age children.

Please check back soon for our fall calendar.

It's about that time again!!

Registration time for the Summer Reading Program is fast approaching! This year's theme for children (toddlers - 10 years) is Get a Clue @ Your Library. Check out the schedule of events on our website at http://www.appl.info/2007_summer_reading_program.htm

This year's theme for teens (11-18) is YNK: You Never Know @ the Library!
Check out the schedule of events at http://www.appl.info/2007_teen_summer_program.htm and the cool events at Detective Camp http://www.appl.info/Detective%20Camp.htm

Registration begins May 1st!

Focus on YOUth meeting

Hi all! This is just a reminder that the Focus on YOUth homeschool group will meet this Thursday, March 15th @ 1:00 p.m. at the Marbury Branch. Get ready to spend some time with bubbles!

See you there!

KANG@ in March

Our next KANG@ meeting at the Prattville Library is Friday, March 9th at 1:00 p.m. We are going to have great fun playing and experimenting with BUBBLES!

See you next Friday!!

Get 'em While You Can!

New titles in our collections!

YOUNG ADULT

Spy High: Mission One by A. J. Butcher
Spy High: Mission Two – Chaos Rising by A. J. Butcher
Spy High: Mission Three – The Serpent Scenario by A. J. Butcher
Spy High: Mission Four – The Paranoia Plot by A. J. Butcher

JUNIOR CHAPTER

Nate the Great on the Owl Express by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat & Mitchell Sharmat
Andy Russell, NOT Wanted by the Police by David A. Adler
The Snack Attack Mystery: an Invisible Inc. Mystery by Elizabeth Levy
The Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane Yolan – J 133.4 YOL

EASY
Inspector Hopper by Doug Cushman
The Mysterious Tadpole by Steven Kellogg
What is that Awful Smell by Heather Tekavec
The Field Beyond the Outfield by Mark Teague

New books!!

EASY
Bones and the Cupcake Mystery by David A. Adler
Bones and the Dinosaur Mystery by David A. Adler
Bones and the Big Yellow Mystery by David A. Adler
Bones and the Dog Gone Mystery by David A. Adler
Dot & Jabber and the Big Bug Mystery by Ellen Stoll Walsh
The Web Files by Margie Palatini

JUNIOR
The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, Private Eye by Bruce Hale
The Big Nap: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, Private Eye by Bruce Hale
Look-A-likes: The more you look, the more you see! By Joan Steiner – J 793.7 STE
Women Soldiers, Spies and Patriots of the American Revolution by Martha Kneib – J973.3 KNE
Harriet Spies Again by Louise Fitzhugh and Helen Ericson
Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator by Jennifer Allison

YOUNG ADULT

Second Sight by Gary Blackwood
Tarot for a new Generation by Janina Renee
Traitor by Andy McNab and Robert Rigby
The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
Midnight Magic by Avi
My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective
Playing for Keeps by Joan Lowery Nixon
Pirates! By Celia Rees
Case Closed: A VIZ Graphic Novel by Gosho Aoyama
Nightmare Academy by Frank Peretti
The Treasure of Savage Island by Lenore Hart
Lake of Secrets by Lael Littke
Petticoat Spies: Six Women Spies of the Civil War by Peggy Caravantes – YA 973.7 CAR
James Bond: The Secret World of 007 by Alastair Dougall
The Lost City of Faar: Pendragon Book Two by D. J. MacHale
Live and Let Shop: Book One of the Spy Goddess series by Michael P. Spraolin
The Presence: A Ghost Story by Eve Bunting
Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery by Peter Abrahams

KANG@'s Log Cabins

We learned about Lincoln's log cabin and his love of reading! We had a great time making a log cabin from graham crackers!

Our next meeting will be Friday, March 9th at 1:00 p.m.!

New Releases!

We have brand new releases ready to be checked out in the Children's Room!
The Rock 'n' Roll Mystery: A Boxcar Children Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner - JF WAR
The Magic School Bus and the Missing Tooth: A level 2 Scholastic Reader - E COL BLUE
The Srunken Head: Grandpa Spanielson's Chicken Pox Stories #3 by Denys Cazet - E CAZ BLUE
Steal Back the Mona Lisa! by Meghan McCarthy - E MCC
Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? by Bonnie Lass & Philemon Sturges - E LAS
Roanoke: The Lost Colony - An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane Yolen - J133.4 YOL
The Salem Witch Trials - An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane Yolen - J 133.4 YOL

New books are coming in weekly!! Check back soon for new listings!!

Welcome to Home Grown APPLes

Welcome to the Autauga-Prattville Homeschool blog! We have created this blog just for our homeschool families in Prattville and the surrounding communities. We have two different programs that offer homeschool students a change to mix and mingle with other homeschool children in an educational - yet extremely fun - invironment. K.A.N.G.@. - Know, Advance, Nurture, Grow @ the Library - meets at the main branch in Prattville the second Friday of each month at 1:00 p.m. Focus on YOUth meets at the Marbury branch every third Thursday of each month at 1:00 p.m. For more information, please see our website at http://www.appl.info/home_school_parents.htm or call the Children's Department at 365-3396.

We hope to use this blog as a way of communicating with homeschooling parents and children. Please feel free to respond on this blog and let us know how we can help your family. Any thoughts on future programs? Cool websites that we need to share on our website?