One Community, Many Stories: Resilience
Psychologists define resilience as the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress—such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors.
Our programs themed to Resilience, featured the week of October 10:
Story Time Monday: Ms. Sarah will read some stories about resilience and there will be a resilience game or activity! This is all available in our Sensory Room where you can expect fun in a relaxing environment!
Story Time Wednesday: Ms. Cindy will read some stories about resilience and there will be a resilience game or activity! This is all available in our Sensory Room where you can expect fun in a relaxing environment!
Story Time Online Friday: Ms. Jenna will read some stories about resilience and there will be a craft with a grab bag available at the Library that Friday when the video posts to our Facebook & YouTube pages.
Tween Time: Ms. Cindy themes activities and crafts around resilience, all available in our Sensory Room.
Adult Chair Yoga: Join us in our Sensory Room for a guided meditation before our yoga stretches. There will be flyers available that will include resilience activities and actions.
Our Book List
Many of these titles are also available on our free streaming services, Hoopla and Libby
Adult
Born a Crime : Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (NF) (791.45 NOA)
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore. (NF) 363.179 MOO
Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero by Amanda Klootz (Biography Kloots A)
Hello, Molly!: A Memoir by Molly Shannon (Biography Shannon M)
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (Biography WALLS)
Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir by Jayson Greene (Nonfiction) 155.937 GRE
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (Fiction Cummins J)
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles (Fiction Skeslien C)
Becoming by Michelle Obama (Biography OBAMA)
Rising Strong by Brene Brown (Nonfiction 158 BRO)
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell. (Fiction Purnell S)
A Most Beautiful Thing by Arshay Cooper (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook) (Available on Hoopla Audiobook)
Educated by Tara Westover (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook)
The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino (Available in Catalog as Audiobook) (Available on Hoopla Audiobook)
Almost Everything: Notes On Hope by Anne Lamott (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook)
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook) (Available on Hoopla Ebook)
Blue Nights by Joan Didion (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook)
Everything Is Horrible And Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss by Stephanie Wittels Wachs (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook)
Teen:
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime : Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (Juvenile Biography)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba (Y Biography Kam- kwamba W)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (F) Thomas A)
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani (J Hiranandani V)
Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart (YOUNG ADULT Stewart E)
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (YOUNG ADULT Dessen S)
How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow (YOUNG ADULT Glasgow K)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (YOUNG ADULT)
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe (YOUNG ADULT Phillippe B)
Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter (YOUNG ADULT Carter A)
The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook)
We Are Not from Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook)
Terror at Bottle Creek by Key Watt (Available in Catalog as Ebook)
How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook)
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (Available in Catalog as Ebook)
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook) (Available on Hoopla Ebook & Audiobook)
The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook)
Life as We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook) (Available on Hoopla Ebook)
The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook)
Children:
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacy Abrams (OVERSIZE E Abrams S)
Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers (OVERSIZE E JEF)
Stick and Stone: Best Friends Forever! by Tom Lichtenheld (E Ferry B) (Juvenile Easy) (Juvenile NF)
She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference by Chelsea Clinton (J 920.72 CLI) (Juvenile NF)
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton (J 920.72 CLI) (Juvenile NF)
Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell (E Lovell P) (Juvenile Easy)
A Chair for My Mother by Vera B.Williams (E Williams V) (Juvenile Easy)
Courage by Bernard Waber (E WAB) (Juvenile Easy)
The Way I Feel by Janan Cain (J 152.4 CAI) (Juvenile NF)
The Circles All Around Us by Brad Montague (E Montague B) (Juvenile Easy)
The Boy with Big, Big Feelings By Britney Winn Lee (Available on Hoopla Ebook)
I Am Courage by Susan Verde (Available in Catalog as Ebook) (Available on Hoopla Ebook)
Outside In by Deborah Underwood (Available in Catalog as Ebook) (Available on Hoopla Ebook)
Stuck by Oliver Jeffers (Available in Catalog as Audiobook)
The Thing Lou Couldn't Do by Ashley Spires (Available in Catalog as Ebook) (Available on Hoopla Ebook)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook)
Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo (Available in Catalog as Ebook & Audiobook)
Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts (Available in Catalog as Ebook)
Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats (Available in Catalog as Ebook) (Available on Hoopla Audiobook)
After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again) by Dan Santat (Available in Catalog as Ebook)
Some discussion questions:
- Did you enjoy reading this book?
- Was there anything you didn't like about it?
- What stood out to you most when you read this book?
- What emotions did you feel while reading this book? Did the book impact you in any way?
- Was there anything that surprised you while reading this book?
- Do you have a favorite quote or section of the book?
- Are there any lingering questions that you have about this book?
- What do you think the author’s purpose was in writing this book? What ideas was he or she trying to get across?
- Would you recommend this book to a friend?
- Do you think this book relates to our theme well?