Ames Library Notes: Books for the newly adults and the in-between ages
Keirra McFadden, Ames Public Library
Special to the Ames Tribune
Reading has always been a part of my life. For as long as I can remember I have been able to bring the words in a novel to life in my head. In elementary school, I started off with Junie B. Jones books and never looked back. Between middle school and high school, I found some of the best young adult novels, and I have continued to read them ever since. Now that I am 20 and in college, I have started to notice a problem: I feel slightly too old for young adult books and slightly too young for most adult books.
A fellow quilter, Jones said in a news release from Block Builders that the school district has never received such a timely and generous gift. It is practical too.
The district will give the donated quilts to students in a way to protect their privacy, but the quilts will come with labels sewn onto the back of each that can be filled in with a child s name and the date the quilt is presented to them.
Schrag, a former school teacher, said in the group s news release that, It is our hope that by giving a quilt, the recipient will feel valued and loved. We are planting seeds of hope for that child’s bright future.
Megan Klein-Hewett, Ames Public Library
Special to the Ames Tribune
Each May the library honors Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Heritage months provide us with an opportunity to reflect on our own cultural experiences or learn from experiences that are unlike our own. Here are some great books to help you view different e Asian American experience through literature. Take some time this month to explore the world through these titles!
You are probably familiar with Celeste Ng, author of “Little Fires Everywhere,” but you may not have read her debut novel, “Everything I Never Told You.” Set in the 1970s in small-town Ohio, the novel follows a Chinese American family whose favorite daughter, Lydia, has recently died. “Everything I Never Told You” explores cultural divisions, and the ways in which families struggle to understand one another.
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Update: This story was updated to reflect that Susan Owen is working with an organization that serves Minneapolis schools and others with mental health services that use mindfulness, movement and social-emotional learning, but she does not work directly with Minneapolis schools.
The work to honor a Gilbert student who died last year and raise awareness about mental health will have a new chapter this weekend as people from his life memorialize his love of reading at a farmers market in Ames.
Henry Owen, 17, a junior at Gilbert High School, died by suicide in September.
The HAMO Foundation (Henry Alan Munson Owen) was started to honor Owen and raise awareness of mental illness and suicide in teenagers.
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