GENESEO, Ill. — Grab your library card and get ready to dive into some of the most popular summer reads in our area!
Twice a month on our 4 p.m. show, The Current, we bring you a book-club-style segment called "Current Reads." We chat with libraries all over our viewing area to hear what people are reading in their community. For this edition, we're going just a hop, skip and a jump away to the Geneseo Public Library District.
The library's director, Claire Crawford, told us about three books Geneseo readers couldn't put down this summer:
- "Factastic (LEGO Nonfiction): A LEGO Adventure in the Real World" by Penelope Arlon is a partnership between LEGO and Scholastic. This book dives into everything you want to know about the world, with a little help from LEGO figurines, illustrations and real-world photographs. How long would it take to fly to Pluto? Who invented potato chips? Where does an octopus keep its brain cells? Where was the first video game played? Factastic brings everything from Vikings to volcanoes to life with facts, stats and did-you-knows. This is one treat billed toward LEGO fans of all ages.
- "Pete the Cat Checks Out the Library" by James and Kimberly Dean follows Pete the Cat's first time at the library. Pete gets a tour of the building, goes on adventures and even reads a few cool stories along the way. During his time at the library, Pete discovers that all he needs to find some fun is a little imagination and his library card.
- "Three-Inch Teeth (A Joe Pickett Novel)" by C.J. Box is the 24th out of 25 Joe Pickett thrillers. In this gripping mystery, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different rampaging beasts. One is an animal; the other is a human. A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage and killed multiple people, including the potential fiancé of Joe's daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin. Cates was put away years ago, with Joe's help, and now he wants revenge on the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Cates begins to check people off his list, using the grizzly attacks as cover. The problem is, Joe Pickett is on the case.
The Geneseo Public Library District is also raising money for its future reading garden. Once completed, it will be an outdoor space for library-goers to enjoy nature while getting lost in a good book. The public is invited to help the mission through a bookends fundraiser. For $100, you can take home a pair of bookends depicting a young boy and girl enjoying stories of their own.
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