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Summer 2025 Book Boxes

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Looking for a new read? We’ve got you covered! Check out one of our Book Boxes for kids ages 9-12. Each Book Box contains a book to check out, as well as envelopes filled with fun surprises that you can open as you read along. This year, we're doing Book Boxes a little differently. Boxes can be put on hold through the library website, and can picked up at the Circulation Desk. Our Holes and The Goose Girl Book Boxes will each be available to pick up from June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2026. Each child aged 9-12 can check out each Book Box once during that time, so if your summer is looking busy, you can wait until fall or winter to pick up your Book Boxes!

The Goose Girl
By Shannon Hale
New York: Bloomsbury, 2003. Fiction. 383 pages.

Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree was considered a strange child by some, mostly because of her ability to speak to animals. Which may be why after her father's death, her mother decides that rather than rule she will be married off to a prince in the neighboring kingdom of Bayern, an effort that her mother hopes will strengthen ties between the two countries and keep the much stronger country of Bayern from attacking Kildenree. Although Princess Ani is reluctant to marry a prince who she doesn't know, she doesn't see a way out of the union. Things go from bad to worse when her lady-in-waiting Selia convinces a portion of the traveling party's guards to join with her in attacking Ani, so that she can pretend that she is the princess when they arrive in Bayern. Ani manages to escape and eventually finds a job as the king's goose girl where she decides to work until she can come up with a way to convince the king of the treachery that has occurred. If you are a fan of princess stories with a strong female lead, put your The Goose Girl Book Box on hold here.

Holes
By Louis Sachar
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Fiction. 233 pages.

Stanley Yelnats' family is cursed. All because of his good "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." Which is how Stanley ends up at a juvenile detention camp when he's caught with a pair of stolen shoes after they fall from the sky straight for him. Camp Green Lake isn't an ordinary juvenile detention camp, however. Every day each boy must dig a hole that is five feet in every direction under scorching Texas heat (and no, despite being called Camp Green Lake, there is not a lake for them to cool off and refresh in). Interspersed throughout Stanley's story are the stories of Stanley's no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather, as well as the story of Kissin' Kate Barlow, a teacher turned notorious outlaw. If you want to read more about Stanley's story, put your Holes Book Box on hold here.
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