UPDATE : Friends of the Marathon Library Books and Coffee 2007

The Friends of the Marathon Library cordially invite you to attend the Winter 2007 Books and Coffee series. All programs will be held at Kirk of the Keys, 8877 Overseas Highway, Marathon. The programs will be on Tuesdays from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Coffee, tea, ice water and cookies will be served at 1:00 p.m. The speakers will start at 1:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

February 13^th
Brilliant, irreverent radio personality and Key West columnist, Bill Hoebee will make us laugh with his trenchant perceptions about life in Key West. Who else do we know who judges bikini contests at the Hog's Breath saloon?

February 20^th
Noted Keys historian, John Viele will talk about his research into the lives of the early Keys pioneer women. He will also sign his many previously published books on the history of the Keys.

February 20^th
Friends of the Marathon Library
Annual Meeting, 3 p. m. at the Kirk of the Keys

February 27^th
Charming, witty poet, writer and editor of L'Attitudes, Jessica Machetta will regale us with her columns and poems.

Rosalind Brackenbury, an English novelist & poet who resides in Key West & is a regular contributor to Solares Hill, will read from her new novel, Windstorm & Flood. “The book attempts to deal with chaos and mess and new beginnings, along with the question of how do you connect with the young person who is yourself.” It is published by John Daniel & Co., with release expected in February for $15.95.

March 6^th
"Gonzo Girl" Sammie Mays, Keynoter columnist and party girl extraordinaire, will make us envy her free spirit and adventurous life, and roll with laughter as she tells stories from her career as a reporter for many publications including The National Enquirer.

March 13^th
Witty, wise and downright smart, Marathon Free Press writer Jay Saporita will give us his incisive, courageous opinions about our wonderful, always lively, and more than a little bit crazy Florida Keys.

March 20^th
Our most-loved performer, the warm, witty, perceptive Jo Lee Scarborough from the great state of Iowa will enthrall us with her review of Marley and Me.

March 27^th
Famed Marathon historian, Dan Gallagher, PhD., will present his soon to be published Marathon Matures, a collection of photographs from the 1950’s and the present day. This exciting collection captures the buildings and businesses of Marathon, “then and now”.

April 3^rd
Songwriter, performer & playwright, Ben Harrison, is also the author of Undying Love, the true & bizarre story of Count von Cosel’s after-death love affair with the lovely Elena Hoyos which took place in Key West during the 1930s. He will read from that work & from the musical comedy he co-authored, “Clouds Over Sunshine Inn,” which will be performed this May by the Marathon Community Theatre.

Friends of the Marathon Library - Books and Coffee Series 2007

Friends of the Marathon Library
Books and Coffee Series 2007

The Friends of the Marathon Library cordially invite you to attend the Winter 2007 Books and Coffee series. All programs will be held at Kirk of the Keys, 8877 Overseas Highway, Marathon. The programs will be on Tuesdays from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Coffee, tea, ice water and cookies will be served at 1:00 p.m. The speakers will start at 1:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

January 23^rd
Always entertaining, Solares Hill writer and Key West denizen, Mark Howell, will fascinate us with his detailed knowledge of the many Keys characters involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Bay of Pigs and other attempts to overthrow the Castro regime launched from our very own neighborhoods.

January 30^th
A brilliant, gifted writer, the knowledgeable Solares Hill editor, Nancy Klingener will talk about her adventures in South Florida journalism.

February 6^th
Ever popular and humorous Key West columnist, poet and cabdriver Michael Suib will entertain us with his perceptive observations about life in Key West.

February 13^th
Brilliant, irreverent radio personality and Key West columnist, Bill Hoebee will make us laugh with his trenchant perceptions about life in Key West. Who else do we know who judges bikini contests at the Hog's Breath saloon?

February 20^th
Noted Keys historian, John Viele will talk about his research into the lives of the early Keys pioneer women. He will also sign his many previously published books on the history of the Keys.

February 27^th
Charming, witty poet, writer and editor of L'Attitudes, Jessica Machetta will regale us with her columns and poems.

March 6^th
"Gonzo Girl" Sammie Mays, Keynoter columnist and party girl extraordinaire, will make us envy her free spirit and adventurous life and roll with laughter as she tells stories from her career as a reporter for many publications including The National Enquirer.

March 13^th
Witty, wise and downright smart, Marathon Free Press writer Jay Saporita will give us his incisive, courageous opinions about our wonderful, always lively and more than a little bit crazy Florida Keys.

March 20^th
Our most-loved performer, the warm, witty, perceptive Jo Lee Scarborough from the great state of Iowa will enthrall us with her review of Marley and Me.

March 27^th
Famed Marathon historian, Dan Gallagher, PhD., will present his soon to be published Marathon Matures, a collection of photographs from the 1950’s and the present day. This exciting collection captures the buildings and businesses of Marathon, “then and now”.

April 3^rd
Famous Key West photographer, Rob O'Neal will return by clamorous demand to show us more of his fabulous slides of Cuba.

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Contemporary” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These books are for 7th grade youngsters.

The books are grouped by “type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on. If the book title has a line under it, a hyperlink, you can click on it & “Request” it from our website. So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library, or click this link. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.

By the way, since the 7^th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book.

Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!

· Adler, C. S.

That horse Whiskey!

· Anderson, Rachel

Bus people

· Arrick, Fran

Chernowitz

· Avi – J AVI

Romeo and Juliet Together (and alive) At Last

· Bauer, Joan

Sticks

· Bennett, Cherie

Zink

· Bentley, Karen

Champion's spirit

· Bentley, Karen

Cindy's heartbreak

· Blinn, William

Brian's Song

· Blume, Judy

Double Fudge – J BLU

[Marathon has it.]

Iggie's house – J BLU

[Marathon has it.]

I'ts not the end of the world – J BLU

[Marathon has it.]

Just as long as we're together – YA BLU

[Marathon has it.]

Then again, maybe I won't – J BLU

[Marathon has it.]

Then again, maybe I won’t – J BLU

[Islamorada has this version.]

· Bradley, Kimberly – J BRA

Halfway to the sky

· Bruchac, Joseph

Skeleton man – YA BRU

[Marathon has it.]

· Burnford, Sheila

Incredible journey – Adult Large Print BUR

[Key Largo has this version.]

Incredible journey – YA / J BUR

[Key Largo & Key West have this version.]

Incredible journey – Adult / J BUR

[Here’s another version.]

· Buss, Fran Leeper

Journey of the sparrows

· Byars, Betsy

Cartoonist – J BYA

The not-just-anybody family – J BYA

The Pinballs – J BYA

[Marathon has it.]

The Pinballs – J BYA

[Here’s another version.]

Summer of the swans – J BYA

[Marathon has it.]

Summer of the swans – YA / J BYA

[Here’s another version.]

· Cleary, Beverly

Jean and Johnny

· Clements, Andrew

Week in the Woods – J CLE

Week in the woods – J CLE

[Here’s another version.]

· Conly, Jane Leslie

Crazy lady! – J CON

[Marathon has it.]

· Cooney, Caroline B

Flash fire

Twenty pageants later

· Cooper, Ilene

Choosing sides

· Cottonwood, Joe

Quake!

· Couloumbis, Audrey

Getting near to baby – YA COU

· Cullen, Lynn

Three lives of Harris Harper

· Cummings, Priscilla

Face First – YA CUM

[Marathon has it.]

· deClements, Barthe

Liar, liar

· DiCamillo, Kate

Because of Winn-Dixie – J DIC

[Marathon has it.]

The Tiger rising – J DIC

[Marathon has it.]

· Dowell, Frances

Dovey Coe – J DOW

[Marathon has it.]

· Duffey, Betsy

Coaster

· Dygard, Thomas

Game plan

· Farrell, Mame

Marrying Malcolm Murgatroyd

· Fitzgerald, John

Return of the great brain

· Fletcher, Ralph

Fig pudding – J FLE

[Marathon has it.]

· Frank, Lucy

I am an artichoke

· Franklin, Kristine

Lone wolf – J FRA

· Gantos, Jack

Jack's black book

Jack's new power – E GAN

Joey Pigza loses control – J GAN

[Marathon has it.]

Joey Pigza loses control – J GAN

[Here’s another version.]

Joey Pigza swallowed the key – J GAN

[Marathon has it.]

Joey Pigza swallowed the key – J GAN

[Here’s another version.]

What would Joey do? – J GAN

[Marathon has it.]

· Giff, Patricia

Gift of the pirate queen

· Greene, Bette

Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe – J GRE

[Marathon has it.]

Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe – J GRE

[Here’s another version.]

· Grove, Vicki

Crystal garden

· Haddix, Margaret

Because of Anya

· Hahn, Mary Downing

Daphne's book – J HAH

Following the mystery man

· Hinton, S. E.

Outsiders – YA HIN

[Marathon has it.]

Outsiders – YA HIN

[Here’s another version.]

That was then, this is now – YA HIN

That was then, this is now – YA HIN

· Hite, Sid

Hole in the world – YA HIT

· Holcomb, Jerry

Chinquapin tree

· Horvath, Polly

Everything on a waffle – J HOR

· Hurwitz, Johanna

Even Stephen

· Johnson, Angela

Heaven – YA JOH

[Marathon has it.]

Bird

[Marathon has it.]

· Klise, Kate

Regarding the fountain – J KLI

· Korman, Gordon

No more dead dogs

· Layefsky, Virginia

Impossible things

· LeMieux, Anne

All the answers

· L'Engle, Madeleine

Meet the Austins – J LEN

Moon by night – J LEN

· Lindquist, Susan

Wander

· Lowry, Lois

One hundredth thing about Caroline

· Martin, Ann

Corner of the Universe – J MAR

[Marathon has it.]

· Mikaelsen, Ben

Stranded

· Mills, Claudia

Losers, Inc. – J MIL

[Marathon has it.]

· Mulford, Philippa

Holly sisters on their own

· Myers, Christopher

Wings – E MYE

[Marathon has it.]

· Naidoo, Beverley

Journey to Jo'burg – J NAI

· Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

Reluctantly Alice – J NAY

[Marathon has it.]

Reluctantly Alice

[Here’s another version.]

· Nelson, Vaunda

Possibles

· Nielsen, Virginia

Batty Hattie

· Park, Barbara

Graduation of Jake Moon –J PAR

[Marathon has it.]

· Paterson, Katherine

Come sing, Jimmy Jo – YA PAT

Come sing, Jimmy Jo – YA PAT

[Here’s another version.]

· Paulsen, Gary

Dancing Carl

The Rifle

White Fox chronicles

· Philbrick, Rodman

Freak the mighty – YA PHI

Max the Mighty

The Young man and the sea – J PHI

[Marathon has it.]

· Roberts, Willi Davis

Don't hurt Laurie!

· Rockwell, Thomas

How to eat fried worms – J ROC

[Marathon has it.]

How to eat fried worms – J ROC

[Here’s another version.]

· Ryden, Hope

Wild horse summer

· Rylant, Cynthia

Missing May – J RYL

[Marathon has it.]

· Shreve, Susan

Goodbye, Amanda the good

· Soto, Gary

Taking sides

· Spinelli, Jerry

Loser – J SPI

[Marathon has it.]

Space Station Seventh Grade – YA SPI

There's a girl in my hammerlock – YA SPI

· Strasser, Todd

Con-fidence – J STR

· Taylor, Theodore

The Cay _ J TAY

· Temple, Frances

Tonight, by sea YA TEM

· Tolan, Stephanie S.

Surviving the Applewhites _ YA TOL

· Van Draanen, Wendelin

Swear to Howdy

· Wagner, Jane

JT

· Wardlaw, Lee

101 ways to bug your parents - J WAR

· Weeks, Sarah

Regular Guy

· Wood, June Rae

When pigs fly

· Woodson, Jacqueline

Maizon at Blue Hill

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Classic” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These books are for 7th grade youngsters.

The books are grouped by “type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on. If the book title has a line under it, a hyperlink, you can click on it & “Request” it from our website. So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

By the way, since the 7^th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book.

Pick out a bunch of books & start reading. ENJOY!!

We have	DDC	Type	Author	Title
	Adult Fiction BAR	Classic	Barrett, William E.	Lilies of the field
Yes	J SAI	Classic	de Saint-Exupery, Antoine	Little Prince
Yes	J LON	Classic	London, Jack	The Call of the Wild (Great Illustrated Classics-Adaptation)
Yes	J LON	Classic	London, Jack	The Call of the Wild (Another copy of a Great Illustrated Classics-Adaptation)
Yes	Adult Fiction LON	Classic	London, Jack	Novels & Stories (Contains: The call of the wild; White fang; The sea-wolf; Klondike & Other Short Stories)
Yes	J RAW	Classic	Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan	The Yearling, illus. by Edward Shenton
Yes	J RAW	Classic	Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan	The Yearling, illus. by N C Wyeth
	Adult Large Print Fiction STE	Classic	Stevenson, Robert Louis	Black Arrow, illus. by N C Wyeth
Yes	J STE	Classic	Stevenson, Robert Louis	Treasure island, illus. by Francois Place
Yes	J STE	Classic	Stevenson, Robert Louis	Treasure island, (Great Illustrated Classics-Adaptation)
Yes	J STE	Classic	Stevenson, Robert Louis	Treasure island, illus. by N C Wyeth

There are many different editions of each of the “Classic” books. So, if these links show that the book is checked out, do a regular “Title Search” from the Marathon Library's Online Catalog SEARCH page link in the right column of this page (under the "Links" caption) and try to find another edition that isn’t checked out.

Good luck!