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The Kansas Notable Books is a list of books published by Kansans or about Kansas. This list contains books published in 2009. There is something for everyone, young and old, included.

The alphabetical list by title of the 2010 Kansas Notable Books follows:

Addie of the Flint Hills: A Prairie Child During the Depression by Adaline Sorace as told to Deborah Sorace Prutzman

The Blue Shoe: A Tale of Thievery, Villainy, Sorcery, and Shoes by Roderick Townley, illustrated by Mary GrandPre

Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford

The Evolution of Shadows by Jason Quinn Malott

Ghost Town by Richard W. Jennings

A Kansas Year by Mike Blair

Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano by Kevin Rabas, edited by Dennis Etzel, Jr.

Nothing Right: Short Stories by Antonya Nelson

One Kansas Farmer: A Kansas Number Book by Devin & Corey Scillian, illustrated by Doug Bowles

Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen by Joe Drape

Silver Shoes by Paul Miles Schneider

The Storm in the Barn written and illustrated by Matt Phelan

To the Stars: Kansas Poets of the Ad Astra Poetry Project edited and with commentary by Denise Low

Under Seige! Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg by Andrea Warren

Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin

For more information, copy and past this link to the State Library of Kansas: http://statelibrary.mykansaslibrary.org/?p=8227

Over 75  young summer readers completed the Make a Splash! Summer Reading program before the July 31 deadline and were eligible to attend our library Pool Party last Thursday. Seneca Free Library invited Bern, Centralia  and Corning libraries to join in the fun too. Each library set their own rules for earning a ticket to the pool party. There was a great turn out for the party.  For pictures, look at the Flickr photo badge on the left side of this web page. To see the pictures enlarged, click on the badge to open the Flickr page.

Make a Splash Read! is the Summer Reading theme this year. At our Library, if you read you CAN make a SPLASH at the Seneca Aquatic Center! The Seneca Free Library, along with other libraries in our county, is hosting a swim party at the Aquatic Center Thursday August 5 at 8:00 PM. This party is for those who signed up in June and picked up a reading log. Children who have read 20 books and bring in their completed reading log by July 31 will be given a blue ticket, along with a certificate that recognizes their reading accomplishment.

Encourage your friends to read their 20 books and turn in their reading logs too!

Children MUST have that ticket in hand to enter our pool party.

Eager readers can pick up a second reading log to read for another prize!

The summer reading Make A Splash Pool Party is Thursday August 5 at 8:00 PM. Children must have a blue ticket in hand to enter. This party is for children who signed up for the Summer Reading, read 20 books over the summer and filled out their reading log, brought the reading log into the library to pick up their ticket and a certificate recognizing their reading accomplishment.