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Our Winter Reading Challenge ends this week! Drop

Our Winter Reading Challenge ends this week! Drop off your completed bingo card or submit online before February 28th. Three winners will receive $50 gift cards to a location of their choosing. Head to our website to complete your bingo card online. Find that link in our bio.
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#TBT. Tomorrow, Feb. 26th is Carnival Day! But f

#TBT. Tomorrow, Feb. 26th is Carnival Day! But for Belvidere residents in the 1920’s, the entire month of February was focused on one important carnival-the Ice Carnival. Sponsored every year by the Belvidere Chamber of Commerce and the YMCA, the Ice Carnival took place on the Kishwaukee River at the State Street bridge and Doty Park, Ice races, sledding competitions, and skating derbys were held as while local vendors offered hot chocolate and treats. Unfortunately, Mother Nature refused to cooperate around 1927 and the annual ice carnival was postponed for several years because the weather was too warm and the ice too thin. Eventually, the ice carnival became a running joke due to the yearly postponements and the carnival became a treasure of the past.
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Today on Ida reads, we feature "The Poet X" by Eli

Today on Ida reads, we feature "The Poet X" by Elizabeth Acevedo. In this young adult novel, Xiomara feels like she is unheard and misunderstood. This story takes place in Harlem and shows the pressures Xiomara faces between her mother, the church, her friends and school. She is tired of being silent and wants to express herself. A teacher suggests that Xiomara tries out the slam poetry club at school. Xiomara loves this idea, but knows her mother won’t. So, she sets out a way to be heard. The Poet X is beautifully written in verse and Elizabeth Acevedo writes with passion that will make the reader want more. Find this book in our YA section, now upstairs!
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#TBT. Saturday, Feb. 20 is Cherry Pie Day! Cherr

#TBT. Saturday, Feb. 20 is Cherry Pie Day! Cherry Pie is America’s second most popular pie, second only to apple, and Feb. 20 is the day to celebrate this national favorite by baking, buying, and eating cherry pie. In the 60’s, Northern Illinois Gas Company sponsored the Penny Flame Home Economics Awards Programs and Belvidere was proud to have junior high student Sandra Bye compete in the 1967 semi-finals with her recipe for cherry pie. That’s Sandra in the middle and for those of you who went to Belvidere Junior High, that’s Home Economics teacher Mrs. Pyszka on the left who taught us all how to set the table, plan a menu, sew, and bake delicious pies!
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Calling all little geniuses! We have a fun experim

Maya Anglou’s poems inspired so many people and

Maya Anglou’s poems inspired so many people and reached out to touch their souls. She poured her own struggles and hardships as a black woman into her work and her words contain volumes of wisdom for people of all cultures. This collection of Angelou’s wisdoms is just as inspiring. Some are honest and plain advice, some are laments on the plight of black people, some are adages her only son remembers from his childhood. “My hand is at the small of your back; I may let you stumble but I will never let you fall.” “Our young must be taught that racial peculiarities do exist, but that beneath the skin, beyond the differing features,and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.” These are just two of the many truisms you will find as you enter the heart of Maya Angelou.

Find "Rainbow in the Cloud" in Adult Nonfiction in both regular and large print.
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Welcome back to Liz’s Lively Movie Reviews! Thi

Welcome back to Liz’s Lively Movie Reviews!

This week I’ll be reviewing “Five Feet Apart”, a PG-13, young adult/romance, 2019 film. This movie is a real tear-jerker and heart-breaking in all the right places. If you’re a fan of “The Fault In Our Stars”, you’ll love this one!

Stella is a seventeen year old who spends most of her time in the hospital as a Cystic Fibrosis patient. Her hospital life consists of routines and self-control and that’s all she knows. Soon everything gets put to the test when she meets Will, who is very charming and full of himself. Will also has the same illness as Stella and when they meet, there’s an instant connection. They can easily pick up bacteria from each other because of their illness, so restrictions are they should be a safe distance apart. As they get to know each other more, the temptation to get closer to each other is unbelievably strong. Starring Cole Sprouse as Will and Haley Lu Richardson as Stella.

Ready to watch? Grab it off our shelf or call us and we can run it out to your car!

The library is closed today, Monday, February 15th

We'll be closed on Monday in observance of Preside

We'll be closed on Monday in observance of Presidents Day. We'll be open on Tuesday at 10AM, just in time for our virtual Baby Prom!

We hope to see you virtually or in person at the library soon.
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Need a quick valentines gift? Craft your sweetie a

Need a quick valentines gift? Craft your sweetie a candy bouquet!

#TBT. Tomorrow is our Birthday! Ida Public Libra

#TBT. Tomorrow is our Birthday! Ida Public Library was officially opened to the public with a grand dedication ceremony on February 12, 1913. Board President John Foote thanked Andrew Carnegie and General Fuller for providing the funds for the new library. “It is impossible to measure in dollars and cents the advantages to a good, well-conducted library”. (BDR, 2/19/1913). We couldn’t agree more! If you haven’t been to the library in a while, stop in this week to wish us a Happy Birthday! Thank you for your continued support of our beautiful public library.
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Still stricken by the loss of her mother, Bree is

Still stricken by the loss of her mother, Bree is struggling to keep up with her early college program. But one night she witnesses a young man fighting a mysterious monster, and his attempt to wipe her memories only awakens a lost one: there was another magician at the scene of her mother’s death. Driven by the need to know the truth, Bree infiltrates a secret magic society on her college campus descended from the knights of Arthur’s Round Table, where mysteries run deeper than she can ever know, and she may findLe she is more tied to the oncoming war than she realizes. A breakout new YA fantasy, Tracey Deonn weaves a masterful work of magic and mystery that will leave you excited for more.

Find Legendborn in the New YA fiction section, now located upstairs.
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