Jean Little Library: This week at the library; or, Why does everything happen at once?

One of my favorite little patrons decorating ornaments

Happening at the library

Notes

Why does everything happen at once? Staff are still sick, now I'm sick, and I've got one more week, well, make that a week and a half of craziness before I can get down to really working on the budget and planning for next year. Oh, and life-size candyland of course.
Pinterest page for 7th grade outreach visit
Partial list in genres

Collection development notes

Popular choices at the 7th grade booktalks were the Nathan Hale graphic novels, Rick Riordan presents, Smile and read-alikes, My big fat zombie goldfish, Hamstersaurus Rex, Jennifer Nielsen (historical fiction), and Tod Olson's Lost series. I had requests for sports books and romance - definitely need more sports books.
In video games, the approximately 135 kids we polled were primarily into Minecraft with a few Fortnite (from my knowledge of the community, I would guess that a few more kids are playing Fortnite than admitted it - most kids aren't allowed to play.) Roblox is dead. Xbox seemed to be leading over Playstation, but when we actually counted the kids it turned out that Xbox fans are just louder. Only a couple kids were into Switch. There are small pockets of manga and anime fans, but those fans are dedicated, even if there are less than 5 in each class.
Request for "baseball comics." I don't have Fuzzy Baseball - not even sure it's still in print, but note to self I should get more Jake Maddox graphic novels. Also, First Second should do sports comics to go with their science, maker, and upcoming history comics.

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