Did you know you can check out ebooks from the library? In
order to do so, you search and download via Overdrive Media Console. There
are "how to" pages online to walk you through the download process. There are
also brochures here at the library to help, or as always, just ask one of us.
As ebooks have grown more popular, the Hamilton-Wenham
Library has been purchasing titles just for you to check out. We've recently
acquired a few children's titles, and will be adding more. There are a lot more children's ebooks and audiobooks that are available to all members of MVLC
including you. Check one out today!
August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid--but his new classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community's struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.
By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate theirNew York City
neighborhood. But things start to unravel. Sal gets punched by a new kid for
what seems like no reason, and he shuts Miranda out of his life. The apartment
key that Miranda’s mom keeps hidden for emergencies is stolen. And then Miranda
finds a mysterious note scrawled on a tiny slip of paper:
I am coming to save your friend’s life, and my own.
I must ask two favors. First, you must write me a letter.
The notes keep coming, and Miranda slowly realizes that whoever is leaving them knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet…
For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery - about her own identity, the mysterious father she's never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering deep below the water's surface.
Also available through Over Drive Advantage are two other books in the series:
Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep
Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret
Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely
superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo.
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has
unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but
self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic
book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person to step
in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has
been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry—and that
Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the
promise of a capacious heart. Also check this one out as an audiobook.
2013 Newbery Winner! Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at
the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans
watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life
in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan
thinks about TV, friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But
mostly Ivan thinks about art. Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from
her family, and she makes Ivan see their home—and his own art—through new eyes.
When Ruby arrives, change comes with her, and it's up to Ivan to make it a
change for the better.
A story about spies, games, and friendship. Seventh grader
Georges moves into a Brooklyn apartment building and meets Safer, a
twelve-year-old self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy recruit.
His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives in the apartment
upstairs. But as Safer becomes more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: what
is a lie, and what is a game? How far is too far to go for your only friend?
Elise and Franklin have always been best friends. Elise has
always lived in the big house with her loving Uncle and Aunt, because Elise's
parents died when she was too young to remember them. There's always been a
barn behind the house with eight locked doors on the second floor. When
Elise and Franklin start middle school, things feel all wrong. Bullying. Not
fitting in. Franklin suddenly seems babyish. Then, soon after her 12th
birthday, Elise receives a mysterious key left for her by her father. A key
that unlocks one of the eight doors upstairs in the bar . . .
Blubber is a good name for her, the note from Wendy says
about Linda. Jill crumples it up and leaves it on the corner of her desk. She
doesn't want to think about Linda or her dumb report on the whale just now.
Jill wants to think about Halloween. But Robby grabs the note, and before Linda
stops talking, it has gone halfway around the room.
That's where it all starts. There's something about Linda that makes a lot of kids in her fifth-grade class want to see how far they can go -- but nobody, least of all Jill, expects the fun to end where it does.
That's where it all starts. There's something about Linda that makes a lot of kids in her fifth-grade class want to see how far they can go -- but nobody, least of all Jill, expects the fun to end where it does.
For over-programmed middle-grader Adam Canfield, waking up
to a snow day is a dream come true—a chance to sleep late, put off planning the
next issue of THE SLASH, and make some quick cash with his shovel. But the
dream turns into a nightmare when some high-school kids mug Adam for his
shoveling money. Then not only does the media blast the embarrassing story, but
Adam's own co-editors plan a contest outing bullies at their school.
August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid--but his new classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community's struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.
What if? Why not? Could it be?
When a fortune teller's tent appears in the market square of
the city of Baltese ,
orphan Peter Augustus Duchenne knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does
his sister still live? And if so, how can he find her? The fortune teller's
mysterious answer (an elephant! An elephant will lead you there!) sets off a
chain of events so remarkable, so impossible, that you will hardly dare to
believe it's true.
By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their
I am coming to save your friend’s life, and my own.
I must ask two favors. First, you must write me a letter.
The notes keep coming, and Miranda slowly realizes that whoever is leaving them knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet…
Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is
in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of
a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with
light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who
harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark
on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a
glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives.
For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery - about her own identity, the mysterious father she's never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering deep below the water's surface.
Also available through Over Drive Advantage are two other books in the series:
Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep
Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret
This year, as in other years, Lily has planned a spectacular
summer in Rockaway. But by the summer of 1944, World War II has changed almost
everyone's life. Lily's best friend, Margaret, and her family have moved to a
wartime factory town, and Lily's father is on his way overseas to the war. There's
no one else Lily's age in Rockaway until Albert comes, a refugee from Hungary . Albert
has lost most of his family in the war; he's been through things Lily can't
imagine. But when they join together to rescue and care for a kitten, they
begin a special friendship.
In Ivy and Bean Bound to Be Bad the two girls decide to
be so good and kind and pure of thought that wild animals will befriend them.
When this doesn't work, they decide that perhaps a little badness can be good.
Ivy and Bean need some money. Ten dollars, to be exact. Never mind what for. Okay, it s for low-fat Belldeloon cheese in a special just-for-you serving size. Don t ask why. How are Ivy and Bean going to make ten dollars! Hey, maybe they should write a newspaper about
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his journey to the
Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo. His father is an animal wrangler, so he's grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and more in his backyard. The critters he can handle. His father is the unpredictable one.
When his dad takes a job with a reality TV show called "Expedition Survival!", Wahoo figures he'll have to do a bit of wrangling himself--to keep his dad from killing Derek Badger, the show's boneheaded star, before the shoot is over. But the job keeps getting more complicated. Derek Badger seems to actually believe his PR and insists on using wild animals for his stunts. And Wahoo's acquired a shadow named Tuna--a girl who's sporting a shiner courtesy of her old man and needs a place to hide out.
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now
We also have the entire Harry Potter series available.
In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry, an orphan,
lives with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son,
Dudley. One day just before his eleventh birthday, an owl tries to deliver a
mysterious letter—the first of a sequence of events that end in Harry meeting a
giant man named Hagrid. Hagrid explains Harry's history to him: When he was a
baby, the Dark wizard, Lord Voldemort, attacked and killed his parents in an
attempt to kill Harry; but the only mark on Harry was a mysterious
lightning-bolt scar on his forehead. Now he has been invited to attend Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the headmaster is the great wizard
Albus Dumbledore. All events lead irrevocably toward a second encounter with
Lord Voldemort, who seeks an object of legend known as the Sorcerer's Stone...
Click the book cover to be linked to the other books in the series.
These are just the titles available exclusively to Hamilton-Wenham patrons. However, there are lots of others available to you as well including the Magic Tree House series, the Artemis Fowl series and classics such as
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