Edison Public Library: Join our Winter Reading Challenge!

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The Edison Public Library has teamed up with Beanstack for an all new reading challenge from December 18, 2022 through February 18, 2023.

The challenge is broken up into four categories: Early Literacy (birth to age 4), School Age (ages 5 to 11), Teens (ages 12 to 18), and Adult (ages 18 & up) and prizes will be rewarded for each category.

How do you win? Beanstack has created a bingo-style board and assigned tasks to each square. Each participant who completes the tasks and scores a Bingo badge will be entered into a random drawing for an Amazon gift card. That means you just need to complete the challenges to fill one row, column, or diagonal and you’re entered to win!

You can sign up for the challenge by visiting edisonpubliclibrary.beanstack.org.

The theme for this challenge is “All the Feels,” so we’re asking you to read books that deal with feelings and emotions. There are no required books to read, but here are some suggestions:

EARLY LITERACY

Tiger Has A Tantrum
by Sue Graves
JEREAD 152.4 GRA.

Tiger has been angry all day. When Monkey accidentally chooses the book that Tiger wants, Tiger has a full blown tantrum in the library. How can Miss Bird help Tiger to manage his anger, and how can he make up with his friends?

Also available as an eBook on HOOPLA.

My Body Is A Rainbow: The Color Of My Feelings
by Mallika Chopra
J 152.4 CHOPRA 2021

A wellness expert presents a picture book in which she shows young children how to feel emotions in their body through color and provides breathing exercises for dealing with big feelings.

Making Faces: A First Book Of Emotions
by Molly Magnuson
J-EASY ABRAMS

After images of baby faces introduce six facial expressions: happy, angry, surprised, silly, and sleepy, the reader is asked to make the same face and then find that baby among several other faces. Includes a mirror for babies to watch themselves make faces.

The Happy Book
by Andy Rash
J-EASY RASH

Best friends Camper and Clam work through their feelings.

The Color Monster Goes to School
by Anna Llenas
J-EASY LLENAS

A back-to-school tale starring the mischievous hero from the best-selling The Color Monster finds the shaggy rainbow critter nervously starting school with no idea of what to expect before a friend introduces him to other students and fun-filled classroom activities.

Field Guide to the Grumpasaurus
by Edward Hemingway
J EASY HEMINGWAY

A field guide to the fierce but adorable grumpasaurus, found in every home where there are small children.

Max's Box
by Brian Wray
J-EASY WRAY

Max's parents give him a very special gift: a tiny, magical box that will hold everything, from his toys to his feelings. Each negative emotion he feels--anger, embarrassment, sadness, loneliness--gets added to the box, which grows and grows. Eventually it is so large that it keeps him from doing what he loves. With some help from his friends and family, Max is able to turn the box into something beautiful and let it go.

Also available as an eBook on HOOPLA.

SCHOOL AGE

My Mixed Emotions: Help Your Kids Handle Their Feelings
by Elinor Greenwood
J 152.4 GRE

Looks at dealing with bullying, understanding grief, and coping with large family changes, such as divorce. Divided into happiness, fear, anger, and sadness, My Mixed Emotions explores the four main emotions, the reasons why we feel them, and the science behind each one.

Sometimes I Feel Worried
by Jaclyn Jaycox
JEREAD 152.4 JAY

What does it mean to feel worried? Everyone feels worried sometimes. Learn how to recognize, name, and manage your emotions. Stunning photos illustrate what being worried looks like. A mindfulness activity is included.

Also available as an eBook on HOOPLA.

Just Feel: How To Be Stronger, Happier, Healther, And More
by Mallika Chopra
J 152.4 CHO

Presents a guide to empowerment that counsels readers on how to harness their emotional awareness to promote independence and problem-solving.

Just Roll With It
by Lee Durfey-Lavoie
J GRAPHIC FIC DURFEYLAV 2021

Maggie just wants to get through her first year of middle school. But between finding the best after-school clubs, trying to make friends, and avoiding the rumored monster on school grounds, she's having a tough time ... so she might need a little help from her twenty-sided dice. But what happens if Maggie rolls the wrong number?

Grumpy Monkey
by Suzanne Lang
J-EASY LANG

Jim Panzee wakes up in a bad mood one beautiful day, but he keeps denying he is grumpy even as his friends give advice for feeling better.

Fish In A Tree
by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
J-FIC HUNT

Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read.

Judy Moody
by Megan McDonald
J-FIC MCDONALD

Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.

TEENS

Why We Rage: The Science of Anger
by Melissa Mayer
J 152.4 DEC

Have you ever blown up at your best friend or sibling? Maybe you were just so angry, but you didn't really know why. The answer is in the science of rage!

The Teen Girl's Anxiety Survival Guide
by Lucie Hemmen
Y 155.5 HEM

Offers ten powerful skills specifically designed to help teen girls cope with anxious thoughts and feelings in healthy ways.

Also available as an eBook on HOOPLA.

Why We Cry: The Science Of Tears
by Matt Lilley
Y 152.4 LIL

Do you tear up watching a sappy commercial? Sniffle when your best friend suddenly ignores you? Maybe you sometimes just get a case of the blues you can't seem to shake. Have you ever wondered why? The answer is in the science behind unhappiness! Learn tips to decode what's happening in your body, find out how tears can sometimes be helpful, and learn when it's time to reach out for help.

The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Y-FIC ACEVEDO

Xiomara feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. When she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, she knows that she could never get around Mami's rules to attend, much less speak her words out loud. But still, in spite of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.

Also available as an eBook on HOOPLA.

Far From The Tree
by Robin Benway
Y-FIC BENWAY

Placing her daughter for adoption left a hole in Grace's heart; her adoptive parents can't fill it, and her birth mother's unreachable--then Grace learns she has siblings.

Also available as an eBook on HOOPLA.

The Sun Is Also A Star
by Nicola Yoon
Y FIC YOON

Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--and fall in love.

Also available as an eBook on eLibraryNJ.

They Both Die At The End
by Adam Silvera
YAFIC SILVERA 2017

In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.

Also available as an eBook on HOOPLA.

ADULTS

Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
by
Leonard Mlodinow
152.4 MLODINOW 2022

Shows how emotions can be assessed, regulated, and controlled and concludes that understanding them is a lifelong project that's 'not just a science but an art.'

I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy
by Cris Beam
152.41 BEA

Examines empathy by illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion.

Five Tuesdays In Winter
by Lily King
FIC KING 2021

Ten short stories that explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs.

Also available as an eBook on HOOPLA.

A Woman Is No Man
by Etaf Rum
FIC RUM

Follows the matriarchal generations of 18-year-old Deya's family as her Arabic grandparents search for a suitor against her will, just as they did for her mother years prior. Though Deya was told her parents died in a car accident, a letter makes her question everything as she unravels her family's secrets to learn her mother's truth.

Also available as an eBook on HOOPLA.

A Good Apology: Four Steps To Make Things Right
by Molly Howes
158.2 HOW

Outlines the importance of a proper apology and how we can all hone the technique using a four-step approach.

The Power Of Regret
by Daniel H. Pink
LP 152.4 PINK 2022

Draws on research in social psychology, neuroscience, and biology to understand how regret works and how it can help us make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and bring greater meaning to our lives.

Me Before You
by Jojo Moyes
FIC MOYES

Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and tries to demonstrate to him that life is still worth living.

Also available as an eBook on eLibraryNJ.

We hope you’ll take part in the challenge, and we wish everyone the best of luck!

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