Reading Challenge
November New Arrivals
Perfect reads to cozy up with as you gather around the table!
Adult Books
- “An Author’s Guide to Murder” – Beatriz Williams
- “Autism and Adolescence” – Temple Grandin
- “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- “Caring for Your Baby and Young Child” – American Academy of Pediatrics
- “Cher: The Memoir” – Cher
- “Christmas with the Queen” – Hazel Gaynor
- “City and Its Uncertain Walls” – Haruki Murakami
- “City of Night Birds” – Juhea Kim
- “English for Everyone”
- “Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense” – Joyce Carol Oates
- “Guilt and Ginataan” – Mia P Manansala
- “Holly Jolly Ever After” – Julie Murphey
- “House of Cross” – James Patterson
- “How to Let Things Go” – Shunmyo Masuno
- “I Decided to Live as Me” – Kim Suhyun
- “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” – Sophie Cousens
- “Lazarus Man” – Richard Price
- “Life’s Short, Talk Fast” – Ann Hood
- “Merry Little Meet Cute” – Julie Murphy
- “My Picture Day” – Fujiwara Maki
- “Now or Never” – Janet Evanovich
- “Oklahoma’s Most Notorious Cases” – Kent Frates
- “Oklahoma’s Most Notorious Cases: Vol. 2” – Kent Frates
- “Pony Confidential” – Christina Lynch
- “Queer as Folklore” – Sacha Coward
- “Serviceberry” – Robin Wall Kimmerer
- “Songbird & the Heart of Stone” – Carissa Broadbent
- “Teller of Small Fortunes” – Julie Leong
- “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” – Naomi Wood
- “Time of the Child” – Niall Williams
- “Transformers Vol. 1: Robots in Disguise” – Daniel Warren Johnson
- “Transformers Vol. 2:” – Daniel Warren Johnson
- “Treasure Hunters Club” -Tom Ryan
- “Un Lugar Feliz” – Emily Henry
- “Watership Down: The Graphic Novel” – Richard Adams
- “Wedding Witch” – Erin Sterling
- “What If” – Randall Munroe
Young Adult Books
- “The Ancient’s Game” – Loni Cirttenden
- “Bane of Asgard” – Cinda Williams Chima
- “Big Jim and the White Boy” – David Walker
- “Castle Swimmer: Vol. 1” – Wendy Martin
- “Concerning Wings” – Katie Cook
- “Cooking with Monsters #2” – Jordan Alsaqa
- “Darkly” – Krystal Marquis
- “Dead Girls Don’t Dream” – Nino Cipri
- “Daventports: More Than This” – Krystal Marquis
- “Flopping in a Winter Wonderland” – Jason June
- “For She is Wraith” – Emily Varga
- “How to be a Manga Artist” – Balthazaar Pagani
- “How to Survive Your Parents” – Shawn Goodman
- “I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call” – Jamison Shea
- “I’m Here: Peer Counseling Guide for Teens” – James J Crist
- “Illustrated History of Urban Legends” – Adams Allsuch Boardman
- “Legend of the White Snake” – Sher Lee
- “The Love Interest” – Helen Comerford
- “Mark of Athena” – Rick Riordan
- “Midnights with You” – Clare Osongco
- “Not for the Fair of Heart” – Lex Croucher
- “Our Deadly Designs” – Kalyn Josephson
- “The Shadow Rule All” – Abigail Owen
- “Six of Crows” – Leigh Bardugo
- “Under the Heron’s Light” – Randi Pink
- “Visitations” – Corey Egbert
- “Where the Library Hides” – Isabel Ibanez
Children Books
- “Beware the Dragon and the Nozzlewock” – Vikram Madan
- “Biscuit Visits the Firehouse” – Alyssa Satin
- “Chooch Helped” – Andrew L Rogers
- “Drag and Rex 1: Forever Friends” – Susan Lubner
- “Drag and Rex 2: Sweet and Silly” – Sudan Lubner
- “Emilio Sloth’s Modern Manners” – Renee Ahdieh
- “En Los Naranjales” – Andrew Cruz Floren
- “Feel Calm” – Andy J. Pizza
- “Ghost of the Woods” – Elisabetta Dami
- “Gilmore Girls: At Home in Star Hollow” – Mical Ostow
- “Go! Go! Dino!” – Kaz Windness
- “Good Night World–I Love You So” – Olivia Herrick
- “Habia Una Vez…El Fuego del Dragon” – Beatrice Blue
- “Hat for House” – Aubrey Perrott
- “Hot Mess – Diary of a Wimpy Kid 19” – Jeff Kinney
- “Hugs for Pugs” – Ethan Long
- “I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011” – Lauren Tarshis
- “If I Had a Dragon” – Gabby Dawnay
- “Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faces Statue” – Jerzy Drozd
- “Last Kids on Earth and the Cosmic Beyond” – Max Brailler
- “Let’s Get Festival: Celebrations Around the World” – Joanna Konczak
- “Los Animales de la Granja” – DK
- “Los Ciclos de la Naturaleza” – DK
- “Lost in the Empire City” – Avi
- “Mars: Explore the Mysteries of the Red Planet” – DK
- “Minecraft” – Heart of Cobblestone Vol. 1″ – Andrew Clemson
- “Mishka” – Edward Van de Vendel
- “Mountain: Go On a Grand Tour of the Highest Places on Earth” – DK
- “Mouse and His Dog” – Katherine Applegate
- “My So-Called Family” – Gia Gordon
- “Og Finds the Cog” – Ame Dyckman
- “Other Side of Tomorrow” – Tina Cho
- “Outdoor Time” – Elizabeth Verdick
- “Pinkalicous: Lost in Paris” – Victoria Kann
- “Play Games with Me” – Kat Chen
- “Power to the Parasites!” – Chelsea L Wood
- “Rema, Reema, Rema, Tu Bote” – Annie Kubler
- “Ribbon Skirt” – Cameron Mukwa
- “Robots: Explore the World of Robotics and AI” – Henny Admoni
- “Shape of Lost Things” – Sarah Everett
- “Spooky Lakes” – Geo Rutherford
- “Team Unihorn and Woolly #2: Revenge of the Unicorn” – Alexis Frederick-Frost
- “Truth About 5th Grade” – Mark Parisi
- “Umami” – Jacob Grant
- “Uni’s First Recital” – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- “Voice in the Storm” – Karl James Mountford
- “We Are Up a Tree!” – Jeff Mack
- “Whalesong: The True Story of the Musician Who Talked to Orcas” – Zachariah Ohora
- “When Grandma’s Cook” – Margot Mustich
- “Where is Yellowstone?” – Sarah Fabiny
- “White House: A Meet the Capital Book” – Lindsay Ward
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October New Arrivals
Our new arrivals are frighteningly good! 👻
Adult Books
- “1984 : Classicos Illustrados” – George Orwell
- “Anxious Generation” – Jonathan Haidt
- “Blood Over Bright Haven” – M.L. Wang
- “Blue House” – Paula Hawkins
- “Bringer of Dust” – J.M. Miro
- “Crescent Moon Tearoom” – Stacy Sivinski
- “Curdle Creek” – Yvonne Battle-Felton
- “Dead Take the A Train” – Richard Kadrey
- “From Here to the Great Unknown” – Lisa-Marie Presley
- “Full Moon Coffee Shop” – Mai Mochizuki
- “Hillbilly Elegy” – JD Vance
- “How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?” – Anna Montague
- “I Love You: Recipes From the Heart: – Pamela Anderson
- “I Want to Be a Wall, Vol. 3” – Honami Shirono
- “Intermezzo” – Sally Rooney
- “Joy of Slow” – Leslie Martino
- “Just Add Water” – Katie Ledecky
- “Killing Time” – MC Beaton
- “Like Mother, Like Mother” – Susan Rieger
- “Meditations for Mortals” – Oliver Burkeman
- “Melania” – Melania Trump
- “Might Red” – Louise Erdich
- “Model Home” – Rivers Soloman
- “Mother-Daughter Murder Night” – Nina Simon
- “Murders in Great Diddling” – Katarina Bivald
- “Nightmare Before Kissmas” – Sara Raasch
- “Paper Boat: New and Select Poems: 1961-2023” – Margaret Atwood
- “Restaurant of Lost Recipes” – Hisashi Kashiwai
- “Shock Induction” – Chuck Palahniuk
- “Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp” – Leonie Swann
- “Throne of Secrets” – Kerri Maniscalco
- “Wedding Witch” – Erin Sterling
- “What to Wear and Why” – Tiffanie Darke
- “Witches of El Paso” – Luis Jaramillo
- “You Can Cook Everything” – DK
Young Adult Books
- “Blood Orchid” – Kylie Lee Baker
- “Caters and Crowns” – Elizabeth Lowham
- “Dagger and the Flame” – Catherine Doyle
- “Dark Becomes Her” – Judy I Lin
- “Deathly Compendium of Poison Plants” – Rebecca Hirsch
- “Devil is a Part-Timer Vol. 1” – Satoshi Wagahara
- “Dividing Sky” – Jill Tew
- “Divine Mortals” – Amanda Helander
- “Fate of Magic” – Sara Raasch
- “Glass Girl” – Kathleen Glasgow
- “Halfway There” – Christine Mari
- “Heartstopper #3 & 4” – Alice Oseman
- “Heir” – Sabaa Tahir
- “Hunger Games: Illustrated Edition” – Suzanne Collins
- “Killer House Party” – Lily Anderson
- “Lore Olympus Vol. 7” – Rachel Smythe
- “Modern Embroidery Handbook” – Clair Albans
- “Side Quest: A Visual History of Roleplaying Games” – Samuel Sattin
- “Spy X Family Vol 6” – Tatsuya Endo
- “Tangleroot” – Kalela WIlliams
- “Teen Breakup Survival Guide” – Lenora M Ziegler
- “Terrifying Tales of Vivian Vance” – Josh Ulrich
- “Thief of the Heights” – Son M
- “Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…” – Jason Reynolds
- “Warrior of Legend” – Kendare Blake
- “Zodiac Rising” – Katie Zhao
Children Books
- “A Brush with Magic” – Flora Ahn
- “Alina in a Pinch” – Shenaaz G Naji
- “Animal Countdown” – Lauran Vaccaro Seeger
- “Big Nate Remains Calm” – Lincoln Peirce
- “Bitsy and Boozle Tell a Story!” – Sara Goetter
- “Boy vs. Shark” – Paul Gilligan
- “Changes for RIley” – Random House
- “Children’s Book of Philosophy” – DK
- “Drawn Onward” – Daniel Nayeri
- “Elogio Al Misterio” – Ada Limon
- “Fox Plays Ball” – Corey R Tabor
- “Get the Giggles” – Andy J Pizza
- “Happy Town” – Greg Van Eekhout
- “How to Sing a Song” – Alexander Kwama
- “How to Spot a Fairy” – Sarah Glenn Marsh
- “In Praise of Mystery” – Ada Limon
- “John the Skeleton” – Triinu Laan
- “Karen’s Grandmothers” – Ann M Martin
- “Katie the Catsitter : The Purrrfect Plan” – Colleen Venable
“Las Magnificas Plantitas Bailadoras de Mama” – Jesus Trejo - “Lone Wolf Goes to School” – Kiah Thomas
- “Look, Look!” – Peter Linenthal
- “Los Planetas” – Ada Limon
- “Lost in the Library” – Joe McGee
- “Maisy’s Rocket” – Lucy Cousins
- “May’s Big Messy Family!” – A.T. Woehling
- “Meg and Greg: Frank the Skunk” – Elspeth Rae
- “Monster Locker’ – Jorge Aguirre
- “Mr. Lepron’s Mystery Soup” – Giovanna Zoboli
- “Onyx & Beyond” – Amber McBride
- “Salt, Pepper, Season, Spice” Jacques Pasquet
- “Sleep, Little Batman” – Random House
- “Sometimes We Fall” – Randall de SEve
- “Stand Up!” – Tori Sharp
- “Stella & Marigold” – Annie Barrows
- “Teeny Tiendas: The Flower Shop” – Lourdes Heuer
- “Thank You” – Jarvis
- “The Big Bad Wolf in My House” – Valerie Fontaine
- “The Fairy Tale Fan Club” – Richard Ayoade
- “The Fix-Its: Power Up with Power Drill” – Sarah Lynn Reul
- “The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors” – Drew Daywalt
- “The Mistakes That Made Us: Confessions from Twenty Poets” – Iren Latham
- :The Rise of Issa Igwe” – Shanna Miles
- “The Tinkering Workshop” – Ryan Jenkins
- “Turning Twelve” – Kathryn Ormsbee
- “When Water Flows” – Aida Salazar
- “Which Way Around the Galaxy” – Cressida Cowell
- “Word Museum” – Isabel Otter
- “Yasmin La Bibliotecaria” – Aly Hatem
🎃Halloween Books🎃
- Adult
- “All the Colors of the Dark” – Whitaker
- “American Murder Houses’ – Steve Lehto
- “Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match” – Shelly Thorne
- “Blood on the Tracks” – Ashimi
- “Ghostland” – Colin Dickey
- “Halloween Tree” – Ray Bradbury
- “Haunted Castles” – Ray Russell
- “Haunting of Hill House” – Shirley Jackson
- “Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century” – Kim Fu
- “Masters of Death” – Olivie Blake
- “Our There Screaming: An Anthology” – Jordan Peele
- “Poems Bewitched and Haunted” – John Hollander
- “Rewitched” – Lucy Jane Wood
- “Tripping Arcadia” – Kit Mayquist
- “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” – Shirley Jackson
- “White is for Witching” – Helen Oyeyemi
- “Witches’ – Brenda Lozano
- Childrens
- “A Bite Above the Rest” – Christine Virnig
- “Abuelita’s Gift” – Mariana Rios Ramirez
- “I Got the Spooky Spirit” – Connie Schofield-Morrison
- “Is There Anybody Out There?” – Laura Krantz
- “It Came From the Trees” – Ally Russell
- “Little Ghost Makes a Friend” – Maggie Edkins Willis
- “Little Red Autumn on the Farm” – Will Hillenbrand
- “Nothing Scares a Dinosaur” – Jonathan Fenske
- “Spooky, Scary Skeletons” – Andrew Gold
- “The Old Willis Place” – Mary Downing Hahn
- “Vamos! Let’s Celebrate Halloween” – Raul the Third
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July New Arrivals
Dive into one of our new arrivals this summer!
Adult Books
- “Ashes and the Star-Cursed King” – Carissa Broadbent
- “Baby Sign Language Made Easy” – Lane Rebelo
- “Belzebubs” – JP Ahonen
- “Belzebubs Vol 2.: No Rest for the Wicked” – JP Ahonen
- “Blood Over Bright Haven” – Keanu Reaves
- “Briar Club” – Kate Quinn
- “Bright Sword” – Lev Grossman
- “Bury Your Gays” – Chuck Tingle
- “Catalina” – Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- “Dallergut Dream Department Store” – Miye Lee
- “El Gran Gatsby” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “It’s Elementary” – Elise Bryant
- “Let’s Make Some Lunch” – Sulhee Jessica Woo
- “Lion Women of Tehran” – Marjan Kamali
- “Long Island Compromise” – Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- “Lost Boys of Santa Chionia” – Juliet Grames
- “Lost Story” – Meg Shaffer
- “Love of my Afterlife” – Kristy Greenwood
- “Mastering AI: A survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future” – Jeremy Jahn
- “Medea” – Nancy Pena
- “Mujercitas” – Louisa May Alcott
- “Neurotribes” – Steve Silberman
- “Nicked” – MT Anderson
- “Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love” – India Holton
- “Our Kind of Game” – Johanna Copeland
- “Rivales Divinos” – Rebecca Ross
- “Slow Dance” – Rainbow Rowell
- “Spanish English Visual Dictionary” – DK
- “Spellshop” – Sarah Beth Durst
- “Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum” – Margalit Fox
- “Uniquely Human” – Barry M. Prizant
- “Wedding People” – Alison Espach
- “What the Wild Sea Can Be” – Helen Scales
- “When Among Crows” – Veronica Roth
- “Where the Body Was” – Ed Brubaker
- “Woman, Life, Freedom” – Marjane Satrapi
Young Adult Books
- “Asking for a Friend” – Kara H.L. Chen
- :Beneath These Cursed Stars” – Lexi Ryan
- “Break to You” – Neal Shusterman
- “A Darker Mischief” – Derek Milman
- “The Darkness Within Us” – Tricia Levenseller
- “Demon Slayer Vol. 2” – Koyoharu Gotouge
- “Demon Slayer Vol. 3” – Koyoharu Gotouge
- “The Ghostkeeper” – Johanna Taylor
- “The Grandest Game” – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- “The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky” – Josh Galarza
- “Grief in the Fourth Dimension” – Jennifer Yu
- “Hidden Systems” – Dan Nott
- “How to Die Famous” – Benjamin Dean
- “I Will Never Leave You” – Kara A. Kennedy
- “Killers of the Flower Moon: Adaptation” – David Grann
- “Made in Asian American: A History for Young People” – Erika Lee
- “Maybe an Artist” – Liz Montague
- “The Mirror of Beast” – Alexandra Bracken
- “Not About a Boy” – Myah Hollis
- “On the Bright Side” – Anna Sortino
- “One Punch Man Vol. 4” – One
- “One Punch Man Vol. 5” – One
- “Ping Pong Queen of Chinatown” – Andrew Yang
- “Portrait of a Shadow” – Meriam Metoui
- “The Stolen Throne” – Abigail Owen
- “Such Charming Liars” – Karen McManus
- “Sunrise Nights” – Jeff Zentner
- “Time and Time Again” – Chatham Greenfield
- “Trespass Against Us” – Leon Kemp
- “UnOrdinary Vol. 2” – Uru-Chan
Children Books
- “A to Z Animal Mysteries #4: Dolphin Detectives” – Ron Roy
- “Amazing Immortals” – Dinah Williams
- “Amir and the Jinn Princess” M.T. Khan
- “Amy Meets her Stepsister” – Callie Barkley
- “Baby Loves Sports” – Duopress Labs
- “Belly Song” – Mother Moon
- ” Big and Little” – Harriet Evans
- “Black & White in Color” – Tana Hoban
- “Bodega Cats #1” – Hilda Eunice Burgos
- “Curveball” – Pablo Cartaya
- “Dare to Be Daring” – Chelsea Wallace
- “Don’t Push the Button: On the Farm” – Bill Cotter
- “Dork Diaries 11: Tales from a Not-So-Friendly Frenemy” – Rachel Russell
- “Dot the Ladybug: The Missing Dot” – Kallie George
- “”Felix Powell, Boy Dog” – Erin Entrada Kelly
- “First 100 Words in English and Spanish” – Ana Godinez
- “From Plant to Plate” – Darry Gadzekpo
- “Guts” – Raina Telgemeier
- “I Am La Chiva!” – Karol Hernandez
- “I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79” – Lauren Tarshis
- “Inside the Compost Bin” – Melody Sumaoang Plan
- “Just What to Do” – Kyle Lukoff
- “Meet the Mushrooms” – Sonali Fry
- “Minecraft: Zombies Unleashed” – Nick Eliopulos
- “Mini Bluey” – Penguin Young Books
- “Mothering Heights” – Dav Pilkey
- “Narwhal’s Sweet Tooth” – Ben Clanton
- “Night Stories: Folktales from Latin America” – Liniers
- “On a Mushroom Day” – Chris Baker
- “Pasta Pasta Lots Pasta” – Aimee Lucido
- “Patrick and the Not-So-Perfect Party” – Anne Wynter
- “Pizza for Pia” – Betsey Groban
- “Presidential Elections and Other Cool Facts” – Syl Sobel
- “Prunella” – Beth Ferry
- “Quinnelope and the Cookie King Catastrophe” – H.F. Brownfield
- “Scram: Society of Creatures Real and Magical” – Rory Lucey
- “Sister Day” – Jyoti Rajan Gopal
- “Sketty and Meatball” – Sarah Weeks
- “Smile” – Raina Telgemeier
- “That Always Happens Sometimes” – Kiley Frank
- “The Bad Guys in the Serpent and the Beast” – Aaron Blabey
- “The Big Squeeze” – Molly Harris
- “The Brainiac’s Book of Robots and AI” – Paul Virr
- “The Creepening of Dogwood House” -Eden Royce
- “The Dark!” – Lindsey Leigh
- “The First Week of School” – Drew Beckmeyer
- “The Haunted States of America” – Solomon Hughes
- “The Magician’s Nephew” – C.S. Lewis
- “The Night Librarian” – Christopher Lincoln
- “This Makes me Anxious” – Courtney Carbone
- “Tiny Titans” – Mary M. Cerullo
- “Vacation” – Ame Dyckman
- “Warriors: Graphic Novel” – Erin Hunter
- “Welcome to AI: What is Artificial Intelligence and How Will It Change Our Lives?” – Owen Davey
- “Wings of Fire Graphic Novel” – Tui T Sutherland
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Winter Reads BINGO Challenge
El Reno Carnegie Library’s Winter Reading Program for 2022 has a fun new twist: BINGO! Library goers can participate using the paper BINGO card or use our online reading challenge platform, Beanstack, to log reading and keep track of completed activities. All ages are able to participate, though the prizes are different for each. Because Winter Reading is geared more towards teens and adults, the activities and prizes reflect that. Want more information? See below or head over to the Winter Reads page on our website.
Prizes:
Children who hit BINGO in any direction are entered to win a winter Squishmallow.
Teen and Adults who hit BINGO in any direction will win one classic Carnegie Public Library mug.
Teen and Adults who earn a BLACKOUT by completing every activity and reading milestone will be entered to win an Iron Tree gift card.
Beanstack BINGO Card:
By participating on Beanstack, readers can hit Reading Streaks, compete with friends and family, earn fun colorful digital badges, and log everything from their smart phone. Their BINGO card will look like this, each square filling in with a colorful corresponding badge as the item is completed. Check out our Beanstack FAQ to get started.
Paper BINGO Card:
Use the BINGO card below to participate offline. But be sure to let a staff member know that you are participating by calling, emailing, or stopping by! We will keep track of all participation for statistics and so that you are able to redeem your card for prizes!
October Reading Challenge!
Spooky season is upon us! Halloween is a holiday full of merrymaking, magic, and mischief. Get ready to monster mash, have ghoulish fun, or curl up with a chilling book. Log your reading and activities to earn badges all month long.
