Meriden Community Library

Join us Thursday, May 31st at 7 p.m. at Jefferson Assembly of God for

PUPPETS, SONGS, AND STORY-TIME-FUN!

Then sign up for this year’s Meriden Community Library Summer Reading Program:

Dream Big READ!

Do you have a project, math assignment, a report, or test to study for?

Mondays and Wednesdays after school we will have a teacher on hand at the Library to help students with any homework needs.

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The book club is reading:

“The The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise” by Eleanor Brown

Set in the popular tourist attraction in present-day London, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise is an exquisite story of love, loss, and a one-hundred-eighty-one-year-old pet.

Balthazar Jones has lived and worked in the Tower of London for the past eight years. Being a Beefeater is no easy job, and when Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie of the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes go missing, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent tourists running for their lives. Still, that chaos is nothing compared to what happens when his wife, Hebe, makes a surprise announcement. What’s a Beefeater to do?

(synopsis from amazon.com)