Hampton Library Weekly Reads

Here's three great picks from Capt. Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library:

'Mercy Creek' by Matt Mathews

****Local Author **** Mercy Creek by Matt Mathews of Greenville, winner of the South Carolina Arts Commission First Novel Prize, is a memorable novel published (spring 2011) by the award-winner Hub City Press. Isaac, a teenager dealing with his mother's death, searches for the culprit behind recent break-ins in his hometown for a cash reward, but while digging around, he realizes that the victims may be hiding a disturbing secret. 

'Emory's Gift' by W. Bruce Cameron

In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.

'Panda Kindergarten' by Joanne Ryder

School is in session! But this is no ordinary kindergarten class. Meet sixteen young giant panda cubs at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the Wolong Nature Preserve. The cubs are raised together from infancy in a protected setting, where they grow strong. Under the watchful eyes of the scientists and workers, the cubs learn skills that will help prepare them to be released into the wild.

Check out these books and more this week at Capt. Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library.