Children's Programming

Children's

 Programming

Thursday, March 2 at 4:00 p.m. 

Read Across America

Celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday with stories, activities, and a visit from a special guest reader!

Tuesday, March 7 at 4:00 p.m

Afterschool Cool: Tie Dye Magic (ages 4-11)

Learn about this fun technique and create a colorful item to enjoy!

Tuesday, March 14  at 4:00 p.m

See what fun things you can create with the library's playdough!

Tuesday, March 21 at 4:00 p.m

Afterschool Cool: Green Thumbs (ages 4-11)

Learn about nature and make something cool with the Tri-County Clemson Master Gardeners.

Tuesday, March 28  at 4:00 p.m

Afterschool Cool:  Fun with Yarn (ages 4-11) 

Discover the many ways to explore and create using yarn!

Saturday, March 4 at 10:30 a.m.

BINGO (ages 4-11) 

Play a few rounds and maybe you'll win a small prize!

Saturday, March 11 at 10:30 a.m.

STAR Therapy Dogs (ages 11 and younger) 

Make a furry friend and read a book with your new pal! Certified therapy dogs and their handlers love a good story.

Saturday, March 18 at 10.30 a.m.

Tissue Paper Flowers (ages 4-11) 

Get ready for spring by making a beautiful flower. 

Saturday, March 25 at 10:30 a.m.

I Spy Bottle (ages 11 and younger) 

I spy with my little eye... miniature items to fill your own I Spy bottle. We’ll supply the bottles, the rice, and assorted items; you bring the creativity and a sharp eye! 

Baby Storytime (ages 0-24 months with adult) 

Wednesdays, March 1, 8, 15 and 22 at 10:30 a.m.

Thursdays, March 2, 9, 16 and 23 at 10:30 a.m.

Babygarten (ages 0-24 months with adult)

Wednesday, March 29 at 10:30 a.m.

Thursday, March 30 at 10:30 a.m.

Toddler Storytime (ages 24-36 months with adult)

Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, and 28 at 10:30 a.m.

Preschool Storytime (ages 3-5 years with adult)

Mondays, March 6, 13, 20, and 27 at 10:30 a.m.

Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, and 28 at 11:30 a.m.

If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events, feel free to contact the 

Children's Department at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/ St. Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

 Mon-Thur 10-8, Fri-Sat 10-6,  Sun CLOSED

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Young Adult Programming

Teen Programming

TeenSpot Celebrates 
National Book Blitz Month
Throughout January
Vote for your favorite title in a book showdown each week. Those who select the winning book will be entered into a weekly prize drawing.

TeenSpot Seventh Annual Black History Essay Contest 

Throughout January and February

The essay contest is open to all Charleston area students in grades 6-12. One winner will be chosen from middle and high school to receive a prize package. Entries must be submitted by February 28, and the winner will be notified March 13. Visit the Reference Desk for additional details.

TeenSpot Movie Monday Presents Central Intelligence

Monday, January 9 at 3:30 p.m.

After he reconnects with an awkward pal from high school through Facebook, a mild-mannered accountant is lured into the world of international espionage. 

Rated PG-13; 114 minutes.

TeenSpot Pizza and Pages
Wednesday, January 18 at 3:30 p.m.
Chat about books, play word games, eat pizza and win prizes. Bring a copy of a book you are reading, and be prepared to share a review.

TeenSpot Movie Monday presents Suicide Squad

Monday, January 23 at 3:30 p.m.

A secret government agency recruits some of the most dangerous incarcerated super-villains to form a defensive task force. Their first mission: save the world from the apocalypse.

Rated PG-13; 130 minutes.

If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events, feel free to contact the 

Young Adult Department at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/ St. Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

  Mon-Thur 10-8, Fri-Sat 10-6,  Sun CLOSED

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com- St. Andrews Regional Lib

Photos or videos may be taken at CCPL events and activities for library use in promotion and publicity. Anyone not wanting to have their photo taken should notify library staff at the time of the event or activity.  Media interested in learning more about events at the Charleston County Public Library should contact the Library’s Public Relations and Marketing Department at 843-805-6819 or publicrelationsatccpl.org.

Black History Essay Contest

Cynthia Graham Hurd/ St. Andrew’s Regional Library TeenSpot 
Seventh Annual Black History Essay Contest

OFFICIAL RULES AND GUIDELINES 

  

Middle School / Grades 6-8 & High School / Grades 9-12 

  

Cynthia Graham Hurd/St. Andrew’s TeenSpot Black History Essay Contest is open to all grades 6-12 students in the Charleston Area.  One winner will be chosen from each level (middle school and high school) and will be awarded a prize package equaling the amount of $50.00. Entries have to be in by February 28, 2017. The winner will be notified on March 13, 2017. 

  

  

• Essays must be brought in or postmarked by February 28, 2017. The address is Hurd/St. Andrews Regional Library c/o Patrice Smith, 1735 North Woodmere Drive, Charleston, SC 29407. Also they can email to smithp@charleston.lib.sc.us with the subject line “Black History” Essay.  
• Each student may only enter one essay. 
• Essays should be no longer than 500 words in length, and should be typed or hand written in print only. Must by legible. No cursive writing will be accepted.  
• Essays submitted must include the contestant’s name, email address, telephone number, school the student attends, grade level and the title of the essay.  
• Each essay must reflect the contestant's own research, writing and original thinking.    

Essay Topic 

How could we eliminate racism in the world?

 If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events, 

feel free to contact the

Young Adult Department at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/St Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Mon-Thur 10-8, Fri-Sat 10-6,  Sun CLOSED

Children's Programming

Children's Programming

Baby Storytime (ages 0-24 months with caregiver)
Wednesdays, November 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 at 10:30 a.m.
Thursdays, November 3, 10 and 17 at 10:30 a.m.

Toddler Storytime (ages 2-3 years with adult)
Tuesdays, November 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 at 10:30 a.m.

Preschool Storytime (ages 3-5 years with adult)
Mondays, November 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesdays, November 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 at 11:30 a.m.

Afterschool Cool: Toy Makers (ages 4-11)
Tuesday, November 1 at 4 p.m.
Learn how to make a kendama and other toys.

Afterschool Cool: Fingerprint Art
Tuesday, November 8 at 4 p.m.
Use stamp pads and fingerprints to create cool scenes and characters on paper.

Afterschool Cool: Green Thumbs (ages 4-11)
Tuesday, November 15 at 4 p.m.
Learn about nature, and make something cool with the Tri-County Clemson Master Gardeners.

Afterschool Cool: Magic Tree House Club (ages 4-11)
Tuesday, November 22 at 4 p.m.
Enjoy activities and crafts based on Thanksgiving on Thursday from the popular series.

Afterschool Cool: Pete the Cat Party (ages 11 and younger)
Tuesday, November 29 at 4 p.m.
Enjoy stories, activities and a special appearance by the coolest cat around.

Turkey Pinecone Craft (ages 11 and younger)
Saturday, November 5 at 10:30 a.m.
Make a turkey pinecone to decorate your house.

STAR Therapy Dogs (ages 11 and younger)
Saturday, November 12 at 10:30 a.m.
Make a furry friend, and read a book with your new pal. Certified therapy dogs and their handlers love a good story.

Saturday Stories and Craft (ages 11 and younger)
Saturday, November 19 at 10:30 a.m.
Enjoy fun-filled stories, and make a cool craft to take home.

ArtLab (ages 11 and younger)
Saturday, November 26 at 10:30 a.m.
Experiment, explore and play with art.

If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events, feel free to contact the 

Children's Department at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/ St. Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

 Mon-Thur 10-8, Fri-Sat 10-6,  Sun CLOSED

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Teen (Young Adult) Programming

Teen Programming

St. Andrews Library Name that Mother Trivia Program
All Month Long
Guess the name of this famous mother and win a treat. Limit to 2 per student each day.

St. Andrews TeenSpot Theater Presents “War Room” 

Monday, March 7 at 4:00 pm 

A seemingly perfect family looks to fix their problems with the help of Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman. Rated PG; 120 mins. Refreshments will be provided

St. Andrews TeenSpot Wired Wednesday/ Teen Ambassador’s Meeting 
Wednesday, March 9 at 4:00pm
Come on in and have fun with technology set aside for teen use. We have laptops for surfing or homework and also gaming with the Wii system. Also come discuss plans and ideas for events at the library.

St. Andrews TeenSpot Theater Presents “Everest” 

Monday, March 14 at 4:00 pm

A climbing expedition on Mt. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm. Rated PG; 121 mins. Refreshments will be provided

STEM @ STA: Edible Car
Wednesday, March 12 at 2:00pm
Learn about vehicle design and engineering technology by designing, building and racing vehicles made entirely of food. Registration is required. 

St. Andrews TeenSpot Theater Presents “Ant Man” 

Monday, March 21at 4:00 pm

Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, cat burglar Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world. Rated PG-13; 117mins. Refreshments will be provided. 

St. Andrews Library TeenSpot

Short Stack Book Club

Wednesday, March 26 at 4:00pm
Join the St. Andrews Library Young Adult Book Club as we chat about Looking for Alaska by John Green. Refreshments will be served.

St. Andrews TeenSpot Bunnypocalypse Scavenger Hunt 

Monday, March 28- March 31 at 4:00 pm

Evil Bunnies have taken over the library and it is up to you to find them all. Use the clues to find them all and be enter to win a crazy prize. Winner will be chosen on April 1. 

If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events, 

feel free to contact the

Young Adult Department at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/St Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Mon-Thur 10-8, Fri-Sat 10-6,  Sun CLOSED

SUSIE EADES BOOK CLUB SPRING 2016

SUSIE EADES BOOK CLUB

March- July 2016

Book club meetings are held on the third Tuesday in each month from 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p. m. 

March 15, 2016 

 “Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World” by Jack Weatherford 

Fighting his way to power on the remote steppes of Mongolia, Genghis Khan developed revolutionary military strategies and weaponry that emphasized rapid attack and siege warfare, which he then brilliantly used to overwhelm opposing armies in Asia, break the back of the Islamic world, and render the armored knights of Europe obsolete. Under Genghis Khan, the Mongol army never numbered more than 100,000 warriors, yet it subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans conquered in four hundred. With an empire that stretched from Siberia to India, from Vietnam to Hungary, and from Korea to the Balkans, the Mongols dramatically redrew the map of the globe, connecting disparate kingdoms into a new world order.

But contrary to popular wisdom, Weatherford reveals that the Mongols were not just masters of conquest, but possessed a genius for progressive and benevolent rule. On every level and from any perspective, the scale and scope
of Genghis Khan's accomplishments challenge the limits of imagination. Genghis Khan was an innovative leader, the first ruler in many conquered countries to put the power of law above his own power, encourage religious freedom, create public schools, grant diplomatic immunity, abolish torture, and institute free trade. The trade routes he created became lucrative pathways for commerce, but also for ideas, technologies, and expertise that transformed the way people lived. The Mongols introduced the first international paper currency and postal system and developed and spread revolutionary technologies like printing, the cannon, compass, and abacus. They took local foods and products like lemons, carrots, noodles, tea, rugs, playing cards, and pants and turned them into staples of life around the world. The Mongols were the architects of a new way of life at a pivotal time in history.

In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World , Jack Weatherford resurrects the true history of Genghis Khan, from the story of his relentless rise through Mongol tribal culture to the waging of his devastatingly successful wars and the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed. This dazzling work of revisionist history doesn't just paint an unprecedented portrait of a great leader and his legacy, but challenges us to reconsider how the modern world was made. - From the Hardcover edition.

                

April 19, 2016

“The Colored People” by Henry Louis Gates

The man touted as America's most celebrated black scholar reminisces to his daughters about his boyhood in the polluted, dying Allegheny Mountains' papermill town of Piedmont, West Virginia. Laying out the social and emotional topography of a world shifting from segregation to integration and from colored to Negro to black, Gates evokes a bygone time and place as he moves from his birth in 1949 to 1969, when he goes off to Yale University after a year at West Virginia's Potomac State College. His pensive and sometimes wistful narrative brims with the mysteries and pangs and lifelong aches of growing up, from his encounters with sexuality, to the discovery of intellectual exhilaration as he is marked to excel in school, to his suffering a crippling injury to one of his legs and struggling frightfully for his father's respect. There is much to recommend this book as a story of boyhood, family, segregation, the pre-Civil Rights era, and the era when Civil Rights filtered down from television to local reality.

May 17, 2016  

“All the Light We Cannot  See” by Anthony Doer

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE 
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge.

June 21, 2016  

“Gray Mountain”  by John Grisham

John Grisham has a new hero . . . and she's full of surprises

The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track--until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back.

In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only read about. Mattie Wyatt, lifelong Brady resident and head of the town's legal aid clinic, is there to teach her how to "help real people with real problems." For the first time in her career, Samantha prepares a lawsuit, sees the inside of an actual courtroom, gets scolded by a judge, and receives threats from locals who aren't so thrilled to have a big-city lawyer in town. And she learns that Brady, like most small towns, harbors some big secrets.


Her new job takes Samantha into the murky and dangerous world of coal mining, where laws are often broken, rules are ignored, regulations are flouted, communities are divided, and the land itself is under attack from Big Coal. Violence is always just around the corner, and within weeks Samantha finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly.

July 19, 2016  

“Flood of Fire” by Amitav Ghosh

"The final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy. It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the East India Company. He makes his way eastward on the Hind, a transport ship that will carry him from Bengal to Hong Kong. Along the way, many characters from the Ibis Trilogy come aboard, including Zachary Reid, a young American speculator in opium futures, and Shireen, the widow of an opium merchant whose mysterious death in China has compelled her to seek out his lost son. The Hind docks in Hong Kong just as war breaks out and opium "pours into the market like monsoon flood." From Bombay to Calcutta, from naval engagements to the decks of a hospital ship, among embezzlement, profiteering, and espionage, Amitav Ghosh charts a breathless course through the culminating moment of the British opium trade and vexed colonial history."-- Provided by publisher.

If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events, feel free to contact the

Reference Department at 843-766-2546.

 Hurd/St. Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Children's Programming

Children's Programming

Afterschool Cool: Passport to Lebanon (ages 4-11)

Tuesday, October 6at 4 p.m.

Explore the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon by learning about the geography, customs and food.

Afterschool Cool: Green Thumbs (ages 4-11)
Tuesday, October 20 at 4 p.m.
Learn about nature and make something cool with the Tri-County Clemson Master Gardeners. 

P.L.A.Y: STAR Therapy Dogs (ages 11 and younger). 
Saturday, October 24 at 11 a.m.

Make a furry friend, and read a book with your new pal. Certified therapy dogs and their handlers love a good story.

Halloween Family Storytimes

Saturday, October 31at 11 a.m.

Celebrate with not-so scary Halloween stories and a craft. Costumes encouraged!

Hurd/St. Andrews Regional Library Storytimes

Time for Twos (ages 24- 36 months with adult)

Tuesdays, October 6, 13, 20, and 27 at 10:30 a.m.

Preschool (ages 3- 5 years with adult)

Tuesdays, October 6, 13, 20, and 27 at 11:30 a.m.

Babygarten (0-18 months with adult) Registration required.

Wednesday, October 7, 14, 21, and 18 at 10:30 a.m.

If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events, feel free to contact the 

Children's Department at 843-766-2546.

Hurd/ St. Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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  Mon-Thur 10-8, Fri-Sat 10-6,  Sun CLOSED