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At the Fifth Annual Muskingum County Reading Festival, we want to foster
a love of books and literacy in the youngest members of our community. To
do this, we created special Storytimes presented by our Youth Literacy
Specialist, Nick Eling, or as he is better known as, Mr. Nick! Check out the
times below and the stories that will be read, then see who is coming to

visit us after Storytime! And don’t forget we are encouraging our guests,
young and old, to dress up as their favorite literary character!

Characters

11:00-11:30 AM
Elephant & Piggie

12:00-12:30 PM

Bluey

Roaming Characters

Hoobert

BARD the Bunny

Szilvia Jennings Precarious Yates

Sophie Moon and the The Captives
Honeybees The Heart of the Caveat Whale Book 1
Hometown: Blue Rock, OH
Hometown: Zanesville, OH Genre: YA Fantasy
Genre: Middle Grade
A young girl overcomes her fears and When the caveat whale is gone, the
troubles by the help of her grandfa- time of the end has come, but the
ther and his honey bees during the rise of Shunda will stem the tide.”
passing seasons of a whole year. Mermen are capturing aquavians
and enslaving them to fight land
battles in the MerKing’s quest for
world domination. The captives will
only be free when Shunda loses his
Sophie Moon and fears about who he is.
the Boat Qoshonni figures she has become

Genre: Middle Grade too violent and will never come
What if a young girl learned to nav- back from the brink that the MerK-
igate the turbulent waters of mid- ing has pushed her to.
dle school bullying by mastering
the calm waters of a lake with her Mookori knows his father loves him
grandfather’s help? best, but this has no consolation
as war invades the shores of his fa-
ther’s kingdom.

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