2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Adults

The Resisters

An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America,. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned "Surplus," whose jobs have been stripped and whose sole duty now is to consume, living in plastic houses that talk and multi-colored houseboats at the water's edge. Neither group is happy.

Things in Jars

The sooty streets of Victorian London are crawling with nefarious characters, and Bridie Devine--female detective extraordinaire--must confront her most remarkable puzzle yet: the kidnapping of Christabel Berwick. Winding her way through a mystery as labyrinthine as the city streets, Bridie won't rest until she finds Christabel, even if it means unearthing a past that she'd rather keep buried.

When We Were Vikings

Sometimes life isn't as simple as heroes and villains.
For Zelda, a twenty-one-year-old Viking enthusiast who lives with her older brother, Gert, life is best lived with some basic rules:

1. A smile means "thank you for doing something small that I liked."
2. Fist bumps and dabs = respect.
3. Strange people are not appreciated in her home.
4. Tomatoes must go in the middle of the sandwich and not get the bread wet.
5. Sometimes the most important things don't fit on lists.

Piranesi

Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.

Food Allergies

Food Allergies: Preventing Cross Contact and Contamination

A Girl Scout Gold Award Project

Please remember that this website is for information purposes only and is not intended as medical advice, or as a substitute for the medical advice of a physician.

Food Allergies

Food Allergies: Preventing Cross Contact and Contamination

A Girl Scout Gold Award Project

Please remember that this website is for information purposes only and is not intended as medical advice, or as a substitute for the medical advice of a physician.

Paying for College

Jodi Bloom (college planning expert and founder of Cornerstone College Solutions) leads an online worshop designed to help families with children of any age figure out how to pay for college without jeapordizing retirement..

Topics covered include: