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Get ready to create your own portal adventure! Pick up a Story Map and design your portal neighborhood, then join author Fran Wilde to share your maps and marvel at maps created by others. Grs. 3-8
If you enjoy fantasy stories, you know that maps are sometimes included inside the book. Now, it is your turn to draw your own story map!
If you entered a portal to another place, what would that world look like? Would it look like your neighborhood except with unicorns, would it look like another planet, or would it look like something strange and new? Now is your chance to imagine where your portal would take you! Pick up a Story Map and design your new portal neighborhood, then join author Fran Wilde to share your maps and marvel at maps created by others. For grades 3-8.
If you are going on a portal adventure, you need a portal kit! Starting June 7th, pick up your portal kit at the Northwest Akron Branch or Main Library Drive-up Window. Portal kits include a blank story map for you to design your portal world, snacks (because portal travel makes you hungry), and other surprises!
Check out these middle-grade Fantasy Books by Fran Wilde:
Fran Wilde is the award-winning author of Riverland, which won the 2020 Andre Norton Nebula Award, and The Bone Universe trilogy, which won the Andre Norton Award and the Compton Crook Award. She also writes for publications, including the Washington Post and Tor.com. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, daughter, dog, and a LOUD parakeet.
The Ship of Stolen Words by Fran Wilde
A group of goblins steal a boy’s ability to apologize in this lively middle-grade fantasy from Nebula Award-winning author Fran Wilde
Full of both adventure and heart, Riverland is a story about the bond between two sisters and how they must make their own magic to protect each other and save the ones they love.
This program will be presented on Zoom.
You will receive an e-mail with the participation weblink one day before the program. Please contact the Library if you are unable to attend.
If you do not have an e-mail address, please contact Main Library at 330.643.9186 to learn how to participate by phone.
A webcam and microphone may be necessary to participate fully in this interactive event. If you have one or neither of these, your participation may be limited.
AGE GROUP: | Tween | School Age (Grades 3-5) |
EVENT TYPE: | Virtual Program | Books & Writing |
Drive-up Window closes fifteen minutes before the building closes for the day.
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