The River Forest Children’s Room now has Early Literacy iPads for you to explore. Adult patrons can check out iPads from the Chidlren’s Room desk to use with their kids in the Children’s Room. You can use the iPads to read eBooks from Media On Demand and TumbleBooks. The iPads are also loaded with apps to help children learn letters, numbers, shapes and more! Stop by the RFPL Children’s Room and check out an iPad today.
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Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson's children, but their mother is a slave, so they must keep their father's identity secret. They get special treatment--better work, better shoes, even violin lessons--but they are still slaves. Their father has promised to set them all free when each turns twenty-one. Some of them are light-skinned enough that they will be able to enter white society--and thereby turn their backs on home forever. Others won't have that option. So just what did their father mean when he wrote all men are created equal?
It's 1936 and twelve-year-old Rachel's family doesn't have two nickels to rub together. Rachel lives in the city with her Pop and her younger brother and sister. Rachel's mother died long ago and Pop needs a job. His search for work lands the family on a farm upstate, in North Lake. But times are hard here, too--the school and the library are closed. When Pop's job takes him away from home for a while, Rachel is determined that she and her siblings will do just fine on the farm without him. 
Create your own comic book character, draw your own comic strip and learn how comics work!
