Moorcroft Leader - The Voice of the Community Since 1909, Serving Moorcroft and Pine Haven, Wyoming

Story time is every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m., geared toward preschool age children, however everyone is welcome. Kids Paint class is once a month; participants must sign up, please call the library at 307-756-3232 for details.

New Arrivals

K-3- Bears at the Beach by Shirley Parenteau, Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann, Inky the Octopus (based on the real-life aquatic escape) by Erin Guendelsberger, Lobster’s Secret by Kathleen Hollenbeck.

Juvenile- Princess Candy (The Complete Comics Collection) by Michael Dahl & Scott Nickel.

Young Adult- Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now all they have in common is Carlton High and the beginning of a very bad day. Type A Ivy lost a student council election to the class clown, and now she has to face the school, humiliated. Heartthrob Mateo is burned out – he's been working two jobs since his family’s business failed. And outsider Cal just got stood up…again. So when Cal pulls into campus late for class and runs into Ivy and Mateo, it seems like the perfect opportunity to turn a bad day around. They’ll ditch and go into the city. Just the three of them, like old times. Except they’ve barely left the parking lot before they run out of things to say...Until they spot another Carlton High student skipping school and follow him to the scene of his own murder. In one chance move, their day turns from dull to deadly. And it’s about to get worse. It turns out Ivy, Mateo and Cal still have some things in common. They all have a connection to the dead kid. And they’re all hiding something. Now they’re all wondering: could it be that their chance reconnection wasn’t by chance after all? You’ll Be the Death of Me by Karen M. McManus.

Rowdy: Wild and Mean, Sharp and Keen by Chris Mullen. Thrust to the mercy of the Mississippi river, 13-year-old Rowdy floats safely away as he watches the smoke rise from his burning farmhouse. His father, dead. His brother, dead. Both gunned down in front of him by a murderous gang of bandits. Now alone in the world, his perilous journey of survival begins, challenging and shaping him into the young man his father would want him to become. Pulled from the waters, he is given a chance by a lone river Captain and his mate. Working the trade routes between St. Louis and New Orleans, he learns to navigate safe passage but more importantly identify dangers both in and on the water. Growing up on the Mississippi river was a start for Rowdy, but a new beginning is just around the next bend. Dodge City, Kansas proves it has its own challenges but gives Rowdy the one thing he has been longing for: companionship.