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#BookFaceFriday “Tuck Everlasting” by Natalie Babbitt

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Aimee Owen

This #BookFace could go on and on forever!

Can’t stop, won’t stop with this week’s #BookFaceFriday! First published in 1975, “Tuck Everlasting” by Natalie Babbitt (Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2007) was an early Golden Sower nominee and is still a mainstay in classrooms across the country.

We have 11 copies for your reading group to borrow in our Book Club Kit collection, and you can also find it in audiobook format in the Nebraska OverDrive Libraries. It’s only one of many book club kits school and public libraries can borrow for their school-aged reading groups. You can browse our collection by genre, grade level, or keyword search; use the keywords “Golden Sower” to find all the titles we have that have won or been nominated for the award. Best of all, loan periods are flexible to meet your group’s needs!

“Rarely does one find a book with such prose. Flawless in both style and structure, it is rich in imagery and punctuated with light fillips of humor. The author manipulates her plot deftly, dealing with six main characters brought together because of a spring whose waters can bestow everlasting life. . . . Underlying the drama is the dilemma of the age-old desire for perpetual youth”

— The Horn Book Magazine

Book Club Kits Rules for Use

  1. These kits can be checked out by the librarians of Nebraska libraries and media centers.
  2. Circulation times are flexible and will be based upon availability. There is no standard check-out time for book club kits.
  3. Please search the collection to select items you wish to borrow and use the REQUEST THIS KIT icon to borrow items.
  4. Contact the Information Desk at the Library Commission if you have any questions: by phone: 800/307-2665, or by email: Information Services Team

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#BookFaceFriday – “The Unbearable Lightness Of Being” by Milan Kundera

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Aimee Owen

Hold on to your hats, it’s #BookFaceFriday!

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera (Harper & Row, 1984) is one of many classic titles your book club can reserve from our collection! You can browse our classics by using the “Search by Genre” drop-down list in our book club kit search options: http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ref/bookclub/.

“Kundera is a virtuoso . . . A work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness.”– Elizabeth Hardwick, (Vanity Fair)

This week’s #BookFace model is Allana Novotny, our Technology & Access Services Librarian!

Love this #BookFace & reading? Check out our past #BookFaceFriday photos on the Nebraska Library Commission’s Facebook page!

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