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Irving Public Library is a proud recipient of a 2009 Texas Book Festival Grant. Awarded in April 2009, the grant was used to expand the juvenile collection with materials of interest to boys in elementary and middle school grades.

Purchased titles included fiction, graphic novels and nonfiction selections. The selected titles were added to the Juvenile Collection of the Central Library.

Fiction titles purchased include:
  • Attack of the Tyrannosaurus by Rex Stone
  • Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) by Lisa yee
  • Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
  • The Fear Place by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  • The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night by R. L. Stine
  • How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long
  • Julian Rodriguez Episode One, Trash Crisis on Earth by Alexander Stadler
  • Nightmare Hour: Time for Terror by R. L. Stine
  • Prince of Underwhere by Bruce Hale
  • Runaway Retriever by T. T. Sutherland
  • The Soccer Machine by David Bedford
  • Tentacles by Roland Smith
  • Too Scared to Sleep by Todd Strasser
  • Treasure Fever! by Andy Griffiths
  • Zoobreak by Gordon Korman


    • Graphic Novel titles purchased include:
  • Bakugan Battle Brawlers1: The Battle Begins by Elizabeth Hurchalla
  • Bionicle 1: Rise of the Toa Nuva by Greg Farshtey
  • Naruto 1: The Tests of the Ninja by Masashi Kishimoto


    • Nonfiction titles purchased include:
  • Amazing Rubber Band Cars: Easy-to-Build Wind-Up Racers, Models, and Toys by Mike Rigsby
  • Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices by William Gurstelle
  • Demon Bugs: VW Customs and Cruisers by Stephan Szantei
  • Doc Fizzix Mousetrap Racers: The Complete Builder's Manual by Alden J. Balmer
  • Gotcha!: 18 Amazing Ways to Freak Out Your Friends by David Acer
  • Million-Dollar Muscle Cars: The Rarest and Most Collectible Cars of the Performance Era by Colin Comer
  • Paper Airplanes With Dollar Bills by Duy Nguyen
  • Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Encyclopedia of the Bizarre: Amazing, Strange, Inexplicable, Weird and All True! by Julie Mooney
  • Slam Dunk! Science Projects with Basketball by Robert Gardner
  • Stomp Rockets, Catapults, and Kaleidoscopes: 30+ Amazing Science Projects You Can Build for Less Than $1 by Curt Gabrielson
  • The Unofficial Lego Builder's Guide by Allan Bedford
  • Weird Science: 40 Strange-Acting, Bizarre-Looking, and Barely Believable Activities for Kids by Jim Wiese


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    Guys Read Book Club
    The Guys Read Book Club is hosted monthly at Lamar Middle School. Held in the school's library, the club is a partnership between Irving Public Library, the Lamar Middle School Librarian and Lamar Middle School reading teachers.

    Guys Read began in Fall 2008 as an after school outreach for sixth grade boys. Each month, a title is selected for the boys to read and discuss. Throughout the year, the boys are also given free books and comics to take home, as encouragement to continue reading for enjoyment.

    To learn more about Guys Read, please contact Deborah F. Vaden, Library Services Manager for Irving Public Library.
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