Manchester City Library

To celebrate all our successful Summer Reading Program readers the Library brings you The Majestic Theater and The Return of the Glass Slipper by Mary Donnelly & George L.O.Strid.

On Prince Albert’s 19th birthday, his parents, King Rupert and Queen Philomena, have determined that the Prince should find a suitable bride. So, the King invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom to a fancy ball, where his son will be able to choose his future wife. Cinderella dreams of going to the ball, but those dreams are shattered when her stepsisters, Pandora and Mergatroid, point out that she hasn’t a suitable dress to wear to the ball and has too many chores to do around the house. To her rescue, Harmonia, her Fairy Godmother arrives and waves her magic wand. Then there’s the pumpkin carriage, the royal ball, the stroke of midnight, the glass slipper, and the rest, as they say, is fairy tale history.

Discover the magic and wonder of wishes come true in this fairytale favorite when Cinderella meets her Prince Charming! For more information, please contact the Children’s Room via email or at 624-6550 ext. 314.

Hit stage musical given the movie treatment. A skinny old gentleman with wispy white hair dreams the impossible dream. He is Don Quixote de La Mancha, the knight errant. Based on Cervantes’ work finished in 1615. Academy Award Nominations: Best Song Score.

For more information, please contact Steve via email or at 624-6550 ext. 323. (PG)

Because of the magically surreal and potentially lethal aspects of Jumanji, a board game that’s intrigued its players for hundreds of years, few people want to play a second time. For you see, unless you complete the game, Jumanji takes over your world. Young Alan Parris discoverd the ornate Jumanji board in 1969, when he was just twelve. When he sits down to play it for the first time with his reluctant friend Sarah, he’s transported into the jungle realm of Jumanji, disappearing before Sarah’s startled eyes. Because Sarah is too frightened to finish the game, Alan remains trapped in the rainforests of Jumanji for 26 years until two new children, Judy and Peter, sit down to play the game in the attic of Alan’s childhood home. If Alan, Judy and Peter can find the now adult Sarah, they have a chance to finish the game–or risk their hometown being taken over by the exotic denizens of the seemingly unstoppable force called Jumanji… forever.

For more information, please contact Steve via email or 624-6550 ext. 323. (PG)

The daughter of a well-to-do white family comes home from a vacation to announce her intentions of marrying a well-to-do black physician. The prospective in-laws must come to terms with the implications.

For more information, please contact Steve via email or phone 624-6550 ext. 323.(NR)

For 14-year old Walter, his great uncle’s€™ farm in rural Texas is the last place on earth he wants to spend the summer. Dumped off by his mother, Mae, in the middle of nowhere with two crazy old men and the promise that she’€™ll come back for him, Walter doesn’t know what to believe in. Eccentric and gruff, Hub and Garth McCaan are rumored to have been bank robbers, mafia hit men and/or war criminals in their younger days. The truth is elusive, although they do seem to have an endless supply of cash. But Walter begins to see a new side to his great uncles when he stumbles on an old photograph of a beautiful woman hidden away in a trunk and asks Garth who she is.

For more information, please contact Steve via email or phone at 624-6550 ext.(PG)