Spark Your Creativity!

Every Wednesday we offer you a special photo taken by our CEO Janet Beasley to help spark your creativity. Whether you're an author, a painter, a musician, or clay sculpture artist we think you'll find her photos very inspiring!

What Happens in Vegas...

Happy creating!

As Proud Supporters of the Pickford Community Library....

Pickford Community Library's library manager: Ann Marie Smith

JLB Creatives is a proud supporter of the Pickford Community Library, Pickford, Michigan. Library manager, Ann Marie Smith, is always finding fun, educational, and intriguing ways to pull the community together. Her latest venture is nothing shy of amazing. Her next community involvement project stems from Scholastic. 

Straight from the Pickford Community Library...

Visit Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge
Click here

...2016 SCHOLASTIC SUMMER READING CHALLENGE

"Be a Reading Super Hero - Get in the Game: Read!" Help us set a World Record for Reading - you can start at any time!

May 9 - September 9, 2016 Preschool through Grade 12

The Pickford Community Library is partnering with Pickford Public Schools

and area homeschoolers to offer the 2016 Scholastic Reading Challenge for

grades pre-K thru 12. There will be fun prizes awarded at the library

throughout the summer along with online awards. You can start any time

after May 9, and the more you read, the more you earn! We had a great

time with the challenge last summer and we hope you and your family will

participate this year. Our community goal is to read 250,000 minutes.

Be sure to stop by the library to sign up -- or request forms by email at

amsmith@uproc.lib.mi.us. Parents of Pickford Public Schools pre-K thru 5

students should have already received forms in the Thursday folders on May

5. Additional forms for all interested students (including grades 6-12)

are available through Cheri Bush in the Pickford Elementary School office.

For more information, contact Pickford Community Library Manager Ann Marie

Smith at 906-647-1288 or amsmith@uproc.lib.mi.us. The Pickford Community

Library is located at 230 East Main Street in downtown Pickford. We hope

to see you there!

If you're not in the Pickford, Michigan area, but are still interested in the Summer Reading Challenge, visit the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge page to see what's going on in your area. Click here

CONGRATS to the Pickford Community Library's Young Writers Workshop!

Come one come all to the Young Writers Workshop Book Release Soiree`! 

 

May 12, 2016 you'll want to stop by the Pickford Community Library in person, or online, to celebrate with the talented Young Writers of the Pickford Community Library in Pickford Michigan. If you are going to join in online, we encourage you to leave an encouraging comment for the aspiring writers the day of on the Pickford Community Library FB page. 

These fabulous kids have been taking the Journey to Publication since October 2015, and have completed their journey. That means their short stories and novellas are ready to be released. 

Their big day is May 12, 2016 in more ways than one.

That's also when their published works will be available to download for FREE from 

JLB Creatives Publishing on Smashwords.com 

or simply search by title and author. 

2015-2016 

PICKFORD COMMUNITY LIBRARY'S 

YOUNG WRITERS WORKSHOP
NOVELLAS = Advanced Enthusiasts of Journey to Publication 

Noah Kamper: 
TRIFORCE WARRIORS 
(fan fiction based on
"Legend of Zelda")

Amy Lehigh:  BOELIK (fantasy)

Honnah Patnode:
 PARALLEL INFINITIES (paranormal romance)

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2015-2016 PICKFORD COMMUNITY LIBRARY'S 

YOUNG WRITERS WORKSHOP
ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES & POETRY = Novice Enthusiasts of Journey to Publication

Sydney Johnson: 
THE SHINE OF A STAR 
(YA romance)

Ashton McConnell: 
STUCK ON REPLAY 
(paranormal)

Selah Preston:  

THING IS... 

(poem)

Emily Roe:  
THE HUNTRESS
(YA sports)

Grace S. Snyder: 
WIND, BLOOD, AND STARS 
(fantasy)