Welcome to the Orion Library!

Here you will find everything you need to know about our amazing Orion Library. You will also find the latest news and a complete calendar of great events we have planned for you. 

Orion Library Used Book Sales - Upcoming Dates:

• January 27th

• February 10th and 24th
  

• March 10th and 24th

• April 14th and 28th

Mark your calendar! Great selection of titles for kids and parents.  This is your chance to support our library! 

The Authors and Illustrators Festival is coming up soon (Saturday, February 5th)! Be sure to read as many books as possible from these great authors and artists. Check out the great books we have waiting for you at the Orion Library:

PAMELA TURNER

597.8 TUR                The frog scientist

*333.95 TUR             Gorilla doctors: saving endangered great apes

*E TUR                      Hachiko: the true story of a loyal dog

*590 TUR                  A life in the wild: George Schaller's struggle to save the last great beasts

*597 TUR                  Project seahorse

*591.5 TUR               Prowling the seas: exploring the hidden world of ocean predators

JON Agee

*E AGE                  The incredible painting of Felix Clousseau

*E AGE                  Mr. Putney's quacking dog

*E AGE                  Nothing

*E AGE                  Orangutan tongs: poems to tangle your tongue

*E AGE                  The retired kid

*E AGE                  Terrific

*793.73 AGE         Jon Agee's palindromania

793.7 AGE            Smart feller fart smeller: and other spoonerisms

793.73 AGE          Elvis lives: and other anagrams

793.73 AGE          Sit on a potato pan, Otis: more palindromes

810.8 BIG              The Big book for peace

E AGE                    Milo's hat trick

E AGE                    Z goes home

E LIL                      Sitting in my box

FIC Sei                  Mean Margaret

Alma Flor ADA and Isabel F. CAMPOY

*E ADA                Celebrate Christmas and Three Kings' Day with Pablo and Carlitos

*E CAM               Celebrate Halloween and the Day of the Dead with Cristina and her blue bunny                 

*E COM               Celebrate Kwanzaa with Boots and her kittens

*E ADA                 Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Samantha and Lola

*E ADA                 Celebrate Thanksgiving Day with Beto and Gaby

*J CAM                Get up, Rick

398.8 ADA          Mama Goose: a Latino nursery treasury = un tesoro de rimas infantiles

398.8 ADA          Pio peep!: traditional Spanish nursery rhymes

398.2 CAM         Tales our abuelitas told: a Hispanic folktale collection

P 920 ADA          Caminos de Jose Marti, Frida Kahlo, Cesar Chavez

Kathryn ReisS

*PB REI                  The headless bride

*FIC REI                  Paint by magic

*FIC REI                  Pale phoenix                 

*FIC REI                  The puzzle of the paper daughter                 

*PB REI                   Rest in peace

*PB REI                   Sweet Miss Honeywell's revenge: a ghost story

*FIC REI                  The tangled web: a Julie mystery

YUYI Morales

E KRU                  Harvesting hope: the story of Cesar Chavez

E MOR                 Just a minute: a trickster tale and counting book

*E MOR                Just in case: a trickster tale and Spanish alphabet

*E MOR                Little Night

*E WHI                  Sand sister

SP E MOR           Nochecita

Elisa KleveN

E DOR                 Abuela

E KLE                  The apple doll

E KLE                  A carousel tale

E KLE                  The dancing deer and the foolish hunter

E KLE                  Ernst

E KLE                  Hooray! A PINATA!

E KLE                  The wishing ball

E DOR                 Isla

E KLE                  The lion and the little red bird

E KLE                  A monster in the house

E KLE                  The paper princess

E KLE                  The paper princess finds her way

E KLE                  The puddle pail

E KLE                  Sun bread

E JOH                  The whole green world

REF E GLA         Our big home: an earth poem

398.2 THO          Wish: wishing traditions around the world

917.94 BRO        The City by the Bay: a magical journey around San Francisco

784 ORO             De colores and other Latin-American folk songs for children

782 ORO             Fiestas: a year of Latin American songs of celebration

Maria Van LieshouT

*E VAN                  Bloom: a little book about finding love

*E HUT                  The list

*E VAN                  Peep: a little book about taking a leap

*E VAN                  Splash: a little book about bouncing back

Meet our Librarian:
Hello! My name is Cristina and I am your school librarian.​ I love to read, garden, swim, hike and cook. My dream is to see new books in the library that spark the love of reading for everyone. Check out our wish list here.

Meet our Library Committee:
Committee Chair: Jane Taylor

Library Committee Members:
Cristina Ryffel (our illustrious librarian)
Anne-France Boyle
Alessandra Sapiz
Anabel Murillo
Christine Brennan
Crystel Tuifa
Erika Pretell
Francisco Flores
Janet Greene
Heather Woods
Kathy Kennedy
Mary D'Apice
Megan Murray
Sabrina Cuddy
Stacy Goldman
Stephanie Ross
Sara Sowa (liaison to Author & Illustrator's Festival)
Tamara Kan

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
 Ernest Hemingway

(American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)