We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, a multitype library system serving all types of libraries.

This season we are suggesting books you might enjoy for our Goodreads group: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a prompt connected to each state park, and you find a book to fulfill the challenge. You can use one of our suggestions, and you should feel free to read any book!

Beaver Creek Valley State Park was established in 1937. There are a lot of activities to do in this park, including Guided audio tour of the Beaver Creek Trail.

Celebrate the name of this park, and read a book about a small mammal, preferably a beaver OR about a dam.

We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all – including a nice book – Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

• The Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare
• Colossus: The Turbulent, Thrilling Saga of the Building of Hoover Dam, by Michael Hiltzik
• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, by Kimberly Willis Holt
• A Dagger Before Me (A Dorothy Martin Mystery, Book 21 of 21), by Jeanne M. Dams
• The Dam Keeper (Dam Keeper #1), by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
• The Busy Beaver (Life in the Wild), by Nicholas Oldland

Thanks for joining us! We’ll be back next week with a look at the next park and the next book prompt!