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Read After Dark: Winter Reading for All Ages 2025

Winter is the perfect time to cozy up in your blanket fort and strengthen good reading habits! We're reading together and earning prizes. How to participate Winter Reading programs run from December 15, 2025–January 31, 2026. Track your reading and earn prizes in one of two ways: On o...

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TREEmendous Library Card Campaign: Made in the SHADE

Season 1 was Root. Season 2 was Log On. Season 3 was Branch Out. Season 4 was Turn Over a New Leaf. Season 5 is Made in the Shade. Having a library card is part of a good life. That’s why the arboreal theme for our fifth installment of “5 Seasons of Library Card Love & Prize Drawings” is MADE IN ...

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Get More From Your Library With These Tips!

Tip #1: New Books Usually Available to Borrow on their Publishing Release Date You may have assumed that the fastest way to get a new book was to buy it, but libraries receive and process new books ahead of time to have them ready to circulate on their official release date. That means that you c...

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Listen with Playaways

The Library has a great selection of audiobooks for your listening pleasure. We have the traditional audiobooks on CDs, but we also have another way to listen to books that you may not know about: Playaways! Playaways are small devices with pre-loaded audiobooks that you can plug your headphones int...

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TREEmendous Library Card Campaign: ROOT

Season 1 of 5: ROOT We don't need to go out on a limb to say that library cards are fantastic. Like sunshine brightening a forest, library cards enrich and empower the Lake Forest community with resources to facilitate literacy, resilience, and growth. That's why we're inviting you to celebrate ...

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(Past Program) Summer Reading: Art is All Around Us 2024

June 1–July 31, 2024 Summer Reading is a great way to build and reward reading habits. Join us for good books and fabulous prizes! All formats count: You can read printed books, read aloud to youngsters, and listen to audiobooks. All ages count: You can participate from birth onward. We...

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Lit Lorie Loves – Seek and Find Picture Books

What a wonderful way to spend quality time with your child or grandchild is to engage in classic and modern picture books often known as Hide and Seek or I Spy. These picture books are also great to occupy your children during long car or airplane trips.

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Lit Lorie Loves – 1000 Books Before Kindergarten

From birth to age 5, your child is experiencing a crucial time of growth and development. Reading with them every day helps prepare them for future success as readers and life‑long learners. Not to mention you will be spending quality time together while promoting a love of reading. Along the way, the Children’s Library staff are here to support you and cheer you on. Stop by the Children’s Library circulation desk for more information on how to enroll your child. Built into the program are book recommendations, here is a small selection from the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten book lists:

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Spooky Nonfiction for Grades 3 and Up

Stop by the Children's Library to check out these spooky reads!   Boo! Stories to Make You Jump compiled by Laura Cecil, illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark  A collection of scary stories and poems, with an emphasis on monsters, ghosts, and witches.  Creepy and True...

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