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Collection Connection: Audiobooks for Summer Listening

Here's a list of children's audiobooks in different formats. Great for family car trips, traveling, and just relaxing.

KATHY'S KORNER - JUNE NEW FICTION FOR GRADES 3-8

A clickable list of recent chapter books and graphic novels for elementary and middle school readers.

Collection Connection: Space, the Final Frontier

As we welcome former astronaut James Lovell to the library this June, let's look up and out to the stars. Below are some children's chapter books with junior astronauts both real and imagined, space flight and interplanetary colonization. Sci Fi is really flying high!

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Say Yes to Picture Books!

Michelle's Real Reads

Younger Nonfiction The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and our National Parks by Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein Caldecott medalist Mordicai Gerstein captures the majestic redwoods of Yosemite in this little- k...

Read off the beaten path with ten stories of trail-paving in business

Join us this summer in “reading off the beaten path”. Making the jump into entrepreneurship and life in business can be full of challenges and potholes and is riddled with risk. Follow successful high-profile businesspeople in the ten books below as they cross uncharted territory and leave behind paths that others can follow.

Kathy's Korner - May New Fiction for Grades 3-8

A clickable list of recent chapter books and graphic novels for elementary and middle school readers.

Lit Lorie Loves - Interactive Picture Books

Enjoy these playacting picture books that will both mentally and physically challenge your children by requiring them to participate in the story.

Collection Connection Short Stories

A clickable list of juvenile short stories collections.

Michelle's Real Reads: Children's Nonfiction Book Recommendations

Stop by the Children's Library to check out some of these new picture book biographies! Dorothy the Brave by Meghan P. Browne, illustrated by Brooke Smart Dorothy Lucas yearned to discover all that she was capable of. After the devastating news of Pearl Harbor, her brothers joi...

Kathy's Korner - April New Fiction for Grades 3-8

A clickable list of recent chapter books and graphic novels for elementary and middle school readers.

Lit Lorie Loves - Poetry In Picture Books

April is National Poetry Month. What a marvelous time to celebrate poetry in picture books!

Novels in Verse for Youth

April is National Poetry Month. One form of poetry is a novel in verse. These carefully crafted stories are full of heartfelt emotion best expressed through verse.

Collection Connection: DIY Book Club for Kids

Whether you are looking for a light read or something more serious, the Children's Library has a large assortment of sets of titles for grades 2-6, along with discussion questions and other activities.

Michelle's Real Reads: Children's Nonfiction Book Recommendations

Celebrate National Poetry Month by checking out some of these great books! EJ Nonfiction Construction People, poems selected by Lee Nebbet Hopkins, illustrated by Ellen Shi Fourteen poems compiled by award-winning poet and anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins introduce readers to the...