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WINTER QUARTER 2021 QL Friends Scholarship
WINTER QUARTER 2021 QL Safe at Home Class
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2022 Friends Scholarship applications are now available
Each spring, the Friends award $2,000 scholarships to up to three graduating high school seniors who demonstrate a passion for reading. Students from Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, and Knollwood are eligible to apply. The Friends of Lake Forest Library inaugurated this scholarship in 2003 to recognize stu...
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Blind Date with a Book 2022
You Can't Judge these Books by their Covers! As Valentine's Day approaches, come in and check out a Blind Date book or audiobook. They’re wrapped up tight with the briefest of blurbs on the outside and a special bookmark on the inside. Complete the bookmark and submit it for a chance to win a gif...
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New YA Books
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If This Gets Out -
You've Reached Sam -
Lore Olympus: Volume One -
Gilded -
These Unlucky Stars -
Our Last Echoes -
The Ones We're Meant to Find -
Luck of the Titanic -
Firekeeper's Daughter -
Realm Breaker -
The Shadow War -
Game Changer -
Tales of the Peculiar -
Amelia Unabridged -
The Project -
Love & Olives -
The Cousins -
Game Changer
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Winterkeep -
Lore -
The Enigma Game -
Skyhunter -
These Violent Delights -
A Deadly Education -
Orbiting Jupiter -
Renegades -
The Immortalists -
Midnight Sun -
Rebel Spy -
I Kissed Alice -
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel) -
You Should See Me in a Crown -
Thank You for Coming to My TED Talk -
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin -
Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers -
I'll Be the One -
Girl, Serpent, Thorn -
Goddess in the Machine -
Girl, Unframed -
Once & Future -
American Royals -
Serious Moonlight -
My Hero Academia -
XL -
The Darkest Minds -
Dear Ally -
The Fountains of Silence -
Wicked Saints -
Angel Mage -
Voices -
A Treason of Thorns -
Other Words for Smoke -
Verify -
You'd Be Mine -
Let's Call It a Doomsday -
Road Tripped -
Wayward Son -
Descendant of the Crane -
Pet -
The Devouring Gray -
Monstress -
Shadow and Bone -
Sadie -
Dorothy Must Die -
Shout -
Matched -
Lovely War -
The Running Dream
Upcoming Events
Register for Winter Reading for all ages
Vote for 2021's Best Children's Book to receive our Mock Newbery Medal
Adults Blind Date with a Book
A Virtual Tour of Moscow
Youth & Teens Blind Date with a Book
Dungeons & Dragons: Waterdeep Adventures (Virtual)
Young Adult Advisory Board (Hybrid)
Safe@Home Class for Grades 4–6 (Virtual)
Minecraft Monday (Virtual)
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Your teen librarian loves planning programs and building collections especially for you. Don't hesitate to contact us if you have ideas, and we hope to see you on the Young Adult Advisory Board!
Your librarian can:
- Provide resources to help with homework
- Answer your questions and offer reading recommendations
- Get you a desired book or movie, even if we don't currently have it
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Explore the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions, including photographs, museum objects, government documents, and so much more!
Allows for simultaneous searching of any combination of EBSCO databases including: BIR Entertainment, Book Index with Reviews, Business Source Elite, Health Source (Academic and Consumer editions), Masterfile Premier, Regional Business News, Fiction Core Collection, and AHFS Consumer Medication Information.
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Full text and abstracts of magazine and journal articles, as well as reference books and primary source documents.
Language learning for children. Courses available in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
Access millions of records from over 2,000 organizations, including books, articles, audio, video, and images.
TumbleBooks are easy to use eBooks for grades K–6. Read as many books you want, when you want, and on any device with no checkouts, holds, or bulky downloads.
Live one-on-one online tutor help for K–12 students in math, science, English, social studies and writing available daily from 2:00–11:00 pm. Adults can receive one-on-one career help, GED prep, and citizenship test prep.
Kids, Student, Advanced, Timelines and Discover versions of World Book Encyclopedias. French and Spanish versions available.