Algonquin Library Youth Services

Pumpkins at the Library!

October 24, 2026

Attention all princesses and pirates, bats and ghouls! Grab your paintbrushes and get in on the spooky competition! The library is hosting The Great Pumpkin Painting Contest running through October 31. Come to the library this weekend to pick up a free pumpkin to decorate and return by Monday, October 26. Limit of one pumpkin per child while supplies last. […]

Patch Club Is Back!

October 7, 2026

With Summer Reading long gone and Winter Reading still months away, Patch Club can be a great way to stay motivated to keep reading during the school year! Our popular reading program for children to earn patches by reading books is open to school-aged children or those who have completed or aged out of our 1,001 Books Before Kindergarten program. […]

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’70s inspired crafts during September

August 30, 2026

Our Eastgate Branch opened in 1976, and as it celebrates 50 years of serving the community, youth services is throwing it back to the ’70s with crafts that are just as groovy this month. During the drop-in MakerTime program from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, children in grades K-8 can stop by the Creation Center with their caregiver to turn […]

No plans? Try a drop-in program!

July 17, 2026

With our busy summer calendars, a lot of our youth programs have filled up quickly! But did you know we also offer programs that do not require registration and are open to everybody? Any program in our newsletter, on our calendar, or on our website that has NR next to it – noted in blue in our print publications – […]

Programs

Plant a Seed, Read: We’re Halfway There!

July 3, 2026

It’s hard to believe we are already halfway through our 2026 Summer Reading Program! We currently have 2268 children aged birth-8th grade signed up, and 388 kiddos have already completed the program. WOW! Our staff gets so excited every time we get to hand out a prize. We love seeing your smiles and hearing all about the great books you’ve […]

Prevent Summer Slide with Education Databases!

June 16, 2026

You may have heard about the “summer slide”–kids forgetting or losing some academic skills over the summer break. While reading every day (and earning prizes to do so, through the Summer Reading Program!) is a great way to combat summer slide, AAPLD has other resources for our cardholders to take advantage of as well. The Library subscribes to multiple databases […]

Summer Reading

Plant a Seed and READ at AAPLD!

June 10, 2026

We are ten days into Summer Reading here at the Library, and it has been so much fun seeing all of the families coming in to register! We currently have almost 1900 children aged birth-8th grade signed up, and 14 kiddos have already completed the program. Our Summer Reading program is open to everyone, even cardholders from other libraries or […]

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Sneak Peek: Summer Reading 2026!

April 22, 2026

Every year the Youth Services Librarians play a little game: when will the first question about Summer Reading come in? This year? JANUARY! A new record! We know you are all so excited to get your reading done this summer, but we do have to wait until actual summer to kick things off. However, we want to give you a […]

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Book Battle is back!

March 4, 2026

Do you like the Pigeon or the Pout Pout Fish? Bad Kitty or Mr. Wolf from the Bad Guys? In this year’s special Character Edition of the 2026 Book Battle, you can visit either the Harnish or the Eastgate library to vote for your favorites as they battle to be named the best. During week one, you will have 16 […]