The days are getting longer, the temps are getting higher, and little green buds are starting to appear. Spring is coming! Celebrate the change of the season with your tiny humans by reading some great spring stories together. Youth Services staff has put together a list of 35 fun fiction and nonfiction titles for you to enjoy. Spring Picture Books […]
March is Women’s History Month, and the Library has some suggestions of great reads to help you celebrate! The past few years have seen a slew of excellent biographies about fascinating and inspiring women. Youth Services staff put together two lists of books about women from diverse backgrounds. There’s something for everyone here! Women’s History Month Picture Books Women’s History […]
The Doctor With Eyes for Eyes by Julia Finley Mosca Icebreaker by Rose Viña Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford Lifting As We Climb by Evette Dionne Ona Judge Outwits the Washingtons by Gwendolyn Hooks and Simone Agoussoye Preaching to the Chickens by Jabari Asim Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton […]
If you would like a book on this list, or any book in the library at all, please fill out a Materials Request Form here. Feel free to send us a list of exact titles or a more ambiguous request such as 15 picture books for my 5 year old. Since no one has been in to browse, our shelves […]
If you would like a book on this list, or any book in the library at all, please fill out a Materials Request Form here. Feel free to send us a list of exact titles or a more ambiguous request such as 15 picture books for my 5 year old. Since no one has been in to browse, our shelves […]
Newbery Award When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller [eBook here] Newbery Honors All Thirteen: The Incredible Rescue of the Thai Boys Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat [eBook here] BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by Michele Wood [eBook here] Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley [eBook here] We Dream of Space by […]
Here are some small reads about noble giants who have shaped our world to celebrate Nobel Prize Day. Call 847-458-6060 x135 to place a hold on one to have in time for bedtime stories tonight. Desmond and the Very Mean Word While riding his new bicycle Desmond is hurt by the mean word yelled at him by a group of […]
Your Librarians have been busy ordering new books this year, just like any other. Since we have been closed, our shelves are bursting with books that would typically be checked out! In honor of Read a New Book Month, here is a taste of some of our new arrivals! Picture Books A Journey Toward Hope by Victor Hinojosa & Coert […]
Didn’t catch our Women’s Suffrage Storytime yesterday? Well here it is….and here is an accompanying booklist! Suffrage Votes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of an almost eighty-year fight in which some of […]
Elementary / Middle Grade Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott This charming classic novel from 1875 by Louisa May Alcott (the author of Little Women) follows the story of the recently orphaned Rose Campbell as she struggles to cope with her new life as part of a large family, which consists of seven boy cousins and numerous aunts and uncles. […]
