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Summer Scavenger Hunt Weeks 1 & 2 Winners!
Congratulations to Excel-Jane and and Colin J.! They are our Outdoor Scavenger Hunt Winners this week.
Year: 2021
Book Lists
20 Books for Pride Month!
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders This book traces the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings with social activist Harvey Milk and designer Gilbert Baker to its spanning of the globe and its role in today’s world. Also nominated for the 2022 Illinois Monarch Book Award. Sylvia and Marsha […]
Summer Reading
Summer Reading Starts June 1st
Summer Reading Program June 1 – July 31, 2021 Celebrate our 100th birthday this summer! Track your reading and activities to earn prizes in Beanstack or on a paper log. Collect points for completing activities, reading 4 books or reading for 1 hour. With each point you earn a ticket to enter in our prize basket drawings. Collect 25 points […]
Book Lists
May is Mental Health Month
Picture Books Right Now I Am Fine by Daniela Owen This book is a mindfully written self-help guide to aid children in dealing with stress and anxiety, by uncovering their emotions and following a simple calming routine. Star Wars: Search Your Feelings by Calliope Glass & Caitlyn Kennedy Happy, hopeful, lonely, sad, excited , anxious, guilty, mad. The […]
Book Lists
The Last Week of April is National Princess Week!
Picture Books The Princess in Black by Shannon Hale Who says princesses don’t wear black? When trouble raises its blue monster head, Princess Magnolia ditches her flouncy dresses and becomes the Princess in Black! Princess Grace by Mary Hoffman Grace wants to participate in her community festival’s princess float, but first she must decide what sort of a princess she wants to be–from an African princess in kente cloth robes to a floaty pink […]
CoVid-19 Resources
Thank You Notes to Local Nurses: Digital File
Here is the link to the digital Thank You Note file. Feel free to print it out at home and drop your note off at the Harnish Library. We will have a box in the Lobby just for Thank You Notes. If you are more of an in-person Library user, we have Thank You Note Kits available at the Youth […]
Book Lists
April is National Poetry Month
National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry When words in verse are paired with the awesomeness of nature, something magical happens. Beloved former U.S. Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis curates an exuberant poetic celebration of the natural world in this stellar collection of nature poems. From trickling streams to deafening thunderstorms to soaring mountains, discover majestic photography perfectly paired with contemporary (such as Billy Collins), classics (such as Robert Frost), and […]
Book Lists
35 Books For National Library Week
The Not So Quiet Library by Zachariah Ohora Oskar and and his bear Theodore must save the day when an angry monster barges into the library … and thinks it’s an all-you-can-eat buffet! Miss Moore Thought Otherwise by Jan Pinborough Once upon a time, American children couldn’t borrow library books. Reading wasn’t all that important for children, many thought. Luckily Miss Anne Carroll […]
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40 Books for #WorldAutismAwarenessDay
Picture Books All My Stripes by Shaina Rudolph Zane rushes home to tell his mother about problems he faced during his school day, and she reminds him that while others may only see his “autism stripe, ” he has stripes for honesty, caring, and much more. The Girl Who Thought in Pictures by Julia Finley Mosca Describes the […]
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30 Books for Arab American Heritage Month
A Kid’s Guide to Arab American History by Yvonne Wakim Dennis Each chapter focuses on a different group of Arab Americans including those of Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian, Jordanian, Egyptian, Iraqi, and Yemeni descent and features more than 50 fun activities that highlight their distinct arts, games, clothing, and food. Kids will love dancing the dabke, constructing a derbekke drum, playing […]