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Thank You Notes to Local Nurses: Digital File

April 12, 2021
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 […]
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April is National Poetry Month

April 8, 2021
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 […]
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35 Books For National Library Week

April 5, 2021
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

April 2, 2021
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

April 1, 2021
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 […]
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30 eBooks for Spring Break

March 29, 2021
Animals in Spring by M.J. York Readers are introduced to different animals in spring, which are waking up, migrating, or being born. Plants in Spring by M.J. York Readers are introduced to the concepts of weather, how it changes in spring, and what its changes mean for growing plants. Abracadabra, It’s Spring! by Anne Sibley O’Brien & Susan Gal Winter […]
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Youth Asian Stories…On hoopla Now!

March 19, 2021
eBooks The Most Beautiful Thing by Kao Kalia Yang Drawn from author Kao Kalia Yang’s childhood experiences as a Hmong refugee, this moving picture book portrays a family with a great deal of love and little money. Weaving together Kalia’s story with that of her beloved grandmother, the book moves from the jungles of Laos to the family’s early years […]
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Celebrate Pi Day with NASA!

March 11, 2021
When: Friday, March 5 – Tuesday, March 16 Where: Online Target Audience: K-12 students and educators, parents, museums, science centers and planetariums Overview: NASA is joining schools, students and science centers across the U.S. to celebrate one of the most well known and beloved numbers: pi. Used throughout the STEM world – especially for space exploration! – pi is the […]
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20 Biographies for Women’s History Month

March 9, 2021
Becoming RBG by Debbie Levy Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a modern feminist icon–a leader in the fight for equal treatment of girls and women in society and the workplace. She blazed trails to the peaks of the male-centric worlds of education and law, where women had rarely risen before. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has often said that true […]