Our Summer Reading Club is quickly coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to stop. Over the past several weeks, our dinosaur-themed books have been flying off the shelves, and we couldn’t be happier to know that so many kids in...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Here is a booklist featuring a variety of books for children about mental health and coping tools! Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available from another library through the Evergreen system. Nonfiction Mindfulness and Meditation: Handling Life with a Calm...
Summary (from Evergreen): Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the most notorious and creative gamemaker in the world, just...
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill was the winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal. It’s not hard to see why. This is a story with complex themes, but presented in a way that is understandable for middle grade readers. Two of the...
Pick a night of the week for some “book club” fun! Your family book club doesn’t have to look like a traditional book club. Every evening, you can sit down as a family and spend time reading a book together. You can pass the book...
When a child is learning to read, an essential first step is connecting letters to their sounds. Standard alphabet books typically feature one letter per page with a variety of things that start with that letter. Those are great for introducing those sounds and building...
Reading to your child can be a wonderful indoor activity on these cold winter days. Here are some winter weather picture books to enjoy while staying cozy at home! There was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colandro “A cumulative tale in which a...
Happy New Year! As we head into the New Year many of us make resolutions or goals to try new things. Here are books for young readers about trying new things, making goals, and new beginnings! Non-fiction The Wolves Return: A New Beginning for Yellowstone National Park...
Have you ever been curious about which books get checked out the most at the library? As the year comes to a close, we took a look at the highest-circulating items in the Children’s Room. Here are the top titles in each category for 2025: Children’s...
What’s a good story without a good villain? Want to revisit some of your old favorites? Experience a new take on the characters that walk on the darker side of the story with these wickedly good reads available in Teen Central. Kill The Beast by Serena Valentino It...
