Our friends at Wildlife Encounters Ecology and Wellness Center will return this year with a selection of live animals in the Library Courtyard to educate and delight you! Wildlife Encounters’ live-animal outreach programs are educational, interactive, and fun!
Their educator will lead the group on an “imaginary safari around the world!” Meet animals whose ancestors lived in a variety of habitats and places on Earth, while discovering their amazing adaptations,… Read more ADVENTURES with Wildlife Encounters (All Ages): Wednesday, 6/26/24 at 6 PM
Our friends at Wildlife Encounters Ecology and Wellness Center will return this year with a selection of live animals in the Library Courtyard to educate and delight you! Wildlife Encounters’ live-animal outreach programs are educational, interactive, and fun!
Their educator will lead the group on an “imaginary safari around the world!” Meet animals whose ancestors lived in a variety of habitats and places on Earth, while discovering their amazing adaptations,… Read more 
Teens and tweens, THIS MEANS WAR! (FRIENDLY war.)
T/weens (entering grade 5 in the fall and up) are welcome to participate. Please bake your own cupcakes in advance, and practice your decorating in the days prior if you choose.
At the event start, you will have 30 minutes to frost and decorate your three cupcakes in any way you choose. The theme is “ADVENTURE BEGINS AT YOUR LIBRARY” named after… 
We are so excited to announce our 2024 SUMMER READING KICK-OFF SHOW with Magic Fred! Due to the intense heat index we will meet inside. Seating capacity inside is 105 and children have priority. Please bring bottled water.
Get ready for Magic Fred’s high energy magic and comedy show packed full of fun and surprises with a lot of audience participation! Invite your friends and neighbors to register as well… 
The book of the month is “Never Fall Down,” by Patricia McCormick.
When soldiers arrive in his hometown, Arn is just a normal little boy. But after the soldiers march the entire population into the countryside, his life is changed forever…
This is the unforgettable story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who defied the odds to survive the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and the labor camps of the Khmer Rouge. Authentically told… 
The book of the month is “Waiting For Normal,” by Leslie Connor.
This is a poignant and joyful novel, one filled with meaningful moments and emotional resonance.
This is the story of Addie, who is waiting for normal, with a bipolar mother who has an all-or-nothing approach to life — her way, or no way — and is keeping Addie from a normal life with her half-sisters and her step-father. … 
The book of the month is a graphic novel called “Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy,” with a story by Rey Terciero and penciled by Bre Indigo.
In the mood for a modern re-telling of Little Women?
It’s been quite the year for Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Their father is off with the military, and they must work overtime to make ends meet. In addition, each of the girls is… 
The book of the month is “The Cat I Never Named,” by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival.
The stunning memoir of a Muslim teen struggling to survive the Bosnian genocide — and the stray cat who served as a guardian angel.
Just as Serbian tanks rolled into her town of Bihac, Amra’s family was saddled with a stray cat, one they couldn’t afford and almost… 
The book of the month is “I’ll give you the sun” by Jandy Nelson.
“Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak.”
The twins, Jude and Noah, once incredibly close, are now hardly speaking to each other. Both of them have a past burdened by secrets, and a sibling rivalry that has pushed them apart. During their early years, Noah had struggled with an… 
The book of the month is “Gallant,” by V. E. Schwab.
Everything casts a shadow. Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meets its source.
All Olivia Prior has of her past is her mother’s journal—which seems to unravel into madness. Then, she receives an invitation to come home—to Gallant. Yet when she… 
The book of the month is ‘War Horse’ by Michael Morpurgo.
Separated by war. Tested by battle. Bound by friendship.
During the dark years of World War I, a service horse, named Joey, is purchased by the Army and made to serve the war effort in the embattled nation of France. Amid the chaos of The Great War, his previous owner, 15-year-old Albert, rediscovers the bond they once shared and…