2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Kids

Insectropolis

Join Insectropolis as they present their bugs on the go program!

A unique, memorable and educational program where participants will learn about this often misunderstood tiny animals.

There will be live animals! Please join us in learning about these cool creatures.

Ages 4 and up

There are four different sessions of the same presentation available. 

Please register online

The MoleCOOL Scientist: Extract DNA from a Strawberry (Zoom)

Teen Volunteer Shreya D. will show you how to extract DNA from a strawberry! Shreya will go through the process and give you the instructions to try on your own later! This is an informational program and you are not expected to follow along. 

This program is designed for kids in grades 4th through 6th, but all are welcome to attend.

Please register in advance by clicking "Join Event" to receive the Zoom login information so you have it before the program starts! Details will be re-sent to all registrants a half an hour prior to program start.

Pokémon Club

Join TAG volunteer Lilian in the YS programming room for Pokemon Club. Trade cards & play trivia games! No registration required. This program is best for Grades 3+, but all are welcome.

The Hired Girl

Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself -- because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of -- a woman with a future. (Inspired by the author's own grandmother's journal.)

The Wednesday Wars

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

Divergent

This first book in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series of books is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate

Winslet. This dystopian series set in a futuristic Chicago has captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult readers.