2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Teens

Golden Boys

"Gabriel, Reese, Sal, and Heath are best friends, bonded in their small rural town by their queerness, their good grades, and their big dreams. They are about to embark on the summer before senior year of high school, where each is going on a new, big adventure, from attending a design school in Paris to interning on Capitol Hill for a U.S. Senator. What will this summer of new experiences and world-expanding travel mean for each of them--and for their friendship?"

The Invincible Summer Of Juniper Jones

It’s the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he’s sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he’s not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town’s resident oddball and free spirit, she’s everything the townspeople aren’t―open, kind, and accepting.

The Code Breaker

"Walter Isaacson's #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers"-- Provided by publisher.

Find the Hungry Duck

September is Hunger Action Month.  Kids in grades 1-4 can join Olivia Forté-Gardner, from Middlesex County’s food bank REPLENISH, to learn about food insecurity.  What does it mean, how can you help, how can you help other kids?  We’ll explore the topic with an inspiring story followed by their Find the Hungry Duck game and hunger action creative activity.

Book Swap

Do you own books that you're not planning to re-read?  Everything old is new again at the library's Book Swap!  Bring up to 10 of your used books to swap with other readers.  You'll be issued one "book buck" for every book you bring, plus one extra just for attending, and you can use your book bucks to "pay" for the books you decide to make yours.  

Don't have any books to swap?  You're still welcome to attend and select one book to keep.

Books must be in good condition.  Textbooks and instruction manuals are not accepted.

Open to all ages.