2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Kids

Property of the Rebel Librarian

June Harper is a rule-following, flute-playing, avid reader -- in short, a good kid.  But when her parents deem a book from school "inappropriate," a massive book ban at June's school ensues.  Suddenly, everything June loves is gone.  Then she discovers a Little Free Library in town and with her access to contraband (books!), she begins running a secret banned books library from an empty locker and unexpectedly becomes the most popular girl in school.

Seriously, could we not feature this book on the library's website?

So Thankful for New Picture Books!

We notice many families find it hard to walk past the new picture books on display without picking one up.  Ahhh, the lure of a new book!  The stories, the illustrations, the crisp pages, the scent of fresh ink...  (Nope, it's not just you!) 

Would you believe our library currently has over 500 books in this new picture book category?  We hope those of you who have some of them checked out right now are enjoying them!

Kindness Makes the World Go Round

Elmo wakes up on World Kindness Day to discover that he's been in someone's thoughts, and that someone has left him a very thoughtful package!  Mommy has given him a camera and has challenged him to capture images of kindness all over Sesame Street.  With that, Elmo is visiting with Big Bird and Oscar, Rosita and Julia, Snuffy and Grover; and he learns that "Kindness take practice, but when you deliver, you may be surprised -- it's great being the GIVER!"

JoJo and the Twins

Fancy Nancy's little sister is finally featured in her very own easy reader!  JoJo is so excited to be a big sister and to help take care of her twin brothers, Robby and Teddy.  But the babies look the same, cry the same, even burp the same!  Will JoJo ever be able to tell them apart?  This book is on Guided Reading Level I.

Small Spaces

When eleven-year-old Ollie finds a disheveled, weeping woman by the river threatening to throw a book into the water, she doesn't think, she just acts -- grabbing the book and bolting!  As Ollie begins to read, she finds herself entranced by the creepy tale, entitled Small Spaces.  She's still reading the next day on her school field trip to a local farm when she discovers that the mysterious woman runs the farm and that the graves of the people who she's been reading about are located there, too.  When the school bus breaks down on the return trip, the day takes a turn from strang