2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist
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.
"Three Latinx teenagers struggle to deal with encounters with an alien, and try to warn the world of the possibility of an alien invasion."--Provided by publisher.
Told in two voices, the budding romance between tenth-graders Uly Gates and Sallie Walls is tested when their sisters run against each other in a racially-charged campaign for student-body president.
After deciding to leave home to attend New York University and be near the boy she likes, eighteen-year-old Sydney Holman learns that her long-absent father is schizophrenic and she may be, too.
"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.
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.
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.
Open to East Brunswick students in grades 8 and up. New members welcome. You earn 1 hour of Community Service for attending.
Intermediate Python is the next step to level up your skills in Python. This course will allow you to write code in a much more clean, and efficient way. During the course, we will also dive deeper into the core concepts of Python such as object oriented programming, inheritance, scope, and additional data types. Interacting with files, debugging, and checks are also important concepts to forever change how you use code on a daily basis.
Call the library at 732-390-6789 to register. Space is limited and registration begins 8/9/22.
Intermediate Python is the next step to level up your skills in Python. This course will allow you to write code in a much more clean, and efficient way. During the course, we will also dive deeper into the core concepts of Python such as object oriented programming, inheritance, scope, and additional data types. Interacting with files, debugging, and checks are also important concepts to forever change how you use code on a daily basis.
Call the library at 732-390-6789 to register. Space is limited and registration begins 8/9/22.