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Kids News and Kids Programs are regularly updated sections that feature the latest library and book news for kids and parents! Discuss My Rules for Online Safety with your children before they go online, and find tips for Safe Surfing the Internet from various Safety Related Websites.
Homework Help is available in person at the library’s Homework Center, and many homework resources are available online through web-sites designed specifically to support the homework questions of school-age children. Search Tools for Kids includes kid-friendly search engines and web guides created by educators and librarians can direct kids to specific recommended web-sites. Explore award-winning children’s books and recommended book series in Good Reads.
The Preschool Playground selects age-appropriate web-sites that will entertain and educate young children. Visual pages with recognizable characters from popular children’s books and educational programming are easier to navigate for those users who are developing their pre-literacy skills.
Just for Fun features links to online games and fun activities that children enjoy. Topics include sports, dinosaurs, magic tricks, favorite cartoons, coloring pages and silly stories.
Recent Posts
Book a Trip: READ Around The World Africa Book List
Go on safari in the savanna with Here is the African Savanna, choose your own African adventure in Race Forever, or try a tasty treat with Food & Recipes of Africa.
Don't forget to turn in your registration form and get your passport stamped by 2 pm on Sunday, November 8 in order to be...
What is your favorite Disney memory?
Disney on ice is celebrating 100 Years of Disney Magic. The Library has been asked to join the celebration so we have a contest for you. Leave us your favorite family Disney memory and you might win tickets. Read more to see how to enter.
Lot of bookworms at Heritage Christian, first-place winners of summer reading program
Kids who participated in our summer reading program walked away with coupons to local businesses, free books and lasting memories. And even though summer's over and kids are back in school, the memories of the library's SummerFest reading program still live on. Find out how.
Come Play Around the World
Sunday, November 8,
2:00-3:00 pm
Marvin Auditorium 101BC.
Join us on a trip around the world as we visit Japan to make and race an origami frog. Then we’re off to Costa Rica to play quientera la moneda (Who has the Coin?). We’ll shove ha’penny in England, make an Inuit ball toss game in Canada, then it’s back to the U.S.A. for a chance to win in the bookwalk.
R.E.A.D. Dogs Are Everywhere!
The R.E.A.D. (Read Education Assistance Dogs) program is amazing in its efforts to help children become better readers. The R.E.A.D. Dogs have been coming to the library for a couple of years and have always been a hit with children and grown-ups. More and more libraries are making these dogs a...
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