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Selecting Books for Kids

Selecting Books for Kids

by Patricia Rudolph Burlington Branch Raising a reader can be tough work. There are so many activities competing for your child’s time and attention-school, sports, friends, movies, and music. Even once you’ve gotten your child into reading, you and your child are...
STEAM in Libraries

STEAM in Libraries

What better place to learn about the world than at the library? Bring your kids in and they’ll see people socializing, reading the newspaper, browsing books and movies. In Burlington and Lebo branches, you’ll find fish swimming in their tanks, and at LeRoy branch you...
Streaming Series’ Based on YA Novels

Streaming Series’ Based on YA Novels

By Kristi Graham, Waverly Branch Director   Can’t get enough of your favorite YA books and series’? Check out some of the new page-to-screen adaptations streaming on the most popular streaming services. Shadow and Bone is now streaming on Netflix; it is based on...
Graphic Novels Are Valid

Graphic Novels Are Valid

Reading Is Reading   Between AR (Accelerated Reader) goals and assigned reading, it can be hard to convince kids that reading can be done simply for pleasure. Every book, even fiction, has to be evaluated: Is it within my reading level? Is it worth enough points?...