The Lincoln Award is designed to encourage teens to read for personal satisfaction and become familiar with authors of young adult and adult books. The award is named for Abraham Lincoln, one of Illinois’ most famous residents and himself an avid reader and noted author. The Association of Illinois School Library Educators (AISLE) sponsors the award. For a book to […]
Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from Noelle Stevenson. […]
From 6th grade through 10th, Raina copes with a variety of dental problems that affect her appearance and how she feels about herself. […]
Are you looking for a volunteer opportunity? The Teens’ Top Ten group will be resuming in-person meetings and our first will be Monday, August 23rd from 3:30-4:30pm in the Teen Room. Be sure to signup here. We have not met in-person for a while, so it will be exciting! Stop in the Harnish library to grab an advanced reader copy […]
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a timeless novel centered around the truth of the American Dream. Contrary to some older books I have read in the past, Gatsby does not have one dull moment in it. Each character is interesting and compelling in their own way, even side characters such as […]
The bone-chilling graphic novel that inspired the major motion picture starring Ross Lynch as Jeffrey Dahmer. […]
This spring teens can choose from five different Take & Make DIY Kits to do from home! Request a Take & Make DIY Kit! Five will be available during April and May (while supplies last). Request one or all five! Mini Herb Decorative Pot – Celebrate spring by decorating your own mini pot complete with herbs to grow. Birdseed Ornament […]
Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from award-winning author Alan Moore, presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history–the U.S. won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold War is in full effect. […]
Congressman John Lewis is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper’s farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president. Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March, the first volume in a graphic novel trilogy. […]
Are you an avid gamer? Whether you like games such as Pac-Man, Super Mario, Call of Duty, or Animal Crossing, our modern version of video games would not exist without the pioneering efforts of a black engineer named Jerry Lawson. In 1976, Lawson helped oversee the creation of the Channel F (for “Fun”), the first-ever home video game console that […]
