Kids and parents in Kids World

Welcome to Kids' World, where kids and their caregivers can explore books, play, learn, make, ask questions, and meet other families in our community. Explore the library's reimagined and refreshed Kids’ World space designed to meet the growing needs of its youngest customers. The updated spaces in Kids’ World offer flexible, interactive and experiential learning zones dedicated to specific age groups with resources and activities to meet kids' developmental needs and interests. Kids learn through play, so come play!

Girls walking throunh entry

Welcome

This new entrance to Kids’ World was constructed at the end of 2023 to welcome library visitors. Other family-friendly upgrades include an all-gender restroom and a Wellness Room, which offers a quiet space for nursing mothers and anyone who may need a calming space during their visit.

Girls Making

Tween Space

Tweens in grades 4 to 6 now have a space all their own to explore making and DIY drop-in activities. Craft, build and tinker at the Maker Table full of supplies and projects, donated by the Library Foundation. Tweens can spend time with friends and make new ones, play video games or find a book recommended by a tween in the Tween Space.

Boy Playing

Everbright

Kids’ World’s Interactive Family Zone provides an engaging space for children of all ages and their families. At the zone’s center is the Everbright wall, measuring almost eight feet wide by four feet tall, with endless play opportunities for all abilities. Funded by the Library Foundation.

Girl playing

Floor Projection

A floor projection system provides kids with a fun, open play space to enjoy interactive games together right in the heart of Kids’ World. Check out the projection floor each time you visit. You never know what new game or activity you’ll discover just by looking down. Funded by the Friends of the Library.

girl eating carrot

Snack Area

If you need a snack break, there is now a café area with open seating just inside Kids’ World by the fish tank. A designated snack area protects all customers from accidental exposure to food allergens and keeps Kids' World lookin' good!

Kid drawing

Lindsey Room

The Lindsey Room, home to storytimes and countless craft and activity programs, has new flooring, paint colors and a sink for washing big and little hands.

Cart

Tinker Cart

Full of fun supplies, the Tinker Cart will keep kids in grades K-3 engaged during drop-in programs for making and creating in the Lindsey Room. Funded by the Library Foundation.

Girls playing

Imagination Station

This engaging play area builds vocabulary and improves social skills as kids use their imaginations to play together or with their caregiver. Theme rotates monthly.

mother and infant in baby garden

Baby Garden

The littlest library visitors now have a dedicated place of their very own to safely explore soft play toys and grow socially in this highly tactile space. For non-walking infants and their caregivers.

Upcoming Kids' Programs

10
Jun

Our Time: Developmental Playgroup

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM /Lindsey Room

10
Jun

Storytime in the Park

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM /See Description for Location

11
Jun

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM /Lindsey Room

11
Jun

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM /Kids' World

11
Jun

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM /Lindsey Room

11
Jun

Storytime in the Park

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM /See Description for Location

NEW TO THE LIBRARY

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Gibbs, Stuart, 1969-

Resident sleuth Teddy Fitzroy is on the case to find a missing African elephant and clear his friend Xavier of vandalizing a bulldozer in protest of a builder ruining a beloved piece of land they call TurtleTown

Marya Khan and the disastrous class project

Faruqi, Saadia,

"It's time for her class's country project, and Marya is super excited. She loves public speaking, and she's assigned Pakistan, where her family is from. But Marya has two problems: She doesn't actually know very much about her grandparents' country, and she's paired with new kid Waleed, who is so shy he can barely talk, let alone present to the class. Marya figures if she can just befriend Waleed, he'll help her make the best project ever. It's time for Operation Make a Friend! But how do you make a friend? Play sports? Make jokes? With time running out before the big presentation, Marya worries she'll never get this Waleed kid to loosen up. But after researching a lot about friendship--and Pakistan--she might be able to save this project yet!"--Back cover

The gods' revenge

Marsh, Katherine,

After Layla is banished from school for asserting her beliefs, Ava and her friends travel to the underworld to rescue Layla and uncover the truth about their fiendish ancestors

Make a little wave

Cerra, Kerry O'Malley,

"When shy Savannah discovers her friend's family is involved in inhumanely killing endangered sharks for profit, she forces herself out of her comfort zone to stand up for the sharks"--

Pixley, Marcella,

"Anna sees ghosts. The spirits of her ancestors call to her from the shadows, and no matter where she is, Anna always answers. Kids in her middle school tease her. Teachers and parents are worried by her strange behavior. The only one who seems to understand is Anna's beloved grandmother, Bubbe, who has always treasured Anna's shayna neshama, her beautiful soul. Spending Shabbos with Bubbe is the only thing that gives Anna the sense of love and belonging that she needs. But when a ghost named Ruthie appears at Bubbe's house by the sea, Anna begins to uncover long-hidden secrets that reveal the mystery of her family's troubled past. As Anna and Ruthie get closer, Anna must decide for herself whether being connected to a restless ghost is worth the risk. When it becomes clear that Bubbe's life is in danger, Anna must face the horrible truth: She alone has the ability to save her family and heal the wounds that follow them from one generation to the next."--

Méndez, Yamile Saied,

"Eleven-year-old Florencia finds her ballet dreams and some friendships cut short after a panic attack during a performance, but she forges a new path for herself as she comes to terms with her anxiety."--

The truth about the Tooth Fairy

Miriam, a young Orthodox Jew, uses her detective skills to investigate and debunk the Tooth Fairy's existence, but her investigation takes an unexpected turn that leads her to question whether the Tooth Fairy might be real after all

The Incorruptibles

Magaziner, Lauren,

"Fiora Barrowling lives in a world where sorcerers rule over humans. After surviving an encounter with The Radiance--the very worst of the sorcerers--she's whisked away to the incredible Incorruptibles ("Inc") Academy, a school for resistance fighters in training. But most of the other students think Fiora hasn't earned her place there, and when things start to go wrong and it seems the sorcerers have a spy in the academy, all eyes are on Fiora. With all odds stacked against her, can Fiora prove that she belongs?"--Amazon

Stink and the Big Bad Badgers

McDonald, Megan,

Stink and his friends are raring to learn wilderness survival skills and form their own troop, the Big Bad Badgers, but there is more for the squabbling scouts to learn than tying knots, reading animal tracks and eating insects

"A group of twelve-year-old girls start a small business helping their local neighborhood spirits pass on to the other side."--

Charlie Hernández & the hand of darkness

The League of Shadows has done everything they can to keep the Land of the Living safe from La Mano Peluda, but it hasn't been enough. The barriers between the worlds are falling, and the forces of the dead are only days away from launching an unstoppable invasion. Only one hope remains for the living: unleashing the full power of the Morphling--all five of them, to be exact. But to do so, Charlie and his friends will have to journey into the very heart of the Land of the Dead to track down Charlie's predecessors. Determined to fulfill his destiny as the final morphling, Charlie will risk everything to bring balance back to the realms. But the Land of the Dead is no place for the living. Danger lurks everywhere, from ancient malevolent forests to legendary beasts that haven't been seen for millennia. Yet, in the end, it is death itself the friends will have to overcome in this epic conclusion to the Charlie Hernández series

Destructo World

Cheney, Yarrow,

"Noah thought nothing was worse than being the only un-super person in Superworld. He was dead wrong. Welcome to Destructo World, where super-villains rule and heroes are on the run. With the super stone in his giant metal clutches, Dr. Destructo is re-powering the heroes with useless and humiliating powers like bubble-beams and silly string. To protect themselves, the 'heroes' have gone into hiding. Even Noah's friends are MIA! But there is hope. Noah might be the key to taking down Dr. Destructo. He might be the only one who can rally the heroes for a final, epic super-battle to save Superworld. And he might not die in the process."--

"A motley crew of talkative plants, a curious spider, and a grumpy goldfish use their newfound magical abilities to defend their family from a greedy human"--

The summer of the fortune tellers

Greenwald, Lisa,

"Is the magic really back? When Mille, Nora, and Bea found fortune tellers popping up in unexpected places--with eerily accurate fortunes--they reunited as best friends. Now that they're back to being besties, they're excited to spend the summer together outside the city. Recruited into babysitting eight-year-old triplets and staying with Millie's family, the girls are hoping this will be their own private summer camp, one where they're in charge, away from annoying siblings and toxic frenemies. But nothing perfect can last. When everything from homesickness and boy craziness to real estate developers threaten their summer, Millie, Nora, and Bea start stumbling upon fortune tellers in the strangest places. And once again it feels like these fortune tellers are speaking to them: 'Sometimes in life you just have to jump in.' 'Speak your mind and stand up for what you believe in!' 'You are here for a reason.' If they speak up, can Millie, Nora, and Bea really save the summer--and the community--before it's too late?"--Provided by publisher

Through the storm

When a rainy drizzle on the island of Sol becomes a heavier downpour Isla and her friends decide to have a slumber party