Children's Services

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Summer Reading Program Begins!

Programming offered by the
Children's Department

  • 4th Grade Booktalks (click for complete list)
  • Story times for various ages
  • Annotated lists of new books
  • Preschool and Scout visits to the Library
  • Junior Volunteer Program for students in grades 5 through 8
  • Librarians visit Kindergarten classes at the end of every school year
  • Library instruction for Grades 5 and 6
  • Annual Summer Reading Program
  • PCs for word processing, CD-ROM use and filtered Internet access.

The monthly Events Calendar is available online and in the Children's Department, or you may ask the Children's Librarian for details by calling 978-929-6655, option 4.

Collections in the
Children's Department

Picture Book Collection
 For Preschool, Kindergarten, and Grade 1
Board books, letters and numbers, nursery rhymes, fiction, nonfiction and holiday books
Beginning Readers
Books with controlled vocabulary and font size
Fiction Collection
 For Grades 2 through 6
Hardcover and paperback fiction
Teen Collection
 For Junior High Grades
Hardcover and paperback fiction
Nonfiction Collection
 For Grades 2 through 8
Reference Collection

For Grades 2 through 8
Noncirculating reference materials
Magazine Collection
For Preschool through Junior High School
Educational and entertainment periodicals

Recommended Reading Lists

Here are the Acton School Department's recommended summer reading lists. The books recommended are linked directly to the Minuteman Library Catalog so you can determine availability immediately.