Children's Services

Recommended Reading Lists

SPRING STORYTIMES !

Ed Morgan, the Music Man

Sing and Dance with the Music Man Ed Morgan, Monday afternoons

Stuffed Aniamls

Calling All Stuffed Animals
to the Stuffed Animal Sleepover!
May 10-11

Gwendolyn, by David Rottenberg


Gwendolyn
the Graceful Pig
with author David Rottenberg

Saturday, May 18
11:00 a.m.
Library Meeting Room
Bo
Come Meet Bo
Tuesdays from 4:00 to 5:00
Bo has gone to school to be a therapy dog, so he is the perfect listener.
CLICK HERE for information (PDF).

Family Movie Nights

Friday Night Movies!The Children’s Department shows family movies monthly on Friday evenings. Please stop by or call the Children’s Department 978-929-6655, ext. 4 to find out which movie we are showing. Our movie license restricts us from advertising the titles of the movies on our web site. All movies will begin at 7:00 in the Library Meeting Room. One adult must remain at the library with each family group for the duration of the program.

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Explore World Book and other online Reference tools!

Wii Games

Wii games The Childen's Department has a collection of Nintendo Wii Games. To search the Catalog for Wii games, click HERE.

Summer Reading Program Begins!

Programming offered by the
Children's Department

  • 4th Grade Booktalks (PDF)
  • Story times for various ages
  • Annotated lists of new books
  • Preschool and Scout visits to the Library
  • Junior Volunteer Program for students in grades 6 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 Noncirculating reference materials for Grades 2 through 8
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.


Other Children's Book sites

Who Was ---? Biography series (PDF)

 

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