Children (Ages 5-12)
Make learning fun! Explore read-alike book picks, join in scavenger hunts and library programs, or tap into homework and project help.
Featured Services
Children's Programs
Join us for art classes, STEM activities, storytimes, and more. Check out our upcoming library programs.
Homework Help
Get help with a tough assignment or dive deeper into a topic with our homework resources.
Book Picks and Reading Lists
Try our kid-centered book lists and picks. From read-alikes to award winners, discover a new favorite.
eLibrary for Kids
Browse kid’s eBooks, eMagazines, and eAudiobooks available for free through Overdrive or Libby app.
BookFlix
BookFlix pairs video storybooks with nonfiction eBooks to create a fun link between fact and fiction. Scroll down to B in the A-Z list of Research Databases.
Children’s News
Baby & Toddler Storytime Songs & Rhymes: March 5
Continue playing and learning with your child at home with songs and rhymes from Baby & Toddler Storytime. The two-page printable includes Puppy Pete and Webster's storytime favorites and suggested baby signs to explore with your child. There's...
Discovery Room: Imagination in Bloom
With the changing seasons come new activities in the children’s Discovery Room! Young visitors and their caregivers can explore the spring theme of “Garden Center” featuring flowers, vegetables, seeds, and other planting fun. Through May, children will delight in...
Baby & Toddler Storytime Songs & Rhymes: February 20
Continue playing and learning with your child at home with songs and rhymes from Baby & Toddler Storytime. The two-page printable includes Puppy Pete and Webster's storytime favorites and suggested baby signs to explore with your child. There's...
Discovery Room: So Cold
December 2023 - February 2024: The Discovery Room is ready for imaginative play centered around the wintery theme of "so cold" - snowflakes, snow friends, icy winds, and, of course, ice cream! Children can play ice cream parlor as they scoop, serve, and sell sweet...
Mystery Youth Writing Contest Winners
October 31, 2023: Congratulations to all of our Youth Mystery Writing Contest participants! Twenty-nine young writers (ages 8-12) submitted stories to our mystery writing contest based on Long Lost, a middle-grade novel by Minnesota Book Award Winner Jacqueline West....
Discovery Room: Water & the St. Croix River
September - November 2023: The Discovery Room is ready for imaginative play centered around the theme of water and the St. Croix River. Children can investigate a pretend pool containing stuffie fish and puppet animals that are found in the St. Croix River Valley;...
Book Picks for Starting Kindergarten
It’s hard to think about going back to school when it feels like summer just started. However, if your child is starting school for the first time, they might have some questions or worries about these changes. Will I have friends, are my new teachers nice, will the...
Library Card Design Contest Winner
We are so excited to announce the winner of our 2023 youth library card design contest: Audrey Mast! We were impressed and inspired by the creativity and talent of all of our community’s youth, and it was really difficult to choose just one entry from the 70 library...
In the Discovery Center: Apples
Calling young farmers, merchants, mathematicians, and aeronauts! Explore and play in our new discovery area located in the Storytime Room on the lower level of the library. The Imagination Station is back and decked out for fall with a theme of apples. Sell...
Explore nature this summer!
Early childhood educators, researchers, youth librarians, parents, and caregivers can all attest to the benefits of being immersed in nature. Young children's brains develop rapidly and the more experiences they have that involve all their senses, the better. Time...