Kids & Teens
Summer Reading Club
If you prefer to do the Reading Club on paper, email summer@lindenhurstlibrary.org for a packet to be mailed to your house.
Summer Reading Club 2020 FAQ
Reading Recommendations
Children’s Books
Young Adult Books
Not sure what book to pick next? Let our dedicated team of experts help you.
Simply fill out this form to tell us a little bit about your reading preferences, and we’ll provide you with a customized list of things to read that we think you will love!
eBOOKS
Download the Libby app in the App Store to gain access to thousands of children’s books for FREE!
Download the Libby app in the App Store to gain access to thousands of teen books for FREE!
TumbleBook Library is a curated database of children’s e-books, and includes our unique animated, talking picture books, read-along chapter books, national geographic videos, non-fiction books, playlists, as well as books in Spanish and French. Plus, the collection features Graphic Novels as well as Math Stories!
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Homework Help & Research
BrainfuseOn demand, anytime, anywhere eLearning includes: homework help, 24-Hour Writing Lab, and live tutors in math, science, reading/writing, social studies, PSAT/SAT, ACT, AP and state standardized tests.
CultureGramsFosters understanding and appreciation of the world’s countries and peoples by creating and publishing concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural content. Today the CultureGrams series is one of the most trusted and widely used cultural reference and curriculum products in the education, government, and non-profit arenas. In Library Link.
Contains proprietary book and journal articles, images and videos, topic-specific timelines, tables and charts, and diagrams. Science Online also features more than 1,600 science experiments and activities. These include downloadable, printable experiments in PDF format. In Library Link
World BookWorld Book Online Reference is your source for electronic encyclopedia, dictionary and atlas entries; as well as educator tools and resources.
1,000 Books Before Kindergarten
Celebrate reading everyday with 1000 Books Before Kindergarten! When you sign up your little one you can track books, monitor your progress, and earn prizes for reading milestones! The goal is simple – read 1000 books before your child starts kindergarten. Develop early literacy skills, instill a love for reading, and earn prizes just by sharing stories. Sign up today!
Borrow
Children’s Binge Boxes
We’ve made it easy for you to binge watch your favorite movies. Binge Boxes are perfect for movie nights, long weekends, days you are stuck inside, or when you just want to watch movies all day!
Starling
Drawing on hugely influential academic research about the importance of having “high-quality conversations” with your baby, the Starling can be clipped on to a child’s clothing, where it will track the number of words he or she hears and says each day, then feed the information into a smartphone app that encourages parents to meet daily goals.
Community Service
Pick a book to review from the Teen Zone or from Overdrive online. Fill out the Teen Book Reviewers Request Form (bit.ly/TBRRequest) so a librarian can approve your title. If your title is approved we will send you the link to the Teen Book Reviewers Submission Form.
Please allow for at least a weeks turn around time between your requests and a librarian’s response. Each review is worth 3 hours and each student is allowed to do 3 reviews a year. We will not accept reviews on books that were assigned for school and we limit multiple reviews on the same book.
Citizen Scientist Community Service Opportunity
Observe, record and share the plants, animals, and encounters with signs of organisms. Your observations are used to shed light on invasive species, native and endangered species.
1. Download the iNaturalist app (Apple Android) to your phone or device and create an account.
2. Go outside into your backyard, for a walk in the neighborhood or to a local park and take photos of wildlife and their signs. This can include plants, animals, fungi, animal tracks, nests or even things that have just died.
3. Log your findings on the iNaturalist app on your device. Check out the video tutorials on adding an observation here.
To earn one hour of community service credit you must submit 10 unique submissions; you can submit up to 40 unique specimens for four hours of community service. Each submission must have a species listed if you wish to receive community service credit for it; it cannot be listed as unknown.
4. Take a screenshot of your “My Observations” page showing at least 10 unique submissions and e-mail it to Ms. Rose at teenbookreviewers@lindenhurstlibrary.org. Please be sure to include your name as you would like it to appear on the community service letter and your mailing address so that Ms. Rose can send your letter in the mail.
Adoption Tails Community Service
Have you adopted a pet from an animal shelter or rescue league and given them a new home? Tell us your story and why rescuing and adopting an animal from a rescue league or shelter is so important to you. To participate fill out our form here and tell us your story.
Participants can submit one story per rescued pet. Each story will be worth 1 hour of community service. Your submission will not be considered complete until you e-mail Ms. Rose a picture of your pet at the communityservice@lindenhurstlibrary.org e-mail. Submissions will be used to create social media posts promoting shelter and animal rescue adoption.