Help us spend some genealogy funds!
Curtis Library recently received a gift specifically to support the community’s genealogists. Before spending those funds we would like your suggestions about resources you would like to see the Library obtain- books, magazines, genealogy databases?
Please email […]
Summer Reading Challenge (For Adults): July Edition
Although Adult Services is not doing a summer reading challenge with game board, we would like to challenge you to read outside your comfort zone and perhaps discover some new books.
So, here are your three reading challenges for July:
Read a work of fiction […]
Summer Reading Challenge for Kids Starts June 20!
Read, create, play, have fun!
Beginning on Tuesday, June 20, pick up a Summer Reading packet and get started to win fun prizes!
Available for all ages through grade 5 – readers and pre-readers.
Also, starting June 20, […]
Summer Reading Challenge (for Adults) – June Edition
Summer is nearly here and although Adult Services won’t be doing a challenge with a game board and prizes this year, we still want to offer you some reading challenges. We will post monthly with ideas on how you […]
Read ME Summer Selections
We’re happy to announce that Curtis Library is a Read ME 2023 participating library! This summer’s featured books are Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty and Lungfish by Meghan Gilliss.
Read ME is the […]
Novels for Kids Who Love Animals
Bea and the New Deal Horse
by L. M. Elliott
Abandoned by her father after Black Tuesday, thirteen-year-old Bea convinces Mrs. Scott to take in her and her sister, in exchange for farm work and Bea bonds with a seemingly untrainable horse.
New Titles Added to Bestseller Express
Are you one of 222 people on hold for Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano? Or waiting for The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear (97 holds)? […]
New Graphic Novels for Kids
Fantasy Adventures
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Introducing the 2023-24 Maine Student Book Award Nominees!
So many choices! Calling all 4th- 8th graders – read three (or more) of these titles and vote for your favorite in the spring of 2024.
Adventure
Fantasy
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New Mysteries
Lots of new mysteries! Click on title to check availability and request.
A Gentle Murderer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
First published in 1951, this solid if somewhat dated […]
Five CloudLibrary Audio Adventures for Kids
CloudLibrary has lots of fantastic audiobooks for your family to sink its ears into. Here are a few.
The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton Eleven-year-old Ella Durand is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute, a magic school […]
Me, Myself, and I: Graphic Memoirs and Autobiographies for Kids
El Deafo
by CeCe Bell
Funny and deeply heartfelt, El Deafo chronicles CeCe Bell’s hearing loss at a young age and her experiences with the Phonic Ear, a powerful and very awkward hearing aid. The Phonic Ear allows her to […]