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“Pizza Girl” by Jean Kyoung Frazier

The titular pizza girl of Jean Kyoung Frazier’s debut novel is eighteen, pregnant, and lives at home with her mother and boyfriend. She works as a delivery driver for a local greasy pizza joint. One day, a woman named Jenny calls in an order for a cheese pizza and pickles. Something in Jenny’s voice intrigues […]

Teens

FYRE Sign-Up

FYRE (For Your Reading Enjoyment) is a FREE packaged experience delivered monthly with a personalized book recommendation and special items for you to KEEP! Our subscription service is similar to other, paid services such as OwlCrate, Fab Fit Fun, and Loot Crate. To register just fill this form with your information and reading tastes! When […]

Kids

REXommendations Sign-Up

REXommendations is a FREE packaged experience for readers twelve and younger. Your REXommendations is delivered bimonthly with a personalized book recommendation and special items for your child to KEEP! Our subscription service is similar to other, paid services such as OwlCrate, Fab Fit Fun, and Loot Crate.

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Internet and Technology Resources

The library is here to help start off  the school year, no matter what it looks like for you! Need a laptop and/or access to Wifi? You are in luck, we circulate laptops and Wi-Fi hotspots. CLASSES: Mark your calendars and sign up here for our up-coming class on ZOOM! ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES: Accessible […]

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Voting Information for Massachusetts

“At a time when we are searching everywhere for community, for connection, for a sense of belonging, for the engines of democracy that will revitalize our civic life, we have … the most amazing social infrastructure that designers could ever build and it’s called the library.” -Eric Klinenberg, professor, author Getting ready to vote next […]

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Library Card Sign-Up Month!

September is Library Card Sign-up Month, a time when Haverhill Public Library joins the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries nationwide to remind parents, caregivers and students that signing up for a library card is the first step on the path to academic achievement and lifelong learning. There is nothing more empowering than signing up […]

Kids

Back to School Book Bonanza (Fall Reading Challenge)

Join us for our Back to School Book Bonanza on Beanstack! Read a comic book. Listen to an audiobook. Experience a spooky story. We have fifteen reading challenges for you to complete! Finish five for a free book. Complete ten for another free book. Conquer all fifteen challenges to be entered into our gift card […]

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Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

At Miss Preston’s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane McKeen is training to become an Attendant. When she graduates, she will become someone who serves the upper class with proper etiquette, but also with the skills to take down the dead who have risen on the battlefields of the Civil War. But soon more problems […]

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Kids Program Suggestion

Do you have a great idea for a program you’d like the library to host? Tell us! If your program is accepted you will be contacted by a Children’s Librarian! *Please note all library programs must be held virtually until further notice