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--Staff Picks

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

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Send a Fax

The Library offers faxing services to the general public. Our fax number is 978-373-8466, and fees are as follows: Faxing within the US: Send: $3.00/1st page, then $1.00/pageReceive: $1.00/page Faxing internationally: Send: $5.00/1st page, then $4.00/pageReceive: $1.00/page Fax Policies and Regulations Only a member of the library staff may operate the fax machine. Outgoing faxes […]

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Change My Password

Your password starts out as the last four (4) digits of the phone number you provided when making your library card. To change this: Log into your library card account (this will require your card number and the pin number) and go to account settings. Scroll down to the “Change Pin” tab and create a […]

--Staff Picks Teens

“An Abundance of Katherines” By John Green

Rachel read An Abundance of Katherines and this is what she thought… Colin has been dumped 19 times, all by girls named Katherine. Heartbroken after breakup number 19, Colin and his best friend take a road-trip and end up in Gutshot, Tennessee where they meet a girl named Lindsey. Colin and Lindsey work together to come […]

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The Smartest Card in YOUR Wallet: an HPL Library Card!

September is Library Card Sign-up Month, a time when the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country remind parents and caregivers that a library card is the smartest card your can own. We are pleased nearly 65% of Haverhill’s residents held library cards as of June 30, 2012; we’d love to increase that […]

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Parent-Teacher Collection

The Library maintains an extensive collection of resources for parents and teachers as part of our parent-teacher collection.  The Parent-Teacher collection includes resources for serving youth with special needs, curriculum development, Common Core Standards, and much much more.  The Parent-Teacher collection also includes a variety of different types of kits available for parents and teachers, including […]

--Staff Picks Kids

“Bear Came Along” by Richard T. Morris

*Summer Reading List Spotlight* This title was on the 2020 Haverhill Public School’s recommended summer booklist for Grades PreK-1 and Grades 2-3. Amanda read Bear Came Along and this is what she thought… Bear and his new friends go on an adventure with the help of a river. I chose to read this picture book because I […]

--Staff Picks Kids

“Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom” by Louis Sachar

The kids of Wayside School — a school 30 floors high with one classroom on each floor — must prepare for the Ultimate Test as a literal cloud of doom settles overhead. Anyone who fails the test will be sent all the way back to kindergarten. The dark cloud of doom makes the wacky students […]

--Staff Picks

“The Electric State” by Simon Stålenhag

Part art book, part novella, “The Electric State” by Simon Stålenhag is a fascinating and bleak look into a bizarre alternate history 90s America. Physically larger than a typical hardcover book, most pages within are dominated by wide scenic vistas of a state in decline, beset by a slow moving catastrophe only mentioned in passing by the […]