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--Friends of the Library

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 […]

--Staff Picks Kids

“Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” by Grace Lin

Young Minli lives with her parents nestled in a village at the base of Fruitless Mountain. Everyday her father tells her wonderous tales, and her mother sighs about how little rice is left. One day, a talkative goldfish sets Minli on an amazing journey to meet the Old Man of the Moon and change her […]