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Children’s Programs for December

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Drop-in Weekly Children’s Programs 

The Lunch Bunch – Tuesdays @ 11:30AM, ages 2-5 Bring your lunch and enjoy an easy going craft/book/or open play!

Music in Motion for Toddlers –Wednesdays @ 10AM, ages 2-5 Move & sing with us!

Story Time & Craft – Thursdays @ 10AM, ages 2-6  A little bit of story, science, craft and play.

Check our all of our children’s programs on our main page happenings!

 

2025 Readers Dozen Challenge

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2025 Reading Challenge!

Our annual year-long reading challenge is here again! Each month, read a book with one of the corresponding monthly key words in the title. Enter your name each month to win a prize, and if you complete all 12 months, you may just take home the grand prize!

Monthly Key Word

Jan – Storm, Time, Know, Return, Break, Hour, Twist, Silence

Feb – Art, Golden, Dream, First, Club, Went, Stay, Live

Mar – Deep, Clever, Sand, Little, Happy, Date, Guest, Over

Apr – Rest, Days, Upstairs, Sing, Shell, Starlight, Life, Couple

May – Lost, City, Wind, Hide, Lie, Fan, Room, Clear

June – Great, Wander, Child, Mine, Book, Watch, Heart, Save

July – Sunrise, Deepen, Story, Sweet, Resort, Good, Left, Ever

Aug – Side, World, Sound, Trial, Word, Hotel, Now, Say

Sept – Borrow, Survive, Listen, Where, Sleeping, Crash, Please, Count

Oct – Bury, Ghost, Chain, Glass, Moon, Last, One, Street

Nov – Tale, Final, Feast, Bloom, Cliff, Wide, Memory, Always

Dec – Fable, Flirt, Truly, Shop, Winter, Yours, Warm, Love

*Audio books count! *Extra Credit! Borrow a book through a JCCL online resource (Hoopla or Palace Project) and have your name entered in that month’s drawing twice!

Breakfast Book Club – Wednesday, December 3rd@ 9:30AM

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Breakfast Book Club

Nonfiction Book Club – Last Wednesday of the Month @ 9:30AM (See some updates!)
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Wednesday, December 3rd @ 9:30 AM

Our non-fiction book club! We are discussing two books: “The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a CT and NY Legend” and “Hidden History of Connecticut”. Copies available!

Wednesday, January 7th @ 9:30AM

Our non-fiction book club! We are discussing “The Crate: A Story of War, a Murder, and Justice” by Deborah Vadas Levison.