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This is the spot for finding the library's newest additions, booklists of great reads, your school's Accelerated Reader lists, and websites for your favorite authors and stories.
School Reading Programs | New Books @ IPPL | IPPL Reading Programs | Award Winners | Book Lists | Stories Online | What We're Reading
 School Reading Programs
Find books that are a part of the reading program used by your school!
New Books @IPPL
Check out the newest additions to our collections! Subscribe to one of our bookletters and have them delivered to your inbox.
Toddler Board, Easy Reader and Picture Books
Chapter books
Join a Reading Program!
Summer and Winter Reading Programs
Check out our Current Programs page for information on our Summer and Winter Reading programs!
Reading Patch Club
Sept. 1, 2011 - April 30, 2012
Read during the school year to earn cool patches! It's easy! Sign up at the Youth Services desk, and get your reading logs. Choose a genre from the list below, and start reading! Once you've read 10 books in the genre you've selected, bring your log back to the library and collect your patch.
Patches: Adventure, Animals, Award Winners, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Horror, Historical Fiction, Humor, Mystery, Read to Me, Science Fiction, Sports.
You can sign up for the club at any time--the program runs through April 30, 2010 before it takes a break for summer. If you signed up last year, you can start a new genre, or pick up where you left off last spring!
Award Winners
Awarded by Illinois young readers in grades k-3. Check out our programs page for info on the Monarch Challenge and other special Monarch programs!
Awarded by Illinois young readers in grades 3-5. Check out our programs page for info on the Bluestem Challenge and other special Bluestem programs!
Awarded by Illinois young readers in grades 4-8. Check out our programs page for info on the Caudill Challenge!
Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Awarded annually by the Association of Library Services to Children to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Best author or illustrator of books for beginning readers, awarded annually by the American Library Association.
Best books by authors and illustrators of African descent, awarded annually by the American Library Association.
Awarded to the best informational (nonfiction) book.
Best books created by writers and illustrators of Latino culture. Named for Pura Belpré, a librarian and author.
Book Lists
Can't decide what to read? Check out these websites for some great book lists!
Reading lists compiled by the Youth Services Staff.
KidsReads is the best place on the web for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and authors.
A great site by Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Public Library for all things book related!
From the New York Public Library
Want to know the order of your favorite series? Check out this site from Mid-Continent Library!
 Stories Online
Online Ebooks and storytelling
An online collection of animated, talking picture books. IPPL Library card required
Noted actors read popular picture books. This page is sponsored by the Screen Actor's Guild.
Watch video of noted storytellers spinning their favorite tales. From the Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Libraries.
Digital library of multicultural and multi-language children's books. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Institute for Museum and Library studies, and Microsoft Research to create a digital library of children's literature from all over the world.
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