2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Teens

This is Not the Jess Show

Black Mirror meets My So-Called Life in this fast-paced, timely YA thriller about separating fact from fiction--and how far we'll go to create our own version of reality.

Like any other teenager, Jess Flynn is just trying to get through her junior year without drama ... but drama seems to keep finding her. Between a new crush on her childhood best friend, overprotective parents cramping her social life, and her younger sister's worsening health, the only constant is change--and her hometown of Swickley, which feels smaller by the day.

Lost Souls Memorial Project Event

In conjunction with the East Brunswick Public Library, Lost Souls Public Memorial Project will be mounting a Remembrance Exhibit to inform, inspire, and engage the local community. Knowing our history, its triumphs and its tragedies, allows us to chart a course for a more just future. Throughout September, the Library will host an exhibit about the Lost Souls - at least 137 African American women, men, and children in 1818, held captive in the home of a Middlesex County judge in what is now East Brunswick.

Kids Save the World!

Drop by anytime between 12:00 and 2:30 to visit stations and learn about different environmental issues and how kids hold the key to saving our planet. This program is presented by Divya and Aanya, local Girl Scouts committed to educating kids about environmental challenges so that today's young, creative thinkers can develop solutions.  To learn more about them and this important initiative, visit the Kids Save the World website.  For kids in 1st grade and up.

 

 

Unity Craft: Paper Flower Bouquets

Drop in to participate in this special community art project, in partnership with the Lost Souls Public Memorial Project.  Learn how to make a tissue paper flower with our teen volunteers, then make several to leave at the library.  Our teen volunteers will create beautiful bouquets that will be displayed in September.  Your flowers, in bouquets of flowers made by other people in our community, will represent you and the contributions you make to our great town.  All ages are welcome to join in.  Grown-ups, please let children know in advance t