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Making It: Light-Up Felties Monday, December 1 from 3:30-5:00pm Imagination Theater Let's get crafty! Join us and create fun felties with battery-powered lights inside. All supplies will be provided and registration is not required. |
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Best Books of 2025 for Middle Schoolers Want to read the best books of this year? |
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Winter Holidays Are you ready to celebrate? Check out our booklists below! |
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Middle School Advisory Group (MAG) Meeting
Wednesday, December 10, 4:00-5:00pm
Imagination Theater
Join the Middle School Advisory Group (MAG) to give library staff valuable feedback and assistance for programs, resources, and more! Get the chance to make a difference for middle school students at the library and earn volunteer experience.
For more information, please contact Children's Librarian Amanda Coleman at acoleman@arcadiaca.gov or 626-821-4379.
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26 by 2026
Can you read 26 more books by 2026? Challenge yourself and see your name in the stars! Write the names of the books you finish on our form and return it to the Jerry Broadwell Children’s Room by January 3rd! |
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Winter Break Activity Kits Looking for something to do during Winter Break? Pick up a Winter Break Activity Kit from the Arcadia Public Library’s Jerry Broadwell Children’s Room and enjoy a craft, activity sheet, and reading list. Available while supplies last. The kit for ages 10-14 will include a reading list, Mad Libs page, and the supplies and instructions to create needlework felted bookmarks. Available while supplies last. |
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Coach
by Jason Reynolds
Before Coach was the man who gave caring yet firm-handed guidance to Ghost, Lu, Patina, and Sunny on the Defenders track team, he was little Otie Brody, who was obsessed with Mr. 9.99 (a.k.a. Carl Lewis) and Marty McFly from Back to the Future. Like Mr. 9.99--and his own dad--Otie is a sprinter. Sprint free or die is practically his motto. Then his dad, who is always away on business trips, comes home with a pair of Jordans. JORDANS. Fine as fine can be. Otie puts them on and feels like he can leap to the moon...maybe even leap like Mr. 9.99 when he won the Olympic gold medal in the long jump. But one morning he wakes up to find his brand-new secret weapon kicks are missing--right off his feet And Otie just might have a fuzzy memory of his dad easing them off as Otie was sleeping, but that can't be right, can it? Unless all the reasons for his dad's gone's are very different from what he's been told... Because now, not only are the Jordans missing, but so is his father.
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Ghost Boys: The Graphic Novel
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Experience Jewell Parker Rhodes's award-winning storytelling in this tender yet visceral graphic novel adaptation of her New York Times bestselling novel, with poignant illustrations by Setor Fiadzigbey. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that is unleashed on his family and community in the wake of this unjust and brutal killing. Soon Jerome meets another ghost: Emmett Till, a boy from a very different time but similar circumstances. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey toward recognizing how historical racism may have led to the events that ended his life. Jerome also meets Sarah, the daughter of the police officer who shot him, as she grapples with her father's actions. Now gorgeously a graphic novel with gripping artwork from Black Panther illustrator Setor Fiadzigbey, Ghost Boys once again deftly explores the historical and sociopolitical layers involved in how children and families face the complexities of today's world--and how one boy, in particular, comes to understand American Blackness in the aftermath of his own death.
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A Field Guide to Broken Promises
by Leah Stecher
In this heartfelt follow-up to her critically acclaimed novel The Things We Miss, Leah Stecher explores the pressure of living up to perfection.
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Deeply Dave
by Michael Grover
Dave's mom is missing--and he's going after her. She's lost somewhere at the bottom of the ocean, stranded in the wreckage of her sunken spaceship. Only Dave can save her from the alien monsters and bizarre sea creatures that lurk in the depths. So Dave is going deeper--and deeper--and deeper--
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Xolo
by Donna Barba Higuera
It is said the mighty feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl, helped create the earth. He is the hero who stole back the bones of humanity from the evil god of the Underworld. In his quest to bring humans to the earth, Quetzalcoatl's dog-headed twin brother, Xolotl, was present. Not much is known of Xolotl, the god of lightning, death, and misfortune. A monster. This is what really happened. From Newbery Medalist Donna Barba Higuera and illustrator Mariana Ruiz Johnson comes a singular reimagining of the Aztec myth of the origin of man--and man's best friend--that is nothing short of a modern masterpiece.
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The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang
by Stan Yan
Twelve-year-old Eugenia Wang, who has never celebrated her birthday on April 4th due to her mom's superstition, starts to question whether she's cursed when troubling visions of doom begin to surface as she approaches her thirteenth birthday.
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Displaced
by Patrick Ochieng
Fourteen-year-old Kimathi has a comfortable life in the suburbs of western Kenya--until a contentious election explodes into violence. His father is killed, his house is destroyed, and he and his mother and sister must flee. They find themselves in a camp for internally displaced persons, who've been driven from their homes but haven't left their country.Kim struggles to adapt to his new reality: living in a tent, facing prejudice at the local school, and struggling to get basic supplies. His family even has to buy water by the jug, paying high prices controlled by a ruthless gang of water sellers.Gradually, Kim makes friends at the camp and starts to rebuild his life. Together, he and the other kids hatch a plan to get the camp a reliable water supplyalong with some hope.
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The Golden Necklace: A Darjeeling Tea Mystery
by Mitali Perkins
National Book Award nominee Mitali Perkins crafts a contemporary chapter-book mystery about a 12-year-old Nepali girl who sets out to solve the disappearance of her Bengali friend's missing jewelry. Set within a tea plantation in Darjeeling, 7-10-year-old readers are transported across the world to a politically and culturally rich setting, following our brave heroine, Sona. Sona, a 12-year-old Nepali girl, has struck up a friendship with Tara, the niece of the greedy tea plantation manager who has promised Tara's hand in marriage in order to get his hands on her inheritance of precious jewelry. Then Tara's gold jewelry goes missing. The search is on for the culprit, and Sona must use all her wits in order to prove it wasn't her beloved brother, Samiran Daju, who stole it. Filled with vivid characters against a complex and multilayered political and cultural backdrop, this novel showcases a strong girl protagonist whom readers will root for. The Golden Necklace is award-winning author Mitali Perkins's latest and most compelling story yet.
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Blood in the Water
by Tiffany D. Jackson
Brooklyn girl Kaylani McKinnon is thrust into an intricate web of lies when a shocking murder on Martha's Vineyard threatens to expose dangerous secrets--
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The Treasure Hunt: True Stories of Treasures Lost, Stolen, and Found
by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe
The ghost of Captain Kidd is trying to steal the world's treasure! Can you race around the globe and stop him? Switch on your metal detector and grab your compass. It's time for you to do some treasure hunting! Read maps, crack codes, and unravel riddles! You might just be the perfect kid for this mystery-filled book! Following a trail of intriguing clues, take an epic journey around the world and discover heart-stopping true stories of treasure lost, stolen, and found. Exactly where is Queen Nefertiti's mummy HIDDEN? Can the Titanic's treasures be SAVED from the waves? Could you help find a Viking HOARD with a metal detector? Find out which artist's work has been STOLEN more than 80 times and where you can DIG UP the tooth of a T. rex as YOU become the treasure hunter.
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The World at Night: Discover the World That Wakes When You Sleep
by Book Author
In the deepest, darkest depths of night, our planet is transforming and thriving ... At night, magic is all around in the natural world, from bioluminescent seas in the Caribbean to the Northern Lights on Arctic winter nights. Explore the lives of animals who tread a different path under the cover of darkness, including the perilous journey taken by baby turtles in the moonlight and the global migration of bearded pigs. Discover nocturnal plants that have evolved to only bloom in the moonlight, and wild mushrooms that depend on their glow-in-the-dark superpower for survival. Follow the people who wake to work hard through the night in towns and cities, such as hospital staff, fishing crews, bakers, firefighters, postal workers and security guards. Learn about our reliance on electric light across the world, and the human body clock's vital connection to light and darkness. A glossary of all notable terms is included at the end of the book.
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The Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide to Inventing the World
by Dylan Thuras
Here is a STEM-oriented exploration of the world's most interesting technologies, inventions, and scientific discoveries. Drawing from Atlas obscura's deep catalog of tech-related entries, this book will bring readers to fascinating locations all around the world and move them through the progressions and scientific ideas that forge innovation--Provided by publisher.
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