June 2020

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Host a Family Game Night with Help from MidPointe

MidPointe has many resources available to help you enjoy a family game night! Looking for something more interactive to do with your family than just watching TV? MidPointe has lots of great board game options you can borrow for free with your library card. Can’t remember the rules to a classic game? No worries, we’ve got you covered with plenty of books containing game …

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Curbside Service Coming to MidPointe Library Liberty and Monroe Branches

MidPointe Library System continues to safely phase-in services after closure due to COVID-19 by introducing curbside service at the Liberty Township and Monroe locations. Starting June 29, contactless curbside service will be available Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM at MidPointe Library Monroe, 1 Tennessee Avenue in Monroe. Beginning June 30, …

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Learn to Speed Read, Improve Your Memory, and Teaching Skills – All with the Click of a Button

With so much learning going on today virtually, we’ve found a few video classes to help make life easier, available for free with your library card on the MidPointe Library website (www.midpointelibrary.org). Click here and log in with your library card number and PIN. Let the learning begin! Improve Your Reading Skills Speed Reading Fundamentals Top 5 Speed Reading Tips Improve Your Memory Improve Your Teaching Skills Creating Effective Online Learning …

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Early Literacy Tips

MidPointe’s Summer Reading Program is a great way to develop and strengthen early reading skills. Early literacy focuses on more than just reading to your child from a young age. Below are some ideas for your baby, toddler, and preschooler to encourage learning while talking, singing, playing, and reading. Please note, each child is unique …

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Select MidPointe Library System Locations Reopening on Wednesday

**UPDATED JULY 2** Select MidPointe Library System physical locations are open to the public with limited services. Currently, the Library does look differently than you remember it. Please know these precautions have been taken to best reintroduce the services we are able to responsibly and safely provide at this time. We appreciate your patience as …

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Recycled Cardboard Craft Tutorial

Use your imagination to create your own story! Follow this tutorial to build your own world – made from things you have around the house! You can even download your own printable to help you create! If you are participating in MidPointe’s Summer Reading Program, don’t forget to check off “Create Art” on your Activity Map!

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Use Creativebug to Make a Craft

Looking for something creative to do this summer? Why not make a craft using supplies you already have around the house? And with “Creativebug,” available 24/7 with your library card on the MidPointe Library website, you can follow along with their step-by-step video tutorials. If you are participating in MidPointe’s Summer Reading program, don’t forget to check off “use the Creativebug database to …

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More Fractured Fairy Tales Like Ella Enchanted

If you like fractured fairy tales like “Ella Enchanted,” you may enjoy these read-likes! The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka The Three Ninja Pigs by Corey Schwartz Goldilocks and Just One Bear by Leigh Hodgkinson Interrupting Chicken by …

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Resources to Help with Important Conversations

Talk about race. Explore diversity. Promote equality. Our librarians have put together a list of books to help with important conversations. Youth Board Books “A Is for Activist” by Innosanto Nagara “Antiracist Baby” by Ibram X. Kendi; illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky “Woke Baby” by Mahogany L. Browne; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III Picture Books Fiction …

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