Can you defeat the Multiplication Zombies, or save the Place Value Pirates? These are just some of the adventures which you can go on with Mr. Nussbaum! Head over to this website to start!
Audience: For Children
Starfall Reading
Just star-ting to learn how to read? Jump into the exciting reading world of Starfall filled with colorful characters and fun reading games so you can get learning!
Between The Lions Reading Games
Are you ready to get wild about reading? Join Lionel, Cleo, Theo and Leona the lions as they try to use their reading skills to do fun things around their own library!
Learning Links for Kids
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Between The Lions Reading Games
Are you ready to get wild about reading? Join Lionel, Cleo, Theo and Leona the lions as they try to use their reading skills to do fun things around their own library!
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Brain Connection Games & Teasers
Are you ready to train your brain? Try out these fun mind teasers and exciting games to improve your ability to remember and sound phrases out in your head. Can you beat them all?
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BrainPop
What happens when a robot and a human are best friends? Join Tim, the human and Moby, the robot as they navigate the mysteries of life on BrainPop. Do you want to learn about something new?
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Disney Junior Games
Explore the Cave of Mystery with Jake and the Neverland Pirates, or help Mickey Mouse on his Out of This World Treasure Hunt. Tons of fun Disney Junior themed activities await you on this magical site!
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Free Rice
Each question answered correctly on this website donates ten grains of rice to starving families in need. Can you show your smarts, and help someone who needs it in your free time?
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Funbrain Learning Games
Jump into this children’s arcade with numerous activities such as Vine Time and Desert Dive. Venture over to the Math Zone to take on challenges like Cake Monster, Rock the Boat and Math Baseball.
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Mr. Nussbaum’s Learning Games
Can you defeat the Multiplication Zombies, or save the Place Value Pirates? These are just some of the adventures which you can go on with Mr. Nussbaum! Head over to this website to start!
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National Geographic Kids Exploration
Do you want to learn about the world and the animals that live on it? Become a Junior Geographer by playing games and researching on National Geographic Kids!
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Science Bob!
Fizz, boom, pop! Do you want to make your a fantastic foamy fountain or learn about the science of electromagnets? If you do, head over to Science Bob’s website where you can become a scientist.
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Starfall Reading
Just star-ting to learn how to read? Jump into the exciting reading world of Starfall filled with colorful characters and fun reading games so you can get learning!
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Super Healthy Kids
Are you an aspiring chef looking to get a head start in preparing food for your family? Try awesome recipes like Frozen Yogurt Pops and Baked Mac and Cheese cups on this website!
Teen Librarian Marisa’s Pick
Wolf Hollow : a novel / Lauren Wolk (2016 children’s book, MDL Wolk)
Growing up in a rural Pennsylvania town in the aftermath of two world wars, Annabelle confronts a violent new bully and must defend a traumatized World War I veteran who is wrongly implicated in the bully’s disappearance.
Homework Help & Research
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A to Z Maps Online
The world’s most comprehensive collection of downloadable maps including modern maps, historical maps, maps of exploration, geography games and video guides. Available on library computers, or at home from the library’s website for Avon cardholders.
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AbdoZOOM Animals
Young readers will explore 160 pages of fascinating and interactive animal content in depth! Animals can be easily filtered by geography, habitat, and classification. Topic tabs feature overviews, characteristics, life cycles, feeding habits, personality traits, history, and more. With read-along audio, beginning readers can go on an adventure with their favorite animals!
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AbdoZOOM Biographies
With 160 compelling biographies to choose from, young readers will learn about the lives of important people and their contributions. Each biography is broken down into easy-to-read, chronological sections, focusing on each person’s impact, early life, rise to fame, breakthrough, legacy, and more. Enjoy a diverse list of important figures from yesterday and today, including inventors, explorers, entertainers, athletes and activists.
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AbdoZOOM STEAM
Young readers can explore more than 100 topics through the lens of how they relate to Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. Each topic is broken down into sections about the five STEAM categories. Plus, a special art project helps spur creativity. With read-along audio and colorful pictures, this database is a great introduction into the wide world of STEAM!
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BookFlix
BookFlix is an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction from Children’s Press and other trusted Scholastic imprints. It is published by Scholastic Inc.
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CultureGrams
Reports on 187 countries and all 50 U.S. states, including background facts, history & government, social customs & lifestyle, religion, economy, holidays, education, transportation, and even recipes!
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Explora
Explora is a dedicated search interface for students that covers all of our EBSCO databases. A simple search quickly delivers relevant results, including articles, essays, and primary source documents.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of over 800 recent reference books in electronic format, covering the arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, law, medicine, science, and much more. Search by keyword across the entire collection, browse by topic, or select an individual book.
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Mango Languages
Mango Languages teaches real conversations in over 60 languages and makes it fun too! Free mobile apps, easy progress tracking and film based learning make it one of the most popular language learning programs.
Apps available in the App store for both iOS and Android devices.
Computers & Apps Just For Kids
Use these from home or anywhere with your Avon library card!
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AbdoZOOM Animals
Young readers will explore 160 pages of fascinating and interactive animal content in depth! Animals can be easily filtered by geography, habitat, and classification. Topic tabs feature overviews, characteristics, life cycles, feeding habits, personality traits, history, and more. With read-along audio, beginning readers can go on an adventure with their favorite animals!
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AbdoZOOM Biographies
With 160 compelling biographies to choose from, young readers will learn about the lives of important people and their contributions. Each biography is broken down into easy-to-read, chronological sections, focusing on each person’s impact, early life, rise to fame, breakthrough, legacy, and more. Enjoy a diverse list of important figures from yesterday and today, including inventors, explorers, entertainers, athletes and activists.
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AbdoZOOM STEAM
Young readers can explore more than 100 topics through the lens of how they relate to Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. Each topic is broken down into sections about the five STEAM categories. Plus, a special art project helps spur creativity. With read-along audio and colorful pictures, this database is a great introduction into the wide world of STEAM!
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BookFlix
BookFlix is an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction from Children’s Press and other trusted Scholastic imprints. It is published by Scholastic Inc.
Check these out at the library!
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Launchpads
Interactive tablets with games for kids on a wide range of subjects.
Check it out for 3 weeks.
The Amazing Castle™ Comes to Avon Library
PRESS RELEASE FROM: The Avon Free Public Library
Contact: Kari Ann St. Jean Date: January 30, 2018
Phone: 860-673-9712 x 209
The Amazing Castle™ Comes to Avon Library
The Avon Free Public Library is pleased to announce the arrival of The Amazing Castle™ – a magical place where visitors can become inhabitants of a castle village! Created by the Minnesota Children’s Museum and making its first appearance in Connecticut, families and children can learn community values while playing in this interactive exhibit.
The free exhibit will be open 10 a.m.- 8 p.m. Mondays, Tuesday, and Thursdays; Wednesdays from 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays; 10 a.m.- 4:30 p.m., and Sundays from 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. through April.
“Bringing this exhibit to Avon gives families the opportunity to experience something unique, imaginative and creative in a library setting,” Children’s and Teen Services Manager Kari Ann St. Jean said.
The exhibit features eight themed areas where children can don costumes and engage in role-playing by becoming lords and ladies, villagers and even a court jester. Visitors can try their hands in royal workshops where a blacksmith, tailor, gardener, cook and others work and visit a tower where a sleeping dragon resides.
Upon entering the castle, visitors will find graphic panels that introduce Lord Ben and Lady Evolent and the castle community. A large book that tells the castle’s story is nearby for visitors to read.
Children can play with a castle-inspired dollhouse and build their own fortress out of “stone” blocks. Friends and family can take a seat at the royal table in the Great Hall while children prepare a meal using food from the royal pantry and garden. Then they can become castle entertainers in the royal puppet theater and dress up in costumes to model in a distorted mirror. Before leaving the library, children can try to wake Herald the Dragon. If successful, Herald will greet visitors before falling back asleep.
The Amazing Castle™ exhibit was created by the Minnesota Children’s Museum with funding from Curtis and Marjorie Nelson and The Curtis L. Carlson Family Foundation. It’s appearance at Avon Library is sponsored by the Friends of the Avon Library and Carmon Funeral Home with special thanks to the Town of Avon Public Works Department.
For further information, please contact Kari Ann St. Jean on 860-673-9712 or log onto www.avonctlibrary.info
Children’s Manager Kari Ann’s Pick
The drawing lesson : a graphic novel that teaches you how to draw / Mark Crilley (2016 children’s graphic novel, J Graphic Crilley)
An accomplished graphic novelist with a huge YouTube following due to his drawing instruction videos presents this one-of-a-kind instruction experience in a narrative graphic novel format that follows one aspiring young artist and his reluctant mentor who provides step-by-step lessons and drawing exercises.
Children’s Manager Kari Ann’s Pick
An eagle in the snow / Michael Morpurgo (2017 children’s fiction, F Morpurgo)
When the train he is riding on takes shelter in a dark tunnel during a bombing during World War II, a young boy fleeing 1940 Germany learns from a fellow passenger the story of how the man was once a British soldier who met a young Adolf Hitler and might have prevented World War II.