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Award Winning Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction: The Last Cuentista, Night Owls, and The Darkness Outside Us

The Last Cuentistaby Donna Barba HigueraThe Last Cuentista won the prestigious Newbery Medal and Pura Belpré Award in 2022. This post apocalyptic Middle Grade Novel starts just as comet is scheduled to hit and cause catastrophic damage to the earth. Petra's parents want her to follow in their footsteps and study science, but she longs to be a storyteller, like her abuelita (grandmother)....

Award Winning Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction: The Last Cuentista, Night Owls, and The Darkness Outside Us The Last Cuentistaby Donna Barba HigueraThe Last Cuentista won the prestigious Newbery Medal and Pura Belpré Award in 2022. This post apocalyptic Middle Grade Novel starts just as comet is schedule…

All Hoboken Public Library locations will be closed this Friday, June 19 in honor of Juneteenth.
We'll be back to regular hours on Saturday, June 20. In the meantime, our full suite of digital resources remains available 24/7 at hobokenlibrary.org.

Sensational Speculative Fiction: Heaven’s Graveyard and Wildflower

Heaven's Graveyardby Grace CurtisHeaven's Graveyard is an intriguing historic fantasy mystery. In the story Coda or Cod as she prefers to go by is an archeologist working far from the place of her birth, which she left behind along with her childhood love, Lark, after a family scandal. When she receives a message from an old friend promising revelations about a mythic heroine, that she always believed may have been a real person, Cod rushes home despite war brewing in the surrounding lands, only to discover that he has passed away under what she believes are mysterious circumstances....

Sensational Speculative Fiction: Heaven’s Graveyard and Wildflower Heaven’s Graveyardby Grace CurtisHeaven’s Graveyard is an intriguing historic fantasy mystery. In the story Coda or Cod as she prefers to go by is an archeologist working far from the p…

Look at these faces. 😍
Our neighbors across the BCCLS network are already out here Stamping Their Way Around BCCLS -- and we want to see YOU in the mix.

Pick up your scavenger hunt form at 500 Park Avenue or 124 Grand Street, hit the road, and collect stamps at libraries across Bergen, Essex, Hudson, and Passaic counties. Visit three or more and you could win a $50 Visa gift card.

This scavenger hunt ends August 15. See you at the library!
📍 500 Park Avenue & 124 Grand Street | hobokenlibrary.org/events

Calling all explorers!
Stamp Your Way Around BCCLS -- runs June 15 through August 15, and Hoboken Public Library is one of your stops.

Here's how it works: pick up a scavenger hunt form, visit BCCLS libraries across Bergen, Essex, Hudson, and Passaic counties, and get your form stamped at each one as proof of your visit. Visit three (3) libraries or more and you could win a $50 Visa gift card.

You can get stamped at both Hoboken Public Library locations: the Main Library at 500 Park Avenue and the Grand Street Branch at 124 Grand Street. Make us your starting point or just one stop on a bigger adventure -- either way, happy hunting!

📍 500 Park Avenue & 124 Grand Street | hobokenlibrary.org/events

The world's biggest soccer tournament is here -- and we can watch together!

Library F.C. is Hoboken Public Library's free community soccer viewing party series, bringing the beautiful game to our Small Program Room and Garden all tournament long.

First up: Mexico vs. South Africa on Thursday, June 11 at 3:00 PM.
📍 500 Park Avenue, Hoboken
Small Program Room and Garden

Whether you've followed soccer your whole life or you're just getting swept up in the excitement, there's a seat here for you. Light refreshments provided, all ages welcome, and best of all -- completely free.

A few things to know: screenings are held during library operating hours. If a match extends into overtime and conflicts with our closing time, supporters will need to continue watching elsewhere.

Check our events calendar at hobokenlibrary.org/events for upcoming match dates throughout the tournament.

Summer Reading is officially kicking off this Wednesday -- and we're celebrating in the park!

We've got story time, crafts, music, and raffle prizes lined up, plus some extra fun:
🍪 Make ice cream sandwiches with TAB volunteer Emma
🔘 Design a custom button with the Hoboken Public Library Makerspace team
🎨 Art in the Park with Ms. Brenda
⚽ Panini sticker trading table -- bring your duplicate stickers and swap with fellow collectors in celebration of the biggest sporting event in the world

All supplies are first come, first served, so get there early! While you're there, learn all about this summer's Mile Square Reading Challenge and everything the library has planned for the season.

Wednesday, June 10 | 3:30-4:15 PM | Church Square Park
Free and open to all ages.
Registration encouraged online at hobokenlibrary.org/events
📍 500 Park Avenue, Hoboken

Celebrate Pride with LGBTQ Reads: The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones and Father Material

The Unmagical Life of Briar Jonesby Lex CroucherThe Unmagical Life Life of Briar Jones is the latest by Lex Croucher. Briar and Seb were inseparable as children, but when wealthy, privileged Seb gets picked to attend an elite private school rumored to teach magic, Briar is heartbroken and their friendship crumbles. They don't reunite till Briar gets a summer job at the school, cleaning out an old attic that has been used as a dumping ground for unwanted items....

Celebrate Pride with LGBTQ Reads: The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones and Father Material The Unmagical Life of Briar Jonesby Lex CroucherThe Unmagical Life Life of Briar Jones is the latest by Lex Croucher. Briar and Seb were inseparable as children, but when wealthy, privileged Seb ge…

Have you thought about what happens if you or someone you love needs long-term care? It's not a comfortable question, but it's an important one.

This past Wednesday, we hosted a free seminar with Andrew D. Lee, FSCP, CLTC of New York Life Insurance Company and Heidi Conlin, Esq. of Marciano Law. A full room of Hoboken residents came ready to learn about long-term care insurance, wills, trusts, and estate planning.

Miss it? Check hobokenlibrary.org for upcoming programs. This is what your library is here for.
📍 500 Park Avenue, Hoboken

We loved having YA author Ona Gritz visit Hoboken Public Library! Seeing kids write letters back to her character Mimi was pure magic.
Thank you, Ona!