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The Summer Reading Adventure has concluded!

Kia ora readers and writers, quest-takers, and Adventurers of all stripes! The 2023/24 Summer Reading Adventure is officially over, and it’s fair to say that we have been absolutely blown away by your exploits over the summer. We will be announcing our Grand Prize winners over the next week or so, so do keep an eye out on our Kids Blog and on our social media for more on this!

For more information about everything you got up to over the summer (and some fun stats!) check out our blog post.

Regular events are back!

The school term has started, which means that all of our regular library programmes have also started for the year! Are you ready to get back to Rocking and Rhyming? Has your creative side been itching for the return of CRAFTerschool? Maybe you’d like to explore some of our library robotics gear at a Tinker or Tech Time?

Head over to the What’s On page to learn more about our regular library programmes, and check out the Event Calendar for dates and times at your local branch.

Sleuth & Solve by Victor Escandell is a legitimately fun book aimed at 8–12 year-olds where young detectives must use their powers of imagination, creativity, and logic to answer a number of “mind-twisting mysteries”.

The mysteries, ranging from missing exam questions to murder, are light-hearted in tone and accompanied by cartoon drawings and a solution hidden behind a glued-on flap. Each mystery is rated from very easy to very difficult and given a points value to encourage some friendly game play, either solo or with friends and family. The second book in this series, Sleuth & Solve: Science requires STEM concepts to solve the mysteries, and we’ve recently put in an order for Sleuth & Solve: History and Sleuth & Solve: Spooky, which we know the many fans of this series (including us librarians!) will be excited to see in our branches soon.

National Geographic Kids

Discover the world in a way you've never seen before - National Geographic Kids will take you on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. National Geographic Kids includes the complete run of the magazine from 2009 to the present, as well as books, videos, and images.

To access this archive of adventure, just sign in with your library barcode number and 4-digit PIN.

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