The Main Library will be closing early at 6:00pm on Tuesday, December 24. 

The Main Library will be open with limited services from 12:00-4:00pm on Wednesday, December 25. 

The NNE Branch will be closed on Wednesday, December 25. 

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1000 Books Before Kindergarten Book Bags

To request a 1000 Books Before Kindergarten Book Bag:

  • Search "1000 books before kindergarten book bags" in our catalog and place a hold.
  • Ask at the youth desk.

Don't forget to register your child for our 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program!

 

Watershed Education Kits

Learn about protecting Lake Champlain with two new Library Watershed Education Kits: one for home science investigation (kit 1) and one for field exploration (kit 2). Thanks to a grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program, FFL teamed up with Lake Champlain Sea Grant  and Vermont Department of Libraries to provide these kits to 25 libraries in the Lake Champlain Watershed. The Watershed Education Kits provide all the supplies you need to conduct the experiments in the accompanying Watershed Education Challenge Booklet. The kits are listed among our STEAM kits below. 

STEAM Kits (Science Technology Engineering Arts Math)

To request a STEAM Kit:

Limit one kit per library card. STEAM Kits circulate for one week.

Take your STEAM explorations home with you! Each kit comes packed in a sturdy bin with a STEAM exploration, paired books, suggested activities as well as additional book recommendations that can be found at the library.

View STEAM Kits in our catalog

Current Kits include:

  • 3 Billy Goats Gruff STEM
  • Amazing Monarchs
  • Backyard Birds
  • Bananagrams
  • Blocks & Blueprints
  • Boomwhackers
  • Brain Flakes
  • Building Brick Challenge
  • Cardboard Box Engineering
  • Code and Go Robot Mouse & Maze
  • Construction Set
  • Dado Squares
  • Dash & Dot Robots
  • Electricity Science Kit
  • Energy Crisis
  • Flip 4
  • Frog & Pond
  • Gingerbread Friend
  • Gobblet
  • KEVA Construction and Bot Maze
  • Magna-Tiles
  • Magnet Explorations
  • Microscope Investigations
  • Minibeasts
  • Monopoly
  • Mystery Science
  • Newton's Antics Science Kit
  • Owl Exploration
  • Power Tiles Circuit Kit
  • Quarto
  • Rock & Mineral Investigation
  • Shut the Box
  • Singing Drum
  • Snap Circuits
  • Snap Circuits Jr.
  • Spirograph
  • Spirograph Jr.
  • Stop Animation
  • Story Time Chess
  • Tangrams
  • Toppling Dominoes
  • Trestle Tracks
  • Turing Tumble (marble-powered computer)
  • Watershed Model Kit 1
  • Watershed Explorer Kit 2
  • Your Amazing Body
  • Zoob Builderz

 

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Launchpads & Playaways 

Launchpads

  
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  • Sturdy tablets, pre-loaded with educational games for kids
  • Easy-to-use interface
  • Internet free--no downloading or Wi-Fi required!

Launchpads circulate for one week, and are shelved in the children's area. Check our catalog for Launchpad availability.

Visit Launchpad for help getting started, or call the youth desk at 802.865.7216.

Playaways

  
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  • Plug & play audiobooks--all you need are headphones!
  • Easily portable
  • Five available narration speeds & automatic bookmarking

Playaways circulate for three weeks, and are shelved with/near Books on CD in the Main Reading Room, the children's area, and the Teen Space. Check our catalog for Playaway availability.

Visit Playaway for help getting started, or call the Help Desk at 802.865.7217.

 

Want to browse lists of awesome books? Check out our Recommended Reading page for award-winners and lists curated by Fletcher Free Library staff.