2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Kids

CANCELLED: Debate Club (Gr. 6+)

UPDATE: This event has been cancelled due to anticipated weather conditions.

 

Join us for our monthly Debate Club! We start each meeting with a fun ice-breaker debate before splitting up into teams for a longer form debate. Participants may bring their own devices for research if they'd like, otherwise each team will be provided with an iPad and Laptop.

Maker's Day

Join the fun as East Brunswick Public Library celebrates everything STEAM (science/technology/engineering/arts and crafts/math) as we celebrate New Jersey Maker's Day on Saturday, March 22 from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.

We join schools and libraries statewide in celebrating hands-on learning. This year we are excited to share exhibits and displays from community experts. Some of them include:

Zora and Me and the Cursed Ground

A Fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.

Heart of a Samurai

 

In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.

Black Radishes

Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winner"Black Radishes" is a suspenseful WWII/Holocaust story, in which one boy learns what it means to be Jewish and French at a time when everything is changing. It is March of 1940. The French believe that their army can protect them from Nazi Germany. But is Paris a safe place for Jews? ...