Summer Reading Throwback!
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Teens
Best of the American Girl books
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Childhood Favorite Reads
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Adults, General Info, Happy 250th Birthday, USA!, Kids, Parents, Teens
Summer Reading BINGO Help
Hello, Summer Readers! Jenna Dauer, Smithton PLD library director here! Staff have put together a few lists that can help
Anna’s YA Recommendation’s Around the Fifty States
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2026 Summer Reading Program
Smithton Public Library District’s2026 Summer Reading Program FOR AGES 0-100+! Visit the library to sign up the whole family, beginning
Photographer Stephen Kennedy’s Project: 618 Illinois Libraries Collection – Smithton Public Library District
Photographer Stephen Kennedy visited the Smithton Public Library on Wednesday, December 10, 2025 and took some great pictures. Click on
Winter Reading Program
December 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026 Patrons can visit the library to register in-person and pick up a reading
Adults, General Info, Parents, Teens
2024 Library Crawl
Do you enjoy visiting other libraries? Visit the library now to pick up your paper passport. The crawl will be
Adults, General Info, Parents, Teens
Fun Bookish Recommendations!
Have you ever wondered what librarians use and recommend for their reading time and book-ish accessories? We all know you need
Adults, General Info, Jenna Recommends, Parents, Teens
Free Classes – Resources for 2024
Want to learn a new skill? A new language? Upskill your work skills? Check out this (non-exhaustive) list of places where
A Christmas recommendation from Cinda:
Get inspired for the holiday! Read something you’ve never heard of before. Read something as old as you can find.
Magical Animation, vol 13
The Last Unicorn (1982) – United States rated PG Summary: When a young unicorn learns she may soon be the
Anime with Babies, vol 11
Tokyo Godfathers (2003) PG-13 Summary: The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite
Various Japanese anime for 13 and older and WHY, vol 6
Only Yesterday (1991) Summary: After living her whole life in the city, 27-year-old Taeko decides to visit her relatives in
Various Japanese anime, vol 5
Spirited Away (2001) Summary: When a young girl is trapped in a strange new world of spirits, she must call
Various Japanese anime, vol 4
My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Summary: Two young girls, 10-year-old Satsuki and her 4-year-old sister Mei, move into a house in
Favorites from Anywhere
I thought I was pulling together a selection of works not at all alike each other… but no, I really
Inventive YA Novels
Each of the following suggestions is an inventive and original concept with lots of running, hiding, seeking, fighting, and sometimes
Strength of Character
Cyrano |2021 Summary: This is a romantic historical musical version of the same classic story made completely attainable by Steve