The Summer Challenge is Back

This June the weather is heating up but so is the competition! The Pratt’s annual program, Summer Challenge, returns June 12 to August 14 at all Pratt Libraries. This year’s theme is A Universe of Stories.

Don’t miss out on the chance to win prizes, while exploring the joy of reading. The free program is a great way for students to avoid the “summer slide”, the loss of academic skills during summer vacation. The program is open to all ages! Kids, teens, and adults can participate so go ahead and sign up the family.

We have programs designed for different age groups:

Join in the fun now!
Register online at prattlibrary.beanstack.org, or ask a librarian for help at any Pratt Library location.


D-Day 75th Anniversary: WWII Books

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, often referred to as D-Day. The prolific day in history was the starting point for the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Did you know that D-Day was the largest joint military operation ever undertaken?

Learn more about the events and time period with these fiction and nonfiction picks.

Agent Zigzag
By Ben Macintyre
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Blood of Victory By Alan Furst
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China Dolls
By Lisa See
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Crossing the Borders of Time By Leslie Maitland
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Double Cross
By Ben Macintyre

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Dunkirk
By Joshua Levine

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Eisenhower in War and Peace
By Jean Edward Smith
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Number the Stars
By Lois Lowry
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The Book of Aron
By Jim Shepard
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The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
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The Boy in Striped Pajamas By John Boyne
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The End
By Ian Kershaw
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The Pacific
By Hugh Ambrose

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The Ship of Brides
By Jojo Moyes
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The Wives of Los Alamos
By TaraShea Nesbit

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Those Who Save Us
By Jenna Blum

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Twelve Desperate Miles
By Tim Brady
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Unbroken
By Laura Hillenbrand
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Uprooted
By Albert Martin Download | Listen

When Books Went to War
By Molly Guptill Manning
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