New Titles for Children: Back-To-School Edition!

Posted on September 4, 2018August 27, 2018 by Kiirstn Pagan

It’s that time of year! These new books, DVDs, and online resources will help prepare your kids to get back in the classroom.

Children’s Books About School

Children’s Reference Books For English

Children’s Reference Books For Math

See a full list of new children’s titles here.

Watch and learn with these educational DVDs

Practice reading online with our new online resource, BookFLIX

Use BookFLIX at your local library or at home! With colorful animation, rich audio, and interactive games, BookFLIX is a perfect resource to engage and support readers from Kindergarten to 3rd grade.

BookFLIX includes:

Classic video storybooks matched with a related nonfiction eBook
Spanish language versions of many pairs of matched videos and eBooks
Read Aloud support
Educational games and activities
Recommended, age-appropriate links to allow students to extend their learning on a subject
Meet the author section

Try it out now here!

Just in time for Back-To-School: Prepare your kids for the classroom with BookFLIX

Posted on August 29, 2018August 7, 2018 by Kiirstn Pagan

Introducing BookFLIX, Enoch Pratt’s newest electronic resource for kids in grades K-3

Use BookFLIX at your local library or at home! With colorful animation, rich audio, and interactive games, BookFLIX is a perfect resource to engage and support readers from Kindergarten to 3rd grade.

BookFLIX includes:

Classic video storybooks matched with a related nonfiction eBook
Spanish language versions of many pairs of matched videos and eBooks
Read Aloud support
Educational games and activities
Recommended, age-appropriate links to allow students to extend their learning on a subject
Meet the author section

Try it out now here!

Want To Get Away? Check out these new titles on travel

Posted on August 16, 2018August 1, 2018 by Kiirstn Pagan

A good book can transport you to another world and these new titles make it even easier to get away. Read on to see forthcoming titles about travel. Click on the book cover to reserve your copy today.

New Fiction Titles on Travel

Click through the following links to see a full list of new fiction, mystery, and scifi & fantasy titles.

New Nonfiction Titles on Travel

See a full list of new nonfiction titles here.

New Young Adult Titles on Travel

See a full list of young adult titles here.

New Children’s Titles on Travel

See a full list of new children’s titles here.

Overdrive Magazines are now available

Posted on August 6, 2018August 2, 2018 by Kiirstn Pagan

We now have access to Overdrive Magazines! The full collection of magazines boasts fifty popular titles, including favorites like The Atlantic, Food Network Magazine, and O, The Oprah Magazine. These titles are always available with no limit to the number of checkouts, though titles are checked out for a limited time period (7, 14 or 21 days). Browse the new magazine collection now here.

And don’t forget, Overdrive features a wide array of popular eBooks and downloadable audio books for adults, teens, and children, including beginning readers.

Visit the Overdrive website or download the Libby app to your mobile device and log in with your Pratt Library card to start browsing!

Coming soon to our shelves: Fresh picks for August

Posted on August 2, 2018August 1, 2018 by Kiirstn Pagan

Spend the last few weeks of summer with these exciting new additions to our collection. Click on the book cover to reserve your copy today.

Looking for more from your reading experience? Take the opportunity to meet authors Kimberla Lawson Roby and Alexia Arthurs at Enoch Pratt’s Writers LIVE series. Their new titles Better Late Than Never and How to Love a Jamaican: Stories hit shelves this month.

Author Kimberla Lawson Roby joins us Wednesday, August 8 at 6:30pm at the Central Library to discuss her new book Better Late Than Never. Roby is the New York Times bestselling author of the highly acclaimed Curtis Black series. In the 15th and final title of the series, Curtis must face buried secrets from his past as he struggles to understand and help his youngest daughter, twelve-year-old Curtina, who is quickly becoming a problem child. Who could have known that their deepest wounds would come from within?

Author Alexia Arthurs comes to Writers LIVE on Monday, August 6 at 6:00pm at the Waverly Branch to discuss her new book How to Love a Jamaican: Stories. Alexia Arthurs navigates tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret to extraordinary effect in her debut story collection about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life.

Read on for more new titles!