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Ages 3 and Up

The library’s stuffed animals want to go on field trips! Check one out, bring them home, and add to their personal scrapbooks by writing about and taking pictures of the fun things you do together. When you’re at the library, you can visit the animals who have made it back to home base and see what they’ve been up to. Stuffed animals may be periodically rotated out based on condition.

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Attend monthly meetings, earn volunteer credits, have a say in library programming and collection decisions, and more!

Contact Teen Librarian Alex with any questions!

dobteen@wlsmail.org

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Join the Adult Lego Club!

Members will use our large collection of Lego pieces to make a unique creation according to the group theme or challenge!
Meetings:

Last Wednesday of each month from 6:30pm to 8:30pm in the Community room.

The first meeting will be on October 25th, 2023.

Register by emailing
dfadultlegoclub@gmail.com

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Fill out a brief form and Alex, the teen librarian, will recommend titles for you! All you have to do is pick them up.

Email teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org for more info.

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The Dobbs Ferry Public Library wants to offer more programming specifically for the homeschooled students in our community. Is there a program you wish we offered? Is there a particular day or time that works best for your schedule? Please fill out this form to let us know!

If you have any questions or comments, you can email Alex, the Teen Librarian (she/her), at teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org or call 914-231-3058. Thank you!

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For parents and caregivers of babies up to 24 months.

Join children’s librarian Gina to learn songs, fingerplays, and more that you can do with your baby.  Each meeting will leave time for open discussion and connection with other parents/caregivers.

Registration recommended but not required – email childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the Children’s Room to sign up.

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18 to 36 months.

Get your wiggles out with songs and stories with Ms. Gina!

Email childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the children’s room for information and to sign up.

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Visit the community room on Friday afternoons and play any of the wide selection of single and multi-player games on the library’s Switch!

Just drop in or email teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org to reserve your time slot. Time will be limited to 20 minutes when people are waiting.

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Ages 8 – 18

Programs full – waitlist only

Registration is required via this Google form: https://forms.gle/UdDW3BzGVV9Wm6V19. You are not registered until a librarian contacts you with confirmation and scheduling details.

Questions? Participants aged 8-12 can email children’s librarian Gina at childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, and participants aged 13-18 can email teen librarian Alex at teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org.

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Ages 3 +

Use your imagination to build something special with our giant stash of LEGOS!

Fridays all month long.

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Ages 8 – 18

Programs full – waitlist only

Registration is required via this Google form: https://forms.gle/UdDW3BzGVV9Wm6V19. You are not registered until a librarian contacts you with confirmation and scheduling details.

Questions? Participants aged 8-12 can email children’s librarian Gina at childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, and participants aged 13-18 can email teen librarian Alex at teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org.

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Lynn Schmeidler will present her new book, “Half-Lives”

• Reception at 7:00 p.m.
• The reading by Lynn Schmeidler will start at 7:30 and will be followed by an interview with Hastings resident Barbara Feinberg, creator and director of Story Shop.
• Book signing provided by Picture Book of Dobbs Ferry.

A playful debut short story collection imagining women’s lives in a world free of social limitations.

Amid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn Schmeidler’s debut short story collection, Half-Lives, is a humane, absurd, and timely collection of narratives centering on women’s bodies and psyches. Playful and experimental, these sixteen stories explore girlhood, sexuality, motherhood, identity, and aging in a world where structures of societal norms, narrative, gender, and sometimes even physics do not apply. The protagonists grapple with the roles they choose and with those that are thrust upon them as they navigate their ever-evolving emotional lives.

Half-Lives is the 2023 Rising Writer Prize winner, selected by Matt Bell.

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This program is run by Technochix and is only open to those who have completed one of our “Intro to Python” sessions.

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