It's NOT Too Late To Join The
Summer Reading Challenge!
  • Good news! There is still time to read, attend events, and complete activities for points before the 2024 Summer Reading Challenge ends on August 31. In fact, you can backdate your reading all the way to June 1 and put in all the reading you've already done!
  • Register and track your points in the READsquared app or on the READsquared webpage.
     
  • With your points, you can buy prizes from the READsquared prize store.
Book Donations for Teacher Shopping Day Event 
Donate a book. Change a life.
 
The South Lyon Educational Foundation is teaming up with the Lyon Township Public Library and Salem-South Lyon District Library to make sure our SLCS teachers have lots of great books for their classroom libraries this year.
 
Do you have any used books in good condition (pre-K – 12) that you’d like to donate? Please email perryrac@yahoo.com for a convenient porch pick-up. Donations will be accepted from now until Monday, August 21.
 
Together, we can support our kids and our schools!
 
Grow at the Library
Explore a fantastical forest in this exquisite and lyrical picture book that celebrates all trees.
From poplars to pines, alder, apple, peach, and plum, this rhyming story introduces the concept of orders of magnitude and celebrates the importance of planting different trees and preserving diverse ecosystems. Nurturing a new sapling is one of the first steps in growing hundreds, millions, even trillions of trees.
 
Trees have leaves that turn sunshine into food. Amazing birds know how to build nests, sing songs, hatch eggs, and fly. Dogs can move their ears to tell us how they feel, while fish are best at swimming, flashing like jewels. As for people, every person on Earth is different, each with their own thoughts and feelings.
August Youth and Teen Events
Nature's Nightlife with
Leslie Science Center
Wednesday, August 7, 2pm [FULL] or 4pm
Music and Movement
with Early On
Thursday, August 8, 10:30am
 
History Detectives
with Sloan-Longway
Saturday, August 10, 11am, 1pm, or 3pm
 
Young Writer's Club
Monday, August 12, 6pm
 
Lego Fun
Monday, August 19, 1:30pm or 6pm
Baffling Bill Magic Show
Tuesday, August 20, 2pm, 4pm OR 6pm
 
Meet a Therapy Dog
Wednesday, August 21, 10:30am-12:00pm
Craftapalooza
Thursday, August 22, 2pm or 6pm
 
Paws for Reading
Wednesday, August 28
6:30-6:45pm , 6:45-7pm
7-7:15pm , 7:15-7:30pm
7:30-7:45pm , 7:45-8pm
 
Toddler Yoga Storytime
Thursday, August 29, 10:30am
 
Free Math or Reading Assessments with
Kumon Learning Center South Lyon
  • Kumon Learning Center South Lyon is offering kids in Kindergarten through 12th grade free math or reading assessments! This will give parents and students valuable insights into where the student stands in their learning before beginning the new school year.
  • Assessments will be at LTPL on Saturday, August 17, between 10:30am and 4:30pm. Assessments will take place in 30 minute timeslots, and there will be 2 students testing per timeslot. The assessment will last 10-30 minutes (depending on the student's grade).
  • The type of assessment (math or reading) is up to the parents and/or students.
  • No need to bring anything, the library will provide pencils.
  • REGISTER FOR A TIMESLOT HERE.
  • Contact Kumon at cdawar@ikumon.com or 248-446-7722 with any questions.
A huge thank you to Kumon Learning Center South Lyon for being a Summer Reading Challenge 2024 sponsor! To find out more about Kumon Learning Center and what they offer, visit their website here.
 
 
Adventure To A New World
  
 
 
Kids Art Camp on Creativebug
Courtney Cerruti and her 9 year-old pal, Sophie, explore working with Lego Dots to make prints to create a self-portrait. Gather your favorite supplies and a big piece of paper and create fun and easy art by following along with Courtney and Sophie!
 
 
Fun Adventures From TumbleBooks!
She longed for adventure. So she left her home and ventured out into the wide world. The pleasures and perils she met proved plentiful: marauding pirates on the majestic seas, a ferocious lion under the bright lights of the big top, a mysterious stranger in an exotic and bustling bazaar. Yet in the face of such daunting danger, our heroine... She was brave... She was fearless... She was feathered... She was a chicken... A not-so-chicken chicken. Her name? Louise!
 
Adventurous Zoe Sophia and her dog, Mickey, embark on a whirlwind trip to Venice to visit her great aunt Dorothy Pomander. During her stay, Zoe Sophia sees the sites, explores the city and bonds with her wonderful, quirky aunt.
With DJ in your cabin, summer camp is full of surprises! Bad weather, bugs and boredom—DJ and the boys in Camp Lots-o-Fun's cabin six are starting to call it Camp Not-so-Fun. To make matters worse, one of the boys has it in for DJ. But DJ isn't about to let that bother him. His lively imagination and wit ensure there's never a dull moment.
Ease into the school year with activities
from Scholastic Teachables! 
 
Scholastic Teachables is an LTPL digital resource which provides worksheets, lesson plans, learning games, and more! Scholastic Teachables offers tons of printable activities for any subject: math, science, reading comprehension, STEM, writing, and beyond. Download printable lesson plans, reading passages, games and puzzles, clip art, bulletin board ideas, and skills sheets for kids in any grade!
 
August Take-and-Make Craft Kit
Lacing Sailboat Scene 
  • Sign up to receive a kit containing everything you need to make a Lacing Sailboat Scene.
  • The only supplies you will need from home are crayons, colored pencils, or markers.
  • Kits will be available to pick up inside the library beginning on Tuesday, August 13th.
  • If there is a waitlist, any kits not picked up by Tuesday, August 20th will be offered to families on the waitlist.
         REGISTER HERE.

Lyon Township Public Library
27005 Milford Rd.
South Lyon, Michigan 48178
(248) 437-8800

https://lyon.lib.mi.us/