You are invited…

June is a time for celebrations – for graduates and fathers (dads & grads), Juneteenth (June 19th), Pride Month, National Donut Day (first Friday), Flag Day (June 14th), Solstice (June 20th), and many more.

I would like to add one more day of celebration to your calendar – June 21st. This is when the Grafton Public Library will celebrate (and I mean celebrate!) our Children’s Room being re-opened. I know, I know – the Children’s Room has been open since last year. That is true, but by the time the Children’s Room re-opened in November, we were heading into numerous holidays and the colder weather was fast approaching – so, we decided it wasn’t the time for a proper celebration. That doesn’t mean that we didn’t want to celebrate the room re-opening, jus that it wasn’t the right time for it.

Well, the time is now!

Please join us for a celebration of the Children’s Room on Saturday, June 21st on the Grafton Common starting at 9:00 AM with a variety of inflated-bouncy houses and obstacle courses and other fun activities as well as a food truck – and then, at 1:00 PM a concert presented by Mr Kim! We will also have our wonderful Children’s Room staff present to lead the festivities. In the event of rain, the celebration will take place on July 12th.

And, with Summer on the way, if you are looking for something to do… let’s talk museum passes!

The Grafton Public Library has a number of passes (that number is 20, by the way) for you to borrow, providing free or reduced admission to many museums. If you are looking for a quick jaunt some weekend or are planning a “staycation” (neither staying at home, nor venturing too far away), I bet we have a museum pass that you will find interesting – Concord Museum, Ecotarium, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Old Sturbridge Village, Willard House and Clock Museum, and many more… Please visit the Museum Passes page on our website to reserve your next adventure.

And if you have a favorite museum that we do not have a pass for, let me know – perhaps we coud add it to our collection.

Tom O'Connell

We will be closed on Thursday, June 19 for the Juneteenth holiday.

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Friday: 9 AM - 6 PM

Saturday: 9 AM - 2 PM

Just as her father makes the wrenching decision to send her away for a chance at a better life, Claire Limyè Lanmè—Claire of the Sea Light—suddenly disappears. As the people of the Haitian seaside community of Ville Rose search for her, painful secrets, haunting memories, and startling truths are unearthed. In this stunning novel about intertwined lives, Edwidge Danticat crafts a tightly woven, breathtaking tapestry that explores the mysterious bonds we share—with the natural world and with one another.

Request a book, a large print book, a CD Audiobook, an e-book, or an eAudiobook.

12 Months 12 Books

The Grafton Public Library is participating in the Massachusetts Center for the Book Reading Challenge.

June's Challenge

Choose a book that spans multiple generations. Click here for some book recommendations for the month of June!

How the Challenge Works

• Choose a book that fits the monthly challenge from our display
• If you would like assistance in choosing a book, consider asking a GPL staff member for a recommendation.
• After you read, fill out this form to tell the Mass Center for the Book about what you read.
• Dedicated readers will be invited to a year-end celebration hosted by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

The Borrower Services and Reference staff invite you to

check out an item from our curated staircase displays in

Room 201 - Large Print/New Books.

No Holds. No Wait Lists. No Limits.

Enjoy unlimited access to thousands of age-appropriate digital graphic novels, manga, and picture books — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! Access ComicsPlus by clicking on this link.

See all of our upcoming events, including Children & Teens:

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around town:

Top 10 Books Requested in CW MARS

1. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
2. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
3. James by Everett Percival
4. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
5. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
6. The Wedding People by Alison Espach
7. Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
8. Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
9. The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
10. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Top 10 Movies Requested in

CW MARS

1. Anora
2. Outlander: Season 7
3. Black Bag
4. Severance: Season 1
5. Gladiator II
6. Conclave
7. Wicked
8. Last Breath
9. Flight Risk
10. Paddington in Peru

Check out the CW MARS OverDrive website for a great selection of eAudiobooks and eBooks.

The next scheduled Board of Library Trustees meeting is Wednesday, June 25 from 7-9 p.m. in Meeting Room A at the Grafton Municipal Center. The agenda will be posted on the Town of Grafton website: 

https://www.grafton-ma.gov/AgendaCenter/Board-of-Library-Trustees-Grafton-Public-9

The Friends of the Grafton Public Library will be taking donations on the first Friday and Saturday of the month. The Friends will be setting tables in the Friends Corner for people to leave the books on.  June's donation days are Friday, June 6 and Saturday, June 7.

Friends' gifts are available for purchase at the library.

Members can check the Friend's Facebook page for scheduled meetings.

https://www.facebook.com/GPLFriends

Join or renew your membership at www.friendsgpl.org/join. Questions? Please contact info@friendsgpl.org.