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Has your child registered for Shelton Libraries’ Summer Reading Program 2026?

Theme: Step Right Up and…READ!

We use the digital reading platform: Beanstack.

Link is in the Comments.

Read, Log Read Time, Earn Virtual Prize Tickets!

Every Friday a Prize Drawing Winner is selected ri win a prize per reading level.

Winners will be contacted by phone.

3-Children’s Reading Levels:

Ages: 0-4 years old.

Grades: Kindergarten through 6th grade.

Grades: 7th grade through 12 th grade.

Summer Reading UPDATE at Tue. 6/23, 2:38 PM

Shelton Libraries’ Summer Reading 2026

Theme: “Step Right Up and READ!” 🎪🎢🎡📖

AGES: 0-4 years old

27 Readers

160 Earned Reading Badges

2864 Minutes Read = 47. 7 Hours Read
WOW!

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GRADES: Kindergarten through 6th Grades

89 Readers

690 Earned Reading Badges

18824 Minutes Read = 313.7 Hours Read

INCREDIBLE!

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GRADES: 7th Grade through 12 Grade

13 Readers

75 Earned Reading Badges

3644 Minutes Read = 60.7 Hours Read

AMAZING!

July Plumb Children’s Program Registrations OPEN today, Tuesday, 6/23 at noon here.

Link in Comments.

Thank you for your interest.

Busy couple of days:
Thursday, 6/18: Crafty kids joined me
at Plumb Memorial Library to make their own papermache turtles! Special thanks to their grown-ups for rolling up their sleeves & helping their children succeed with this project.
I also appreciated the clean-up help too!

Friday, 6/19:
Week 1 of Summer Reading is complete!

Prize Drawing Winners for Week 1 are:

Ages-0-4 years old: Miss Lily
She won the Mo Willems: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Magentic Tiles Set. 🚌

Grades-K-6: Miss Coco
She won 13-1 STEM Robot Kit.🤖

🎉Congratulations to both of them. 🎉
Prize Drawing Winners have been contacted by phone.

We currently have 101 Summer Readers
ages 0-4 years old AND grades Kindergarten through 6th.

Together they have read & logged
over 14,000 minutes
from Fri. 6/12-Sat. 6/20 at 3 pm!!

That’s awesome. 🎉🎉

Saturday, 6/20:
Our friends from New Haven Symphony Orchestra came to Plumb today for an “Instrument Petting Zoo.”

Trumpet Musician, Ms. Katie & Educational Music Director, Ms. Caitlin enthusiastically demonstrated playing many instruments & teaching participants about trumpet mutes, “colors”, & then were allowed to “test” out the instruments too!

Special thanks to Ms. Katie, Ms, Caitlin and
our favorite library friend, Mr. Robert S Wood for all helping to make this a family fun musical experience!

Thank you to all those who joined us this week and to our Summer Readers too!

See you at the library! 📚📖😊

Happy to share Friends of the Shelton Libraries have recently voted to purchase
a 2nd museum pass to
the popular Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo
for both Plumb Library’s Children’s Dept.
AND
Huntington Branch Library Kids and Teens Dept. too.

We sincerely appreciate their continued support of Shelton Libraries and for providing this tremendous savings to a local family attraction to the many families who will borrow these library passes too. 💕💵

Each Shelton library will soon
have 2- Museum Passes to the
CT’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport, CT.

As previously mentioned, library museum passes from Shelton Libraries must be borrowed on a CT Adult library card.

No reservations, first come and first served.

Only ONE museum pass from Shelton can be borrowed on an Adult library card at a time.

Museum pass must be borrowed in-person and then returned in 2-days to the same
Shelton library it was borrowed from originally to a librarian at the check-out desk.

There is a $5 fee for everyday a
Shelton Museum Pass is returned late.
**Please be considerate when using a
Shelton Library museum pass.

Once again a HUGE Thank You to the Friends of the Shelton Libraries for continuing to generously fund these Library Museum Passes.

🎉🎉NEW Children’s Books available
at Plumb Memorial Library’s Children’s Department to borrow with a CT library card.

Plumb Memorial Library
will be open tomorrow, Friday, 6/19:
from 9 AM-5 PM
AND…
also on
Saturday, 6/20: 9 AM-3 PM
**Did you hear the New Haven Symphony Orchestra will be here at the library on Saturday, 6/20 and they are hosting an “Instrument Petting Zoo” at 10 am
for kids 3 years olds-12 years old !
Registration required for each child
and link in Comments.
📚📖🎉📚📖🎉🎶🎸🥁🎹🎺🎻🎵🎼

NEW Children’s Books available to borrow with a CT library card from Plumb Memorial Library’s Children’s Department.

We are open the remainder of this week:
Today, Thursday, 6/18 9 AM-7 PM
Friday, 6/19 9 AM-5 PM
Saturday, 6/20 9 AM-3 PM

See you then. 📚📖👍

Summer Vacation! Woo Hoo!!
Now what can we do with our kids??

What about visiting a local CT attraction at a discount or better yet for free?

Happy to share Plumb Memorial Library
AND Huntington Branch Libraries’ Children’s Departments have museum passes
an Adult can borrow with a CT Adult library card.

Museum Passes are on a first come, first served basis.

No Reservations.

Only one pass can be borrowed at a time.

Borrowing time for a Museum Pass is for 2-Days.

Plumb and Huntington’s Museum Passes must be borrowed in person with
a CT Adult library card
AND also must also be returned in person
to the borrowing Shelton library to a librarian at the desk before that Shelton library closes for the day.

Shelton Libraries’ Museum Passes are generously sponsored
by Friends of the Shelton Libraries.

👀Look 👀in Comments for a link to our website for a list of our Museum Passes, policies, specific museum details & specific discounts too.

Thank you to our very generous
Shelton Libraries’
Summer Reading 2026 Sponsors!