4/15/2025
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Announcing the Wissahickon Area Poetry Contest!
WHERE WE BELONG: CELEBRATING THE POETRY OF HOME
Exploring the themes of Home, Hometown, Community and Belonging.
Who may participate? All children, teens and adults may submit their poems. Those who live within the Wissahickon-Ambler Library service communities are especially encouraged. There are three prize categories: Child, Teen and Adult. You may submit your work between October 15 and February 15.
A Poetry Reading and Celebration will be held at the Ambler Library on April 26, 2025, from 1 pm - 4 pm. Please join us to celebrate our local poets!
For more information and submission guidelines, visit our Poetry Contest page.
National Geographic Magazine is now available online
Provided by PowerLibrary, this iconic monthly publication provides unparalleled, in-depth coverage of society, cultures, nature, science, technology, travel, geography, and more -- making it an essential resource for educators and students as well as general readers. This resource include complete, unlimited access to the magazine main content through 2020 -- every article from every issue, each fully searchable through an intuitive interface.
Scholastic Teachables - This resource provides teacher and homeschool supports, leveled mini books, and leveled learning collections. From lesson plans in every subject to assessments, bilingual mini books, and differentiated skill and activity sheets, these high-quality, ready-to-use resources, created and vetted by teachers will save you countless hours of searching for reliable content. To access this resource, you must either be inside the library OR using your library barcode number to log in when outside the library.
Top Ten Print Non-fiction
- The let them theory: a life-changing tool that millions of people can't stop talking about, by Mel Robbins
- The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness, by Jonathan Haidt
- The unexpurgated code: a complete manual of survival and manners, by J. P. Donleavy
- Inner excellence: train your mind for extraordinary performance and the best possible life, by Jim Murphy
- How to win at travel, by Brian Kelly
- The 5 types of wealth: a transformative guide to design your dream life, by Sahil Bloom
- Raising hare: a memoir, by Chloe Dalton
- Abundance, by Ezra Klein
- Everything is tuberculosis: the history and persistence of our deadliest infection, by John Green
- The next day: transitions, change, and moving forward, by Melinda Gates
Are you researching the EPA Superfund site in Ambler? You may access the EPA documents about the Ambler Asbestos Piles from our Community Links page.
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