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Check out these stats and our top title of 2020 below. 

• Physical material checkouts: 1,845,866
• Additions to physical collection:18,000 titles and 58,000 items, plus 15,570 magazines
• OverDrive:
  • Checkouts: 2,430,575
  • Patrons: 61,278 patrons; an increase of 22%
• Freegal:
  • Song Downloads: 76,007
  • Songs Streamed: 248,986
• Kanopy: 58,201 videos streamed
• Hoopla: 40,813 checkouts, movies and television mostly
• New cardholders during 2020: 26,215

Top 10 Adult Titles

• The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Guardians by John Grisham
• Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• The Giver of Stars: a Novel by Jojo Moyes
• A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci
• The Dutch House: a Novel by Ann Patchett
• Long Range by C.J. Box

Top 10 Young Adult Titles

• All the Impossible Things by Lindsay Lackey
• Ranger's Apprentice by John Flanagan
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
• Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
• Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
• Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini
• The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

Top 10 Children's Titles

• The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA by Brenda Woods
• A Long Walk to Water: A Novel by Linda Sue Park
• The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K Rowling
• Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
• Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever by Rachel Renée Russell
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
• Narwhal on a Sunny Night by Mary Pope Osborne
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: the Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney

Create your own work of art using the stickers and frame.

Before your child can learn to write, they must develop the small/fine motor skills which are used to grip a crayon/pencil. Peeling the back off the stickers and placing them in the frame provides your child with the opportunity to develop these skills.
To prepare young children for writing, provide them with opportunities to use their hands and fingers. This will help them later when they hold crayons and pencils.

• Open and close containers with lids
• Cut with child-safe scissors
• Finger paint with paint, shaving cream, yogurt, or pudding
• Use a paintbrush
• Play with play dough and clay—roll, smoosh, pat, pound, and use tools like popsicle sticks or stamps
• Lace Cheerios onto pipe cleaners
• Lace pipe cleaners into the holds on a colander
• Draw, scribble, or write with crayons, pencils, and markers
• Put together puzzles
• Build with small blocks

Supplies:

• Ruler (12" or 18" or 36") or measuring tape
• Yarn or string
• Scissor
• A stuffed animal or your pet

Directions:

1. Measure, as best you can, your pet or stuffed animal and determine its length in inches.
2. After you know how many inches, cut a piece of string or yarn the same length.
3. Take this piece of string and measure items around your house. How many cats (or hamsters or dogs, etc.) long is your kitchen? Your table? Your bed?

Please leave a comment below, tell us what you used to measure items around your house.

You can watch this project at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCU1Ks8mBf0