🧠🔬 Celebrate Maryland STEM Festival with books that inspire innovation, discovery, and imagination! Check out these titles: 📚 Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly 💡 Eureka! by Joy Hakim 💻 Careers in Information Technology by ReferencePoint Press 🌌 Black Holes by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano ⚙️ Hidden Systems by Dan Nott 🧬 Magnificent Minds by Pendred E. Noyce 📱 Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal 🧠 The History and Science of Vaccines by Toney Allman Find STEM-

We're throwing it back today with a message from last year's Teen Mental Health Week performer, The Queen Sheba. And teens are welcome to join Teen Mental Health Awareness Week activities at MCPL this first week of November! We're offering art, yoga, meditation, community resource information and more for teens, plus an opportunity to get involved with our year-round programs. Check out https://mcpl.link/teen-mental-health for specific events, and https://mcpl.link/teen-advisory-board for Teen A

👻 Spooky season stack alert! 🎃 Looking for Halloween reads that will thrill (but not too much)? Check out these kid-friendly chills from our shelves: 📚 You Can’t Hide — Dan Poblocki (Shadow House series) 👻 Wait Till Helen Comes — Mary Downing Hahn 🧛 Bunnicula Strikes Again! — James Howe 💀 Tales to Keep You Up at Night — Dan Poblocki ❄️ Dead Voices — Katherine Arden 🌲 Took — Mary Downing Hahn 🪶 Maddy Kettle: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch — Eric Orchard 🐉 Bera the One-Headed Troll — E

“I’ve always been an avid reader…We didn’t take vacations but the space that we spent was in our library.” Maryland Sen. @corymccray shares his appreciation for his mother prioritizing reading & libraries, his early win of the Race to Read, & what going to the main Baltimore Library to accept the prize meant to him as a child. Thanks to Sen. McCray for visiting the Rockville Memorial Library to share his story, his book, & inspiration from his journey as an electrician and an elected official. C

🎃 The Monster Flash is rolling into Montgomery County soon! ⚡️ Check it out up close and learn more about the planned Flash Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) network coming soon. 🚌✨ 📍 Where to find us: 👻 Sat, Oct. 25 | 10 a.m.–noon – Twinbrook Library Multilingual Story Hour, Rockville 👻 Sat, Oct. 25 | 2–4 p.m. – Germantown Library Bilingual Story Hour, Germantown 👻 Sun, Oct. 26 | noon–4 p.m. – HalloWheaton, Marian Fryer Town Plaza, Wheaton Montgomery County Public Libraries Montgomery County Public