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Libraries Rock!
Summer Reading Club
June 11 - August 31
- Our Summer Reading Club is open to Wood-Ridge residents from birth to age 12.
- Visit the Library to pick up your reading log and stickers to get started!
- Read, or be read to, for 30 minutes per day.
- Read whatever you like!
- Record each day of reading on your reading log with the stickers that we provide.
- After every 5 days of reading, bring your reading log to the Library to collect your prize!
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Looking for Required Reading books?
Before you buy, check out our selection of required reading books for Wood-Ridge Schools Grades 4-12.
Grades K-3 may choose their own books. Our children's collection is stocked with lots of great choices!
Bring your library card!
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Jester Jim
The Jester Jim Show
Wood-Ridge Intermediate School
Friday, July 13
7:00pm
Back by popular demand...juggling, beatboxing, comedy. You and your family will be talking about Jester Jim's wild antics for weeks! Come see why Jester Jim was voted the
Best Family Show by
Entertainer America.
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Grins and Grins
Catchy Comedy!
Wood-Ridge Intermediate School
Friday, July 20
7:00pm
Join us for this fast-paced variety show featuring magic, circus skills and madcap madness!
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LuAnn Adams
The Rabbit in the Moon and Other Marvelous Tales for a Midsummer Night
Wood-Ridge Intermediate School
Friday, July 27
7:00pm
Join LuAnn Adams on a warm, starry night and hear tales of tricksters, truth-tellers and dreamers! Delightful tales, including the story of the kind Moon Rabbit who gives a most beautiful gift from his heart.
"The storyteller LuAnn Adams is a bit of an alchemist herself, turning an ordinary room into a fantastical landscape as she relates her vivid tales."
The New York Times
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Crabgrass Puppet Theatre
The Pirate, the Princess and the Pea
Wood-Ridge Intermediate School
Friday, August 3
7:00pm
Pirate lore meets fairy tale in this swashbuckling pirate and princess adventure story. Cast away on this thrilling voyage!
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Tanglewood Marionettes
Sleeping Beauty
Wood-Ridge Intermediate School
Friday, August 10
7:00pm
Each scene of this beloved classic is brought to life with beautifully hand-crafted marionettes.
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We welcome back Art Kids Academy, who will present a summer series of free art workshops for kids ages 7-12. In keeping with this year's summer theme of Libraries Rock! all of the art projects are inspired by music.
Wood-Ridge Senior Center
Monday, July 9
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7:00 - 8:00pm
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Cubist Guitar Collage
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Monday, July 16
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7:00 - 8:00pm
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Kandinsky Rhythm
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Monday, July 23
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7:00 - 8:00pm
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Pop Art Music
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Monday, July 30
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7:00 - 8:00pm
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Picasso's Three Musicians
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Monday, August 6
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7:00 - 8:00pm
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Watercolor Sheet Music |
Please select the date(s) for which you would like to register.
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Yoga Storytime with Miss Danielle
Join Miss Danielle for stories, stretching and simple yoga poses. Children ages 2-5 and their caregivers are warmly invited to attend.
Wednesday, June 27
10:00am and 11:00am
Registration in progress.
Wednesday, July 11
10:00am and 11:00am
Registration opens on June 20.
Wednesday, July 25
Registration opens on July 4.
Wednesday, August 1
10:00am and 11:00am
Registration opens on July 11.
Wood-Ridge Civic Center, upper level
Please use entrance at 495 Highland Avenue.
Please select either the 9:30am or the 10:15am session. Each child is limited to one session per date. Please register each child individually.
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Paws to Read
Wood-Ridge Memorial Library
Monday, June 11
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6:00 - 7:00pm
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Monday, June 25
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6:00 - 7:00pm
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Monday, July 9
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6:00 - 7:00pm
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Monday, July 23
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6:00 - 7:00pm
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Monday, August 13
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6:00 - 7:00pm
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Monday, August 27
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6:00 - 7:00pm
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Young readers wanted! Children ages 5 and up are warmly invited to register for a 15-minute session to read to Rodney, our visiting certified therapy dog. Therapy dogs provide a safe, nurturing experience for emergent readers to practice their literacy skills. Rodney is a great listener!
To register, please call the Library at 201.438.2455.
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Music with Miss Nita
Let's celebrate summer with songs, rhymes, movement, and instrument play! For ages 6 months - 5 years.
Friday, July 13
9:30am and 10:15am
Registration opens on June 22.
Friday, July 20
9:30am and 10:15am
Registration opens on June 29.
Friday, July 27
Registration opens on July 6.
Friday, August 3
9:30am and 10:15am
Registration opens on July 13.
Friday, August 10
9:30am and 10:15am
Registration opens on July 20.
Friday, August 17
9:30am and 10:15am
Registration opens on July 27.
Wood-Ridge Civic Center, lower level
Please use entrance at 495 Highland Avenue.
Please select either the 9:30am or the 10:15am session. Each child is limited to one session per date. Please register each child individually.
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Story Time and Craft with Miss Sharon
Wood-Ridge Memorial Library
Join Miss Sharon for stories and a craft! Children and their caregivers are warmly invited to attend.
Saturday, July 14
Thursday, August 16
11:00am
Just for Kindergarteners! Let's get ready for the first day of school and meet some new friends!
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Take a break this summer with a visit to a museum or garden!
Borrow a free admission pass from the Library and visit one of the fabulous museums or gardens right in our backyard!
See below for more details and the button to reserve a pass.
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Museum Pass Program
The Wood-Ridge Memorial Library lends free admission passes to many NJ and NYC museums.
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American Museum of Natural History*
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Aviation Hall of Fame & Museum of New Jersey
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Children's Museum of Manhattan
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Grounds for Sculpture
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Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
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Montclair Art Museum
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The Museum of Modern Art
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Museum of the City of New York
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Newark Museum
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The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio)
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Passes may be borrowed by any Wood-Ridge resident, age 18 and over, with a Wood-Ridge Memorial Library card in good standing.
Passes are loaned for three days, and may be returned to the Book Drop when the Library is closed. For more details, please call the Library at 201.438.2455 or click below.
*American Museum of Natural History
While supplies last, each adult Wood-Ridge Memorial Library card holder, with a card in good standing, may receive two free admission vouchers per year. Vouchers expire 12/31/18 and do not need to be returned to the Library.
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Library Hours
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10am - 9pm |
| Tuesday |
10am - 9pm |
| Wednesday |
10am - 9pm |
| Thursday |
10am - 9pm |
| Friday |
10am - 5pm |
| Saturday |
10am - 3pm |
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Wood-Ridge Memorial Library
231 Hackensack Street
Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075
201.438.2455
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