Are you looking for a way to broaden your reading horizons this year? It’s not too late to participate in the Massachusetts Center for the Book’s 2023 Reading Challenge. Each month features a new prompt to help you choose something new and unique to read. The APL is a Center for the Book reading partner, […]
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Tween and Teen programs this spring!
Even though winter is still with us, the APL is planning for spring (and summer) programs for tweens and teens! We’ve started adding some new programs and some old favorites to the calendar. If you’ve got a kid in 5th-12th grades take a look at what is coming up! Our Tween/Teen Coordinator Meghan Witherell can’t […]
Slam Cancer 2022 Call for Submissions
We had such a wonderful time together last year, we’re doing it again! The Attleboro Public Library and the Relay For Life of Greater Attleboro, a team fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, are planning their second poetry-essay reading to raise community awareness about cancer. Organizers invite people to share their poems or essays of […]
Attleboro’s First Poet Laureate
The Attleboro Public Library and Attleboro’s 1ABC committee is pleased to announce that Briana Serradas has been named the city’s first Poet Laureate. Serradas, 22, is a lifelong resident of Attleboro. She attended the Foxborough Regional Charter School and earned degrees from Vassar College in Political Science and English before returning to the Commonwealth where […]