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      • Headquarters, Manalapan
        125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan, NJ 07726
        Main number: 732-431-7220
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        16 S. Main Street Allentown, NJ 08501
        Main number: 609-259-7565
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        100 First Avenue Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716
        Main number: 732-291-1956
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        2 Veterans Way Colts Neck, NJ 07722-2225
        Main number: 732-431-5656
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        1001 Route 35 Shrewsbury, NJ 07702
        Main number: 1-866-941-8188
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        251 Middle Road Hazlet, NJ 07730
        Main number: 732-264-7164
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        101 Crawfords Corner Road Holmdel, NJ 07733
        Main number: 732-946-4118<
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        318 Old Tavern Road Howell, NJ 07731
        Main number: 732-938-2300
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        1 Library Ct. Marlboro, NJ 07746
        Main number: 732-536-9406
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        701 Deal Rd. Ocean, NJ 07712
        Main number: 732-531-5092
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        8 Iroquois Avenue Oceanport, NJ 07757
        Main number: 732-229-2626
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        2700 Allaire Rd. Wall, NJ 07719
        Main number: 732-449-8877
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        95 Poplar Ave. West Long Branch, NJ 07764
        Main number: 732-222-5993
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Books and Reading for Kids

Baby Builders- Elissa  Haden Guest/ JP GUE

Baby Loves Scientists: You Can Be Anything!/ Ruth Spiro/ J 502.3

Baby’s Opposites- Nancy Raines Day/ JP DAY

Bubbles- Ben Clanton/ JP CLA

Construction Site: Road Crew, Coming Through!- Sherri Duskey Rinker/ JP RIN

Goodnight, Rainbow Cats- Barbara Castro Urio/ JP URI

Learning with Llama Llama: Numbers- J.T. Morrow, illustrator/ JP LEA

Woodland Dance!- Sandra Boynton/ JP BOY

Penguins Don’t wear Sweaters- Marrika Tamura/ JP TAM

Stanley’s Lunch Box- William Bee/ JP BEE

Baby’s Big Busy Book- Karen Katz/ JP KAT

Bundle Up- Jennifer Sattler/ JP SAT

Colors with Ladybug-Dawn Sirett/ JP SIR

Hi Five Animals!- Ross Burach- JP BUR

I thought I Saw a Dinosaur!- Lydia Nichols/ JP NIC

Opposites- Jacques Duquennoy/ JP DUQ

Pet the Pets- Sarah Lynne Reul/ JP REU

Please and Thank You- Thierry Bedouet/ JP BED

Shapes-Jaques Duquennoy/ JP DUQ

Snow Kisses- Judi Abbot/ JP ABB

Time For Bed, Pete the Kitty– James Dean/ JP DEA

Welcome: A Mo Willems Guide to New Arrivals- Mo Willems/ JP WIL

Where is Little Fish?- Lucy Cousins/ JP COU

Yoga Bug- Sarah Jane Hinder/ JP HIN

Bear is a Bear- Jonathan Stutzman/ JP STU

Better Together!- Amy Robach/ JP ROB

Chez Bob – Bob Shea/ JP SHE

Everybody in the Red Brick Building Anne Wynter/ JP WYN

A House- Kevin Henkes/ JP HEN

Littlest Yak- Lu Fraser/ JP FRA

Nice Dream Truck- Beth Ferry/ J FER

Our Table- Peter Reynolds/ JP REY

The Smart Cookie- Jory John/ JP JOH

When Nana Dances- Jane Yolen/ JP YOL

Amos McGee Misses the Bus- Philip Christian Stead/ JP STE

Aaron Slater, Illustrator- Andrea Beaty/ JP BEA

Interrupting Chicken: Cookies for Breakfast- David Ezra Stein/ JP STE

Kiyoshi’s Walk- Mark Karlins/ JP KAR

A Hundred Thousand Welcomes- Mary Lee Donovan /JP DON

A Walk in the Words- Hudson Talbott/ JP TAL

Mr. Watson’s Chickens- Jarret Dapier/ JP DAP

Time For Bed, Old House- Janet Costa Bates/ JP BAT

Off Limits- Helen Yoon/ JP YOO

Stretchy and Beanie- Judith  Byron Schachner/ JP SCH

Series 

Captain Awesome

Critter Club

Elephant and Piggie

Ella and Owen

Fly Guy

Galaxy Zack

Horrible Harry

Mercy Watson

Notebook of Doom

Owl Diaires

Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball- Laura Ellen Anderson/ J AND

Clownfish Aren’t So Funny : fascinating facts about some of the ocean’s most
misunderstood creatures- Matt Weiss/ J 591.77 WEI

The Dog Who Lost His Bark -Eoin Colfer/ J COL

Emily Windsnap and the Pirate Prince – Li z Kessler/ J KES

Hardy Boys Clue Book: The Great Pumpkin Smash/- Franklin Dixon/ J DIX

I Survived the Great Molasses Flood- Lauren Tarshis/ J TAR

The Last Kids on Earth and the Midnight Blade – Max Brallier/ J BRA

The Magic Misfits: The Minor Third – Neil Patrick Harris / J HAR

Night of the Ninth Dragon- Mary Pope Osborne / J OSB

Serafina and the Seven Stars – Robert Beatty/ J BEA

The Very Short, Entirely True History of Unicorns – Sarah Laskow/ J 398.245 LAS

Very, Very Far North- Dan Bar El/ J BAR

White Bird- R.J Palacio/ GN J PAL

Series

According to Humphrey- Betty G Birney

Dragon Masters-Tracey West

Eerie Elementary- Jack Chabert

Kylie Jean- M. Peschke

Clementine-  Sara Pennypacker

Comeback Kids- Mike Lupica

Diary of a Wimpy Kid- Jeff Kinney

Baby Mouse- Jennifer Holm

Ivy and Bean- Annie Barrows

My Weird School- Dan Gutman

Judy Moody- Megan McDonald

Flat Stanley- Jeff Brown

Alone- Megan E Freeman/ J FRE

Beatryce  Prophecy- Kate DiCamillo/ J DIC

Elephant in the Room- Holly Goldberg Sloan/ J SLO

The Science Frankie and Bug- Gayle Forman/ J FOR

Charlie Thorne and the Lost City- Stuart Gibbs/ J GIB

Ground Zero- Alan Gratz/ J GRA

Daughter of the Deep- Rick Riordan/ J RIO

Starfish- Lisa Fipps/ J FIP

Ali Cross, Like Father, Like Son-  James Patterson/ J PAT

Out of My Heart- Sharon Draper/ J DRA

Series

The Baby-Sitter’s Club- Ann Martin/ GN J MAR

Big Nate- Lincoln Peirce/ GN J PEI and J PEI

Land of Stories- Chris Colfer/ J COL

Magisterium- Holly Black/ J BLA

Middle School- James Patterson/ J PAT

Percy Jackson- Rick Riordan/ J RIO

School for Good and Evil- Soman Chainani/ J CHA

Wings of Fire- Tui Sutherland/ J SUT

Blubber – Judy Blume / J BLU

Bullying: Deal With it Before Push Comes to Shove – Elaine Slavens / J302.3 SLA

Crash- Jerry Spinelli/ J SPI

El Deafo- Cece Bell/ J 362.42 BEL

Ella, the Elegant Elephant- Carmela D’Amico-/ JP DAM

I Funny- James Patterson / J PAT

Invisible Boy- Trudy Ludwig / JP LUD

Invisible Emmie- Terri Libenson / GN J LIB

Llama Llama and the Bully Goat- Anna Dewdney/ JP DEW

One- Kathryn Otoshi/ JP OTO

The Only Game- Mike Lupica/ J LUP

Real Friends- Shannon Hale/ J 741.597 HAL

Stick and Stone- Beth Ferry/ JP FER

The Very Grouchy Ladybug- Eric Carle/ JP CAR

Wolf Hollow- Lauren Wolk /J WOL

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Julius the Baby of the World- Kevin Henkes/ JP HEN

Little Frog’s Tadpole Trouble- Tatyana Feeney/ JP FEE

Little Miss, Big Sis- Amy Krouse Rosenthal/ JP ROS

Maple and Willow Together- Lori Nichols/ JP NIC

Mama’s Belly- Kate Hosford/ JP HOS

Marigold and Daisy- Andrea Zuill/ JP ZUL

A New Brother or Sister- Charlotte Guillain/ J 306.75 GUI

The New Small Person- Lauren Child/ JP CHI

No Room for Baby- Emile Jadoup/ JP JAD

Olive Marshmallow- Katie Saunders/ JP SAU

One Special Day- Lola Schaefer/ JP SCH

Pocket Full of Kisses- Audrey Penn/ JP PEN

Splat and the New Baby- Rob Scotton/ JP SCO

Wolfie the Bunny- Anne Dyckman/ JP DYK

As Brave as You- Jason Reynolds/ J REY

Counting by 7’s- Holly Goldberg Sloane/ J SLO

The Crocodile Who Didn’t Like the Water- Gemma Merino/ JP MER

El Deafo- Cece Bell/ J 362.42 BEL

Family Book- Todd Parr/ JP PAR

Flying Lessons and Other Stories- Ellen Oh/ J OH

I’m Like You, You’re Like Me: A Book About Understanding and Appreciating Each Other-Cindy Gainer/ J 158.2 GAI

Inside Out and Back Again- Thanha Lai/ J LAI

Isaac and His Amazing Asperger Super Powers!- Melanie Walsh/ J618.928 WAL

It Ain’t so Awful, Falafel- Firoozeh Dumas/ J DUM

Just Because- Rebecca Elliot/ JP ELL

Last Stop on Market Street- Matt de la Pena/ JP PEN

Little Humans- Brandon Stanton/ J 305.232 STA

No Kimchi for Me- Aram Kim/ JP KIM

Red: A Crayon’s Story- Michael Hall/ JP HAL

Save Me a Seat- Sarah Weeks/ J WEE

Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World- Sy Montgomery/ J 636.009 MON

This Kid Can Fly: It’s About Ability ( Not Disability)- Aaron Philip/ J 362.42 PHI

We’re All Wonders- R.J Polacio/ JP POL

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