Homework Help at the Library

One of the greatest resources that the library can offer is homework and research help.  How?  Through the incredible online databases, books, and other resources that we can provide for you at the library and through our website.

With our help, we'll show you how to navigate the web to find credible websites to use for your school report, as well as show you how to use multiple databases to find scholarly articles, journals, primary documents, and encyclopedias that you can use for that paper you need to write.  Below is a listing of resources that are better than anything you will ever find on Wikipedia:



Homework Help RI
Connects you to free, live tutors online.  Five different centers, the Student Center, College Center, Adult Education Centers, Career Center, and ProofPoint Writing Center offer a wide range of services.  For example, the Student Center can help with studying for exams and homework help, while the College Center is ideal for students needing exam prep, finding a job, and reviewing course work.    

World Book
Provides encyclopedic articles, videos, pictures, and maps that your teacher will appreciate more than that entry you found on Wikipedia.  Includes World Book Kids, World Book Student, World Book Advanced, and many other options.

Student Research Center 
Searches through magazines, books and encyclopedias, biographies, radio and TV news transcripts, country reports, state/ province reports, primary source documents, photos, flags, maps, film and videos.  A great database with many ways to search for what you are looking for!

Kids Search and Searchasaurus

Colorful, easy to use websites that are great for younger students who are looking for information on topics such as animals, arts and music, geography and history, health, news, language arts, math, science, social studies, and sports. 

Mango Languages

Parlez-vous francais?  If you'd like to learn French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or any of the other 34 languages offered on Mango, then this site can help you with lessons, reviews, and quizzes so that you'll be on your way to being fluent in the language that you've always wanted to learn.

These resources are available through  AskRI and EBSCOhost.  They can be accessed through our library homepage by clicking on the logo's featured below. 

Certain databases may ask for you library card to sign in.  For a FREE library card, please visit your local library with a photo ID and proof of Rhode Island residency.    

Summer Reading Finale Party

The Great Baldini and his beautiful skeleton assistant, Skinny, will be taking us on a magical tour of our planet. You'll laugh, learn, and be amazed by different tricks from every continent. The Great Baldini has been entertaining folks for years through his unique style of humor and magic. Along with Skinny, he'll be sharing stories from many of the different countries of the world.

When: Wednesday, August 17th at 11am

Ages: 4 and up

Price: FREE

Tickets are required; please pick up your free tickets in the Children's Room at the library

We will also be awarding the Summer Reading Program reading awards and prize bags during this program!  If you cannot attend this program, you can visit us later until September 1st and we will give you your prize bag at that time!  

The Great Baldini

Ronald McDonald's Reading Adventure Show

Have a world of fun throughout “Ronald McDonald’s Reading Adventure Show!” This exciting adventure will inspire readers to discover “Book Time” each day.

This 30 minute show is filled with adventure, magic, discovery, audience participation and reading fun.

When: Tuesday, August 9th

Time: 11:00am

Where: Library Program Room

For FREE tickets, please call or visit the Children's Room at 846-1573

Signed up for Summer Reading? Fill in your reading log!

We are almost into Week 5 of our Summer Reading Program, "One World, Many Stories", and that means we have only 2 more weeks till our Summer Reading Finale Party on Wednesday, August 17th at 11am with magician "The Great Baldini".

To receive a reading certificate, prize bag, and free book on that day, make sure to visit the library before the August 17th deadline to fill in your reading log of the books that you have read.  

If you aren't able to make it that day, you will have until September 1st to pick up your prize bag and complete your reading log.  While visiting the library you can also pick up coupons for free child admittance to local area attractions, free tickets to upcoming programs, and of course, all the books, magazines, audiobooks, and DVDs that we have to offer!

Animal Experiences

Animal Experiences with Dave Marchetti is the most hands on animal program you're likely to ever see. With over 20 animals- including turtles, snakes, lizards, amphibians, and even an alligator-there is something everyone will like. Dave's program runs about an hour with plenty of time for his audience to handle the animals on their own. From Wally the gator to Buddy the chinchilla his animals love attention.

When: Tuesday, August 2nd

Time: 2:00 pm

Where: Library Program Room 

For FREE tickets, please call or visit the Children's Room at 846-1573

Read to Feed

For this summer's reading program, as part of our "One World, Many Stories" reading theme, we wanted to partner with Heifer International in their "Read to Feed" campaign.  With the support of our Middletown Friends of the Library organization who are sponsoring this campaign, we chose four animals from the Heifer "gift catalog"  that children can vote towards donating money to.

The animals that were chosen were a flock of chicks, a water buffalo, a hive of honeybees, and a goat.  For every book that a child reads, they get a marble to vote with.  The more books they read, the more votes they get!

The animal with the most votes wins, and the Friends will then donate money to Heifer International for the purchase of that animal.  These animals are then sent to poverty stricken villages around the world to help struggling families earn an income and provide sustenance.

Since we have just reached the half-way mark in our summer reading program, lets see how the votes are tallying up so far:

Flock of Chicks - 210 votes

Water Buffalo - 136 votes





Goat - 117 votes

Honeybees - 107 votes






Total votes and books read so far...570 books!  Keep reading, and we can reach 1,000 books read!

Narragansett Stories

Join us for "Narragansett Stories of My Grandmother" with Loren Spears.  This program will feature Native storytelling, oral history, music & dance focusing on the Narragansett People. There will be a variety of Native cultural items to share, opportunity for questions and answers, as well as participation in the program.

When: Monday, July 25th

Time: 2:00 pm

Where: Library Program Room

For FREE tickets, please call or visit the Children's Department at 846-1573