Adventure Pass Changes in 2025

Due to software issues affecting all libraries using the service, the Des Moines Public Library’s Iowa Adventure Pass program will no longer be available in 2025. Any reservation already made for 2025 will be honored, but we encourage anyone with a current reservation to print those passes immediately. Customers can make new reservations for passes that must be used by December 31, 2024. We hope to reintroduce the service at a later time, and we apologize for the inconvenience. 

Beyond the Shelves: Back to School

Jes and Sarah are taking us back to middle school this month! They're talking about some of their favorite books from when they were in middle school and giving you some readalikes for those books today!

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Show Notes

 

Middle School Books and Readalikes

 
Weetzie Bat, by Francesca Lia Block
 
Shadow Children series, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
 
Fear Street series, by R.L. Stine
 
Island series, by Gordon Korman
 
The Face on the Milk Carton, by Caroline B. Cooney

 

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg
  • Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple
  • The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by C. Alan Bradley

 

What We're Reading

 

First Dibs

 

Best Bets

Published on September 06, 2023
Last Modified November 22, 2024