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PLJCS Wrapped: 2025 Edition​​​​

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2025 was full of incredible stories, new discoveries, and endless opportunities at the library! We are grateful for our library community and your continued support. Here's to the pages we've turned and the new chapter to be explored in 2026. Looking forward to continuing to read, learn, and grow together! 

Check out this year's statistics below or click here for a short video. Did any of your favorites top the lists?

Items Circulated: Almost 170,000

Questions Answered at Patron Services Desk: About 40,000

Programs Offered: Almost 400 various programs and activities

for all ages with approximately 10,000 participants. 

Top 5 Services Resources Offered:

  1. Libby 

  2. Reservable Spaces

  3. Printing/Public Computers

  4. Wonderbooks

  5. Gardening/Seed Kits

Top 5 Children's Books: 

  1. Dog Man: Unleashed by Dav Pilkey

  2. Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea Dav Pilkey

  3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney

  4. Dog Man and Cat Kid Dav Pilkey

  5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown Jeff Kinney

Top 5 YA Books:

  1. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

  2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

  3. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

  4. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

  5. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Top 5 Adult Nonfiction Books:

  1.  Africa: The Definitive Visual History of a Continent by DK

  2.  Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear

  3.  A Log Cabin Notebook by Mary Ellen Hopkins

  4.  Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s, by B. Dylan Hollis

  5. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins

Top 5 Adult Fiction Books:

  1.  The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden

  2.  The Teacher by Frieda McFadden

  3.  Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Ell Potter

  4. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

  5. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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