Youth Services

Enjoy these poems from our Early Elementary and Tween contest winners!

In honor of National Poetry Month, RHPL is having a youth poetry writing contest. Whether you write poems all the time or you’ve never written a poem before, this is your chance to express yourself and share your words with the community.

Rochester Hills Public Library was announced as a finalist in the Clarivate Library Innovation Awards, an annual program designed to recognize and support innovation in academic, national, and public libraries worldwide, for the design of its Kids Catalog.

Each week, vote on which books you think are the best. Your vote will help decide which books advance to the next round!

Together with Flight Path, RHPL empowers residents to participate in data gathering and learn simple, effective ways to protect and enhance the local environment, turning community interest into lasting, meaningful steps that help protect our natural world, now and for the future.

As a Family Place Library™, RHPL provides a welcoming community environment with resources to help families nurture their children's development and early learning during the critical first years of life.

One of the great things about living in Michigan is that, rest assured, we’ll get to experience the change of the seasons. As we consider this change we might ask ourselves, “is there a way to connect literacy to winter?” And the answer is “Yes!”

DINOvember is a month-long celebration of all things dinosaurs. It’s the perfect time of the year to engage children's imaginations about these big creatures that lived millions of years ago.

RHPL youth librarians will be visiting local elementary schools to speak with area fifth graders in October and the Battle of the Books will officially kickoff on Wednesday, November 12