Welcome to the Youth Area!
In our bright and cheerful youth area, you'll find books for everyone from toddler to teen. In the past year we have added over 1,000 new titles to our collections. You'll find picture books, easy chapter books, junior and young adult novels, videos, cassettes, CDs and DVDs. The non-fiction section is loaded with information books on hundreds of topics of interest to students from elementary and early high school.
Browse or borrow a magazine. We have science, animals, sports and teen magazines in the library and we have thousands available online!
Salt Spring Island Public Library is grateful to the Salt Spring Foundation for grants to upgrade furniture and purchase computer equipment in the youth area.
StoryTime
StoryTime tours the Alphabet this season, starting with an Autumn of Adventures on Friday, September 18. Check the Calendar for each week's program, or view the current schedule here. For children in early grades and preschoolers, StoryTime @ the Library takes place in the Children's area on Fridays from 1:00 to 1:45. Teen Summer Reading Club
Are you 13 or older? Click the logo to check out the BC Library on-line Teen Reading Club. Now Canada wide and year round.
Kids' Links
Hi Kids! Welcome to the amazing world of the Internet. Before we get to the links, we have a VERY important message for you and your family about Internet Safety. If you haven't read it already, please go to How to Be Cool on the Internet.
Here are the links!
Learning Links for Pre-K to Grade 2
Interactive programs from LearnNowBC for Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 2 children. These can be accessed from home and give you these games:
Early Reading with Bailey's Book House
Through nine playful activities, children learn about letter names and sounds, rhyming words, adjectives, how text relates to contextual and visual clues, positional words, letter recognition, sentence building, and much more. These activities help to build the language concepts and thinking skills needed to communicate and make sense of the world. 
Exploring Numbers with Milly's Math House
Children build a foundation of fundamental math concepts and thinking skills. Through activities that feel like play, children explore numbers, shapes, sizes, quantities, patterns, and sequencing. New activities address measurement concepts and number sentences.
Life Sciences with Sammy's Science House Sammy helps young scientists build their understanding of biology and time concepts with two new modules that explore stages of plant development over time, and look at how different animals age. All seven modules focus on discovering how to think like a scientist—learning how to observe, analyze, and test theories. 
Social Sciences with Trudy's Time and Place House. Children expand their knowledge of the world around them through new modules that allow them to visit and compare cities, towns, and the countryside. With Trudy’s new jobs module, children learn about people in the community and what they do. Students will also build their understanding of traveling by working with already well-loved landmark activities, cardinal and relative direction, and map symbols.
Kids' Notes
Remember to share when using the Games computer in the Children's Department. Limit yourself to 30 minutes if someone else is waiting to use the computer.
