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Adult Discovery Kits
- Board Games & Tabletop Games
- 7 Wonders: Quick Rules
- Andor: Quick Start Guide / Reference Manual
- Animalogic: Instructions
- Animal upon Animal: Instructions
- Atomic Robo: Character Sheet / Faction Sheet
- Call of Cthulhu, 7th Edition: Instructions
- Carcassonne: Instructions / Supplementary Rules
- Cards Against Humanity, Family Edition: Instructions
- Catan: Extended Edition Instructions and the Base Rules
- Catch Phrase: Instructions
- Chess: Instructions
- Clue: Treachery at Tudor Mansion
- Dungeons & Dragons: Basic Rules
- Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters: Instructions
- Gloomhaven: Rule Book
- Harry Potter Magical Beasts Board Game: Instructions
- Karuba Junior: Instructions
- The Lord of the Rings Card Game: Instructions
- Mad Gab: Instructions
- Masks: Basic Moves Instructions, GM Sheets, and Playbooks
- Mysterium: Game Rules
- Othello: Instructions
- Plunder: A Pirate's Life: Instructions
- Rhino Hero: Instructions
- Risk: Instructions / Castle Risk: Instructions
- Scrabble Junior: Instructions
- Sudoku: Instructions
- Ticket to Ride: Instructions
- Trivial Pursuit: Family Edition: Instructions
- Tumblemaze
- Villainous: Instructions
- Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego: Instructions
- Outdoor Games
- Home Repair & Maintenance Tools
- Smithsonian Great Outdoors Bird Watching Set
- WiFi Hotspots -PDF
- Creative Care Imagination Kits: TimeSlips Engagement Resource
Adventure Passes
All passes are available on a first-come, first-served basis and cannot be reserved. Only one pass per household at a time. Checkout period is three days. There is $10 per day late fee.
- Betty Brinn Children’s Museum
- Daily admission for up to 6 guests
- Discounted parking
Milwaukee Art Museum
- Daily admission for up to four adults and any children 17 and under
- 20% discount on paid parking in the Museum’s Calatrava garage and Museum Center Park
- 10% discount on Museum shopping and dining
Milwaukee County Zoo
- Daily admission for family
- Free parking
- 10% discount on Milwaukee County Zoo Gift Shops
Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, or "The Domes"
- Daily admission for 2 adults plus children 17 and under
- A 10% discount in the Domes Gift Shop, Gifts Under Glass
- Reciprocal admissions to other Botanical Gardens.
- More information about reciprocal admissions can be found here.
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
- Daily museum admission for two adults, plus all children or grandchildren 17 and under.
Sheboygan Bookworm Gardens
- Daily admission for two adults plus unlimited children 18 and under
- 10% off Nature Gift Shop
- Reciprocal admissions to other Botanical Gardens.
- More information about reciprocal admissions can be found here.
- Open May through October
Children's Discovery Kits
- Coding Toys
- Bloxels: Build Your Own Video Game (2 kits)
- Botley the Coding Robot
- Code-a-pillar Twist
- Cubetto Deluxe
- Drawbot
- Kamibot STEAM Learning Robot Coding Set for Kids
- Kano Pixel Kit
- Qobo: What Qobo Senses is What Qobo Does
- Star Wars Bloxels: Build Your Own Video Game
- Hobby Kits
- Amscope Microscope STEAM Kit
- Emarth 70mm Compact Refractor Telescope
- Superspirography Design Set
- Unplugged Explorers Snow Kit (2 kits)
- Teaching Toys
- Checkout Register
- Design & Drill: Activity Center
- Design & Drill: My First Workbench
- Lite-Brite
- Teaching Cash Register
- Musical Instruments
- Ukulele
- Mighty Mini Band
- Happy Harp
Book Club Kits
The Frank L. Weyenberg Library has a limited number of book club kits, which contain 5-7 books each and a list of discussion questions. All kits are available for request through the library catalog.
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
- Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
- The Birchbark Houseby Louise Erdrich (appropriate for a family or children's book club)
- The Black Rose: The Dramatic Story of Madam C.J. Walker, America's First Black Female Millionaire by Tananarive Due
- A Boy called Bat by Elana Arnold (appropriate for a family or children's book club)
- City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
- Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- Playing with Fire by Tess Gerritsen
- Reflections of a Life in Exile by JF Riordan
- The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin J. DiAngelo
To view a list of the Monarch Library System book club kits, click here.
Jigsaw Puzzles
Stop in and browse our collection of jigsaw puzzles! Puzzles range in number of pieces and vary in level of difficulty. This collection was made entirely through donations, so some puzzles may have missing pieces. Puzzles are located to the left inside the entrance doors.
Plush Puppets
Make stories come alive with our collection of plush puppets. Puppets are located in the Children's area.