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Library Closures The Library will open at 1pm on Monday, April 6th to accommodate a morning staff training. We will close at 6pm |
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Free Dog Training Workshops with Author Kendall Brown Upcoming Topics Apr 4 – Leash Walking Without the Struggle May 2 – Jumping, Barking, and Ignoring You Jul 11 – Why Treats Stop Working Aug 8 – Calm Greetings Sept 5 – Building a Stronger Bond Oct 3 – Calm Dogs in a Busy World Nov 7 – Consistency Without Burnout Dec 5 – Setting Your Dog Up for Success
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✨Make Something New This Month at the Carson City Library! Looking for a creative midweek spark? Join us for Makerspace Workshops, happening every Wednesday from 5:00–6:00 PM in the Library Makerspace. Each week offers hands-on learning with different tools and technologies—perfect for beginners and curious creators alike. Weekly lineup: 1st Wednesday: Sewing & Embroidery 2nd Wednesday: Heat Press & Vinyl Cutter 3rd Wednesday: 3D Printing 4th Wednesday: Rotating projects like heat press, Boss laser, soldering, and more
Whether you want to learn a new skill, explore our makerspace equipment, or create something unique, there’s a new project waiting for you each week. Come experiment, learn, and make with us! 📍 Carson City Library Makerspace
🕔 Wednesdays | 5:00–6:00 PM |
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📚 Join Us for Capital City Reads This April! Starting April 1, the whole community is invited to take part in our annual shared reading experience. 🐝 Pick up a free copy of The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin—yours to keep or pass along to a friend! This heartwarming novel explores healing, community, and the quiet magic of beekeeping. 💬 Book Discussions:
April 16 & April 28 | 5:30 PM 🌼 Enjoy Bee-Themed Programs All Month Long! - 🐝 Bee-Friendly Flowers Scavenger Hunt
- 🏆 Spelling Bees for Kids, Teens & Adults
- 🎨 Popsicle Stick Bees (Kids)
- 💎 Bee Diamond Art (Teens & Adults)
Join us as we come together to read, create, and celebrate the buzz around this year’s Capital City Reads! |
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🚀 Saturday STEAM
Saturdays | 10:30–11:30 AM Join us each Saturday for hands-on fun exploring science, technology, engineering, art, and math! Each week features a new activity designed for curious kids and families to learn and create together. 🐣 April 4 – Egg Hunt (No STEAM Program)
Join us for a special egg hunt in place of STEAM this week! ☀️ April 11 – Solar Ovens
Harness the power of the sun as you create a simple solar oven and learn about renewable energy. 🪁 April 18 – DIY Kites
Create and decorate your own kite while exploring the science of flight. 💧 April 25 – Water Treatment Demo with Research Consulting Inc.
Learn how water is cleaned and made safe through an engaging, hands-on demonstration with local experts. Each program offers a playful way to explore science, creativity, and problem-solving—we can’t wait to see you there! |
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📚 Celebrate National Library Week and Find Your Joy At The Carson City Library!
🌼 All Month Long: Stop by the Info Desk to pick up supplies and add your own positive message to our garden. Share a kind word, an uplifting thought, or something that brings you joy—and help brighten someone else’s day!
🪴 Adults: Create Your Own Zen Garden
Sunday, April 19 | 2:00 PM
🎨 Kids: Wooden Joy Signs Craft
Wednesday, April 23 | 11:30 AM
💬 Teens & Adults: Positivity Boards
Wednesday, April 23 | 5:30–6:30 PM
Come get creative and spread a little joy with us this month! |
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📚 National Poetry Month
Celebrate National Poetry Month with us all April long! ✨ All Month: Pick up a poetry magnet kit and tag us in your creations!
✍️ Drop-In Craft: Create your own acrostic poetry at our craft table
🎤 April 9 | 6:00–7:00 PM: Open Mic Poetry Night—share your work or just listen!
📓 Teen Hours: Design your own poetry journal Come explore, create, and share the power of poetry with your community! |
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Tech Busters: One On One Tech Help Wednesdays | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Carson City Library Need help with your smartphone, tablet, laptop, or other tech questions? Stop by Techbusters! Our knowledgeable staff offers one-on-one assistance with setting up devices, troubleshooting problems, and learning new digital skills. Walk-ins are welcome—no appointment needed. Whether you’re just getting started or need help mastering your technology, we’re here to help! |
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Minden Board Game Group
Sundays | 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Carson City Library | Patton Community Room Join the Minden Board Game Group every Sunday afternoon in the Carson City Library’s Phyllis & Phil Patton Community Room! Bring your favorite games from home or choose from a wide selection of board games available on the Digi shelves. Whether you’re a seasoned strategist or a casual player, there’s something for everyone. All ages are welcome—families, teens, and adults alike. Drop in, meet new friends, and enjoy an afternoon of fun, friendly competition, and community connection. No registration required. |
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Lego ClubWednesdays | 4:00 PM
Kennedy Children's Corner | Carson City Library Get creative and build something amazing at Lego Club! Join us every Wednesday at 4 PM in the Kennedy Children's Corner. This program is designed for elementary school-aged children who love to imagine, design, and build with Legos. No registration is required—just drop in and start building! We provide the bricks, you bring the creativity. |
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Baby Bookworms Storytime
Tuesdays | 10:30 AM Patton Community Room | Carson City Library Designed for our littlest learners (ages 0–2), Baby Bookworms offers gentle stories, songs, and bonding time for babies and their caregivers. Join us each week for a cozy and welcoming storytime that encourages early literacy and connection through shared experiences. No registration required—just bring your baby and get ready for sweet moments and lots of smiles! |
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Wednesdays | 6:30 PMPatton Community Room | Carson City Library Get ready to wind down with stories, songs, and crafts at Bedtime Bears Storytime! Perfect for kids of all ages, this relaxing evening program helps little ones settle in for the night with calming activities and creative fun. No registration required—just drop in with your favorite stuffed animal or blanket and enjoy a cozy evening together. |
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Thursdays | 10:30 AMPatton Community Room | Carson City Library Big Kid Butterflies Storytime is designed especially for older toddlers and preschoolers (ages 1–5) who are getting ready to start school! Join us for stories, songs, and activities that support early literacy, school readiness, and social skills in a fun, welcoming environment. Younger children are also welcome to join the fun! No registration required—just drop in and watch your little butterflies grow and learn! |
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Textile Arts Club (formerly Crochet Corner) Thursdays | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM 2nd Floor | Executive Conference Room | Carson City Library Whether you’re brand new to crochet or have years of experience, Crochet Corner is the perfect place to stitch, learn, and create together! We’ll cover the basics for beginners and offer a welcoming space for all skill levels to practice and share tips. All materials are provided. Ages 14 and up are welcome. No registration required—just bring your creativity and join us for a relaxing evening of crafting! |
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Pokemon Club Is Back Every Last Friday of the Month | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PMPatton Community Room | Carson City Library Calling all Pokémon Trainers! Join us on the last Friday of each month to trade cards, battle, talk strategy, and connect with other Pokémon fans. Whether you’re brand new to the game or a seasoned Trainer, Pokémon Club is a welcoming space to build your skills, grow your collection, and have fun. Bring your cards (if you have them) and get ready to play! |
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Stream Movies on Kanopy! Kanopy is a video streaming service that provides instant access to critically acclaimed movies and documentaries, as well as Kanopy Kids children's favorites. Kanopy is accessible via mobile and tablet apps for iPhone and Android. You can also access Kanopy on your desktop and smart tv apps like Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Samsung TV and Amazon Fire Stick. Set up your account with your Carson City Library card barcode, your email, and a user-generated password. |
Deer Run Home
by Ann Clare Lezotte
With a family who refuses to learn sign language, twelve-year-old Effie is mostly cut off from human communication at home, unable to speak of her abusive stepfather or violent father--only her interpreter understands, and Miss Kathy is willing to take Effie's case to court to provide her with a safe home. Told in verse.
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Clap When You Land
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance--and Papi's secrets--the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they've lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.--
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Kareem Between
by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
**WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Young People's Literature** This heartfelt coming-of-age novel in verse tells the powerful story of a seventh-grade Syrian American boy and his struggles, big and small, as he navigates middle school, now in paperback! The exact type of book I would've loved, and needed, as a kid. -- Jasmine Warga, New York Times bestselling author of and Newbery Honor recipient for Other Words for Home Seventh grade begins, and Kareem's already fumbled it. His best friend moved away, he messed up his tryout for the football team, and because of his heritage, he was voluntold to show the new kid--a Syrian refugee with a thick and embarrassing accent--around school. Just when Kareem thinks his middle school life has imploded, the hotshot QB promises to get Kareem another tryout for the squad. There's a catch: to secure that chance, Kareem must do something he knows is wrong. Then, like a surprise blitz, Kareem's mom returns to Syria to help her family but can't make it back home. If Kareem could throw a penalty flag on the fouls of his school and home life, it would be for unnecessary roughness. Kareem is stuck between. Between countries. Between friends, between football, between parents--and between right and wrong. It's up to him to step up, find his confidence, and navigate the beauty and hope found somewhere in the middle.
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Alone
by Megan E. Freeman
Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten. As months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. But Maddie's most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day. Can Maddie's stubborn will to survive carry her through the most frightening experience of her life?
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Long Way Down
by Jason Reynolds
An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger. --Booklist (starred review) Astonishing. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A tour de force. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds's electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds--the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he's going to murder the guy who killed his brother. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That's what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That's where Will's now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother's gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he's after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that's when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn's gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn't know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck's in the elevator? Just as Will's trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck's cigarette. Will doesn't know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END...if Will gets off that elevator. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.
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Sold
by Patricia McCormick
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at Happiness House full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution.An old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family's debt--then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so that she can never leave.Lakshmi's life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. Still, she lives by her mother's words--Simply to endure is to triumph--and gradually, she forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. Then the day comes when she must make a decision--will she risk everything for a chance to reclaim her life? Written in spare and evocative vignettes, this powerful novel renders a world that is as unimaginable as it is real, and a girl who not only survives but triumphs.
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The mind of a bee
by Lars Chittka
"A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees. Most of us are aware of the hive mind--the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka draws from decades of research, including his own pioneering work, to argue that bees have remarkable cognitive abilities. He shows that they are profoundly smart, have distinct personalities, can recognize flowers and human faces, exhibit basic emotions, count,use simple tools, solve problems, and learn by observing others. They may even possess consciousness. Taking readers deep into the sensory world of bees, Chittka illustrates how bee brains are unparalleled in the animal kingdom in terms of how much sophisticated material is packed into their tiny nervous systems. He looks at their innate behaviors and the ways their evolution as foragers may have contributed to their keen spatial memory. Chittka also examines the psychological differences between bees and the ethical dilemmas that arise in conservation and laboratory settings because bees feel and think. Throughout, he touches on the fascinating history behind the study of bee behavior. Exploring an insect whose sensory experiences rival those of humans,The Mind of a Bee reveals the singular abilities of some of the world's most incredible creatures."
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The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
by Meredith May
An unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places, and how a tiny, little-understood insect could save a life. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May. Everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees. May turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. The bees became a guiding force in May's life, teaching her about family and survival, and it was during this pivotal time in May's childhood that she learned to take care of herself. Part family story, part beekeeping odyssey, The Honey Bus is a rich and lyrical memoir of a girl who journeyed into the hive--and found herself.
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The Beeswax Workshop: How to Make Your Own Natural Candles, Cosmetics, Cleaners, Soaps, Healing Balms and More
by Chris Dalziel
Learn how to transform miraculous beeswax into candles, soaps, environmentally friendly household cleaners, amazing DIY crafts and much more.Making all kinds of amazing, all-natural stuff out of beeswax is easy and fun. Packed with over 100 step-by-step recipes, The Beeswax Workshop shows you how to create beeswax alchemy - turning this simple, magical substance into candles, beautiful gifts, soaps, household cleaners, beauty supplies and so, so much more: HOME - Mason Jar Candle - English Furniture PolishHEALTH - Bug-Be-Gone Insect Repellent - Chamomile Sunburn SalveBEAUTY - Everyday Body Butter - Rose Lip GlossGARDEN - Waterproof Shade Hat - Nontoxic Wood Sealant Whether you use beeswax from your backyard hive or purchase a supply, this book offers tips, tricks and techniques for getting the most out of this miracle ingredient.
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Honey Bees: Letters from the Hive
by Stephen Buchmann
In Honey Bees: Letters From the Hive, bee expert Stephen Buchmann takes readers on an incredible tour. Enter a beehive--one part nursery, one part honey factory, one part queen bee sanctum--then fly through backyard gardens, open fields, and deserts where wildflowers bloom. It's fascinating--and delicious! Hailed for their hard work and harmonious society, bees make possible life on earth as we know it. This fundamental link between bees and humans reaches beyond biology to our environment and our culture: bees have long played important roles in art, religion, literature, and medicine--and, of course, in the kitchen. For honey fanatics and all who have a sweet tooth, this book not only entertains and enlightens but also reminds us of the fragility of humanity's relationship with nature. Includes illustrations and photographs throughout.
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