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Domino Fest-Saturday, June 20 |
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 Create & Connect: An Adult Craft Night Cyanotype Prints Monday, June 22 5:30pm
Sign up on our website, as supplies are limited-sedalialibrary.com Queen City Room Intended for Adults |
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Summer Reading 2026: June 1-July 24
Join us for our Kickoff with Show Me Dinosaurs! June 1 4-6pm |
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Summer Reading Events- See our website for full descriptions
Every Wednesday at 10am-Various programs and events Every Thursday at 10am-Preschool Storytime Every Monday from 4-6pm-Build & Create |
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Teen Game Night Monday, June 29 from 4-6pm
Join us for a Catan Game Board event! Learn a new game, test your skills, and luck. Basic instruction provided. Everyone is welcome. Intended for teens or anyone wanting to learn this game. Queen City Room |
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1960's Change & Creativity: Groovy Stories and Civil Rights
Literature in the 1960s was a watershed moment for modern literature, marked by the release of several Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning masterpieces. These works grappled deeply with emerging social, racial, and existential tensions, setting the stage for the counterculture movement of the decade. Join us as we take a reading journey through the library's beginning...let's remember the 1960's. |
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To Kill a Mockingbird American Classics Edition
by Harper Lee
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize / Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadIn celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, HarperCollins is proud to present this library of American classics drawn from our storied catalog. One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird is Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred.To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, was named the best novel of the twentieth century by librarians across the nation, and was voted by readers as America's most beloved novel on PBS's The Great American Read. It remains a staple of many high school reading lists across the country and has been translated into more than forty languages, selling more than forty million copies worldwide. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, Scout Finch, and her brother, Jem, as their father, Atticus--a crusading local lawyer--risks everything to defend a Black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much.A BEAUTIFUL PACKAGE WITH FLAPS: Featuring French flaps and a unique vivid cover design, each book in the collection is published as a deluxe trade paperback that is a part of a stunning series look.HARPER COLLINS AMERICAN CLASSICS: This series includes timeless novels, poetry, children's books, and groundbreaking nonfiction that has shaped American thought, literature, and identity across generations.AMERICA'S PUBLISHER: Since its founding in 1817, no American publisher has been so entwined in the history of American letters. Our books enrich, challenge, and defined the American spirit.AMERICA 250: The HarperCollins American Classics arrive in time for America's 250th anniversary celebrations.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most. Billy Pilgrim's journey is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be fallibly human.--Provided by publisher.
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A Wrinkle in Time Movie Tie-In Edition
by Madeleine L'Engle
A movie tie-in edition to the upcoming major motion picture, now including an introduction by director Ava DuVernay. In 1962, Madeleine L'Engle debuted her novel A Wrinkle in Time, which would go on to win the 1963 Newbery Medal. Bridging science and fantasy, darkness and light, fear and friendship, the story became a classic of children's literature and is beloved around the world. Now Disney is taking it to the silver screen! With an all-star cast that includes Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, and newcomer Storm Reid, the major motion picture bring the world of Wrinkle to life for a new generation of fans. This movie tie-in edition of the timeless novel features the complete, unabridged original text; an introduction by the film's director, Ava DuVernay (Selma); and eight pages of photos from the movie. This title has Common Core connections. Praise for A Wrinkle in Time: One of America's most beloved stories. --Andrew Liptak in Kirkus A coming of age fantasy story that sympathizes with typical teen girl awkwardness and insecurity, highlighting courage, resourcefulness and the importance of family ties as key to overcoming them. --Carol Platt Liebau, author, in the New York Post An exhilarating experience. --Kirkus Reviews This imaginative book will be read for a long time into the future. --Children's Literature A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT. --Meg Cabot A book that every young person should read, a book that provides a road map for seeking knowledge and compassion even at the worst of times, a book to make the world a better place. --Cory Doctorow [L'Engle's] work is one of the things that made me a writer, a science fiction and fantasy fan, an avid reader. Hers were the first books I read that mixed math and magic, the quest and the quantum. --Scott Westerfeld A Wrinkle in Time taught me that you can tackle even the deepest and most slippery concepts of physics and philosophy in fiction for young readers. It's a great lesson for all writers, and a tough tesseract to follow. --David Lubar
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National Great Outdoors Month Celebrated throughout June, National Great Outdoors month highlights America's public lands and water, encouraging people to get outside, be active, and connect with nature. |
Pride Month Pride month highlights LGBTQ+ voices and celebrates the contributions the community has made to history, society, and culture. |
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