Tuesday, April 1 | 5:30pm-6:30pm Hotpicks Meeting Room
Once a month, we will select a book authored by an LGBTQ+ writer or featuring LGBTQ+ characters. This month's book is Hand in Hand in Love edited by Simon Avery.
A group of teens who help decide which books, movies, and games will be added to the library and what programs will be offered. Food and drinks will be provided.
Join us for a rotating monthly craft program on the first Saturday of the month. The activity will be different each month, so stop by, explore, play, and learn new skills!
Monthly, we show a movie based on a book, and of course, offer plenty of popcorn to munch on! This month's showing is Out of my Mind based on Sharon M. Draper's book.
Friday, April 18| 4:30pm-6:00pm Dunaway Community Room
Middle School Book Club is a literary adventure for young readers eager to explore the world of books! This month's book is Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins.
To sign up, contact Lily Wymer at lily.wymer@pitkincounty.com or 970-429-1918.
Bookbinding: Paper Making
Saturday, April 19 | 3:00pm-5:00pm Dunaway Community Room
Learn beginner bookbinding skills. No prior experience is necessary. Each program will build on skills learned in previous sessions, but beginners are always welcome.
Tuesday, April 28| 5:30pm-6:30pm Dunaway Community Room
Read materials that have been historically challenged or are on the American Library Association's current challenge list. This month we will discus Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg.
Looking for something new to read? Check out these amazing books!
Fledgling
S.K. Ali
Raisa of Upper Earth has only lived a life of privilege and acquiescence. Ever dutiful, she accepts her father’s arrangement of her marriage to Lein, Crown Prince of the corrupt, volatile lands of Lower Earth. Though Lein is a stranger, Raisa knows the wedding will unite their vastly different worlds in a pact of peace: an infusion of Upper Earth technology will usher in the final age of enlightenment, ending war between humans forever.
Rest in Peaches
Alex Brown
Quinn Marcelo wouldn't necessarily win the award for Most Popular Person at her school, but unbeknownst to her peers, Quinn entertains them at every football, basketball, and baseball game―as Peaches the Parrot, her high school's God-like mascot. When someone sabotages the legendary Peaches costume at the Homecoming Game, Quinn's left unmasked and humiliated. As if that wasn't enough, Little Peaches, a new, real parrot that the PTA got to enhance the Peaches Experience, is kidnapped right after Quinn's unmasking.
Solving for the Unknown
Loan Le
Viet Ho is calm and collected and a lovable oddball who nurses an obsession with forensic science. Evie Mai is a junior biology major and the eldest daughter who has never trod far off the beaten path. When a clumsy accident brings Viet and Evie together, they bond over their shared hometown and similar history—and their orbits grow smaller as their friends collide. The more time they spend with each other and support each other, mentally and emotionally, the more their friendship shifts into something else.
This is the Year
Goria Muñoz
Seventeen-year-old self-proclaimed Goth and aspiring writer Julieta Villarreal is drowning. She’s grieving her twin sister who died in a hit-and-run, her Florida home is crumbling under the weight of climate disaster, and she isn’t sure how much longer she can stand to stay in a place that doesn’t seem to have room for her. Then, Juli is recruited by Cometa, a private space program enlisting high-aptitude New American teens for a high-stakes mission to establish humanity’s first extraterrestrial settlement.
Sixteen Minutes
K.J. Reilly
Seventeen-year-old Nell knows two things for sure—she’s never going to get out of her rural, dead-end hometown of Clawson, NY and her best friend Stevie B and longtime boyfriend Cole are never going to leave her. That is until Charlotte, a new girl, arrives at their school and their lopsided friend triangle is turned on its axis. While Nell and Stevie B are certain that Charlotte isn’t who she says she is, Cole is caught fully in her thrall. There are secret calls and meetings between the two, and Nell knows Cole is keeping something big from her. Now, for the first time in their lives, Nell worries she could lose Cole.
On the Wings of la Noche
Vanessa L. Torres
Death waits for Estrella (Noche) Villanueva. In her human form, she is a lonely science girl grieving the tragic accidental drowning of her girlfriend, Dante Fuentes. At night, she is a Lechuza who visits her dead girlfriend at the lake, desperate for more time with her. The longer Dante’s soul roams the earth, the more likely it is that she will fade into the unknown, lost forever, but Noche cannot let go . . . That’s when a new kid comes to town, Jax, another science nerd like Noche. They connect in a way she can’t ignore, seemingly pulled together by an invisible thread.
The Pitkin County Library offers 100+ free resources to the community.
Resources are organized and free to use. Subjects include test preparation, books, authors, journals, magazines, newspapers, research help, history, automotives, encyclopedias, cooking, crafts, languages, maps, medicine, health, and science. Learn more.
Britannica is an online encyclopedia that provides reliable, accurate, and easy-to-understand information on a wide range of topics, from history and science to arts and culture. Teens may find facts and resources for school projects, research, and general learning.
OverDrive / Libby provides a full range of Young Adult contemporary and classic downloadable eBooks and audiobooks.
Available for free with a library card.
Volunteer Opportunities at the Library
Volunteer with youth services
If you are looking to gain volunteer hours, considering lending a hand at the Library. If interested, please contact Lily Wymer at lily.wymer@pitkincounty.com or 970-429-1918.