Guest Gecko at the Library

5-16-2025

Last summer Miss Maria began a weekly book club for patrons 9-13 years old. The Choose Your Own Adventure Book Club was actually in conjunction with the publishers of those books who provided swag for everyone who participated each week. When school started back up the book club switched gears meeting once a month and becoming Series Sampler. Each month they read the first book in a juvenile or young adult series. If they like the book, they may continue the series on their own.

The final Series Sampler for this school year is a favorite of mine, Suzanne Collins Gregor the Overlander. Gregor lives with his family, minus his father, in New York City. His dad disappeared the previous year leaving the family in rough financial straits. One day while in the laundry room of their apartment complex, Gregor and his sister fall through an opening into the Underworld where all sorts of creatures live. While the book clubs will discuss the book, the focus of the meetings is usually a creative project related to the plot. This month’s meeting will include a visitor representing the Underworld. Her name is Tig, and she is a leopard gecko. Don’t worry, she isn’t a substitute for Snake Discovery this summer.

The book club will transition again in June to meet twice a month and align with the Summer Reading Program theme: Color Our World. This time it will be called Read the Rainbow. Each book has a different colored cover beginning with the purple covered Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate and making its way through red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. Miss Maria enjoyed selecting the books until working on the flier. That’s when the impact of new editions hit home. They have different colored covers. So far, copies of the first two books have arrived in the desired color. Keep you fingers crossed for us that good luck continues.

Also in the works for Color(ing) Our World is Friday afternoon Art Attack! This is an art program for all ages beginning on June 13^th. We do ask for registration the Monday beforehand to make certain there are enough supplies for everyone. In August the library will host an art show to display their creativity and hard work.

Our summer calendar with dates for the book club and other programs can be found on our website. This year we are not in the Park and Rec Guide as their pages were cut by four. It can be found as a separate flier where the guide is available, at the library and frequently on Facebook.

Reading Now: The Reality of Everything by Rebecca Yarros

Listening to Now: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett