Events
Kamas Valley Branch
Location
110 N Main, Kamas, UT US 84036
Drop in on Wednesdays between 10:30 am and 12:00 pm for unstructured, early learning play time for children ages 0-4.
Coalville Branch
Location
82 North 50 East, Coalville, UT US 84017
Join us every Wednesday--May 28 through July 30--10:30 am for our Summer Story Times on the front lawn of the Coalville Branch Library. Picture books, songs, puppets and a simple preschool craft. For families with children of all ages. See you there!
Join us every Wednesday--June 11 through August 6--10:30 am for our Summer Story Times at Matt Knoop Park. 4056 Shadow Mountain Drive, Park City (behind the PC Community Gardens.) Picture books, songs, puppets and a simple preschool craft. For families with children of all ages. Bring your library card to check out some books from the Bookmobile, too. See you there!
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Jul2311:30 am - 1:00 pm MDT
Coalville Branch
Location
82 North 50 East, Coalville, UT US 84017
Unstructured Play Time on the front lawn for children age 0-5 and their caregivers. Meet new friends, young and old. Every Wednesday, May 28 through July 30, right after story time from 11:30am-12:30pm. Drop in anytime.
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Jul232:00 pm - 2:45 pm MDT
Illuminating Hope and Grace in the Face of Hardship with Rex Ogle (5th-8th Grade)
This event will be 45 minutes in length.
You’re invited to join us online with award-winning author Rex Ogle as he talks to viewers about his struggles to navigate sixth grade as written about in his book Free Lunch.
Instead of giving him lunch money, Rex’s mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a wealthy school district, better-off kids crowd impatiently behind him as he tries to explain to the cashier that he’s on the free meal program. The lunch lady is hard of hearing, so Rex has to shout.
Free Lunch is the story of Rex’s efforts to navigate his first semester of sixth grade—who to sit with, not being able to join the football team, Halloween in a handmade costume, classmates and a teacher who take one look at him and decide he’s trouble—all while wearing secondhand clothes and being hungry. His mom and her boyfriend are out of work, and life at home is punctuated by outbursts of violence. Halfway through the semester, his family is evicted and ends up in government-subsidized housing in view of the school. Rex lingers at the end of last period every day until the buses have left, so no one will see where he lives.
Unsparing and realistic, Free Lunch is a story of hardship threaded with hope and moments of grace. Rex’s voice is compelling and authentic, and Free Lunch is a true, timely, and essential work that illuminates the lived experience of poverty in America. Register now to join the conversation!
About the Author: Rex Ogle is the author of Free Lunch, winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; Punching Bag, a New York Public Library Best Book; Abuela Don’t Forget Me, finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; and Road Home, which received a Printz Honor and a Stonewall Book Award Honor. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Jul232:30 pm - 3:30 pm MDT15 spots available
Kamas Valley Branch
Location
110 N Main, Kamas, UT US 84036
Need something to do on this hot summer day? Come chill out at the library while we watch a movie and do some crafts!
There will snacks, of course!
Registration is required
Ages 12-18