The Summer Reading Program is in full swing. If you haven’t already signed your kiddos up, there’s still plenty of time to join in the fun.
We kicked off this year’s program with the All Under One Roof Road Show on June 20. Many thanks to the Seeley Lake Elementary School’s Outdoor Education program for partnering with the public library to make this event a success.
Kids participated in fun events with the spectrum Discovery Area, Families First, MCAT, UM’s Living Lab and additional staff from the Missoula Public Library.
The Summer Reading Program will end on Thursday, Aug. 22. After that we’ll have the grand prize drawing. Winners will be notified the following week.
Participants earn an entry in the drawing by completing their reading logs. They also earn a coupon for a free small ice cream cone from The Ice Cream Place. We are so grateful for the years of support from the ICP for this program that encourages local kids to keep reading over the summer.
The Library’s Book Club is also going strong this summer. We just finished our discussion of “The Worst Hard Time” by Timothy Egan. Great discussion and great treats!
Next month’s book is “This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild” by Nate Schweber.
Book Summary (from Missoula Public Library website):
In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers, led by Senator Pat McCarran, sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to logging, mining and private industry, the DeVotos entered the fight of their lives. Bernard and Avis built a broad grassroots coalition to sound the alarm — from Julia and Paul Child to Ansel Adams, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Alfred Knopf, Adlai Stevenson, and Wallace Stegner — while the very pillars of American democracy, embodied in free and public access to Western lands, hung in the balance. Their dramatic crusade would earn them censorship and blacklisting by Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover and Roy Cohn, and it even cost Bernard his life.
The Book Club will meet next on Thursday, Aug. 1 at 11 a.m. in the Seeley Lake Public Library.
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