Summer Reading Schedule

The Summer Reading Theme is "Let's Get Wild About Reading" along with "All Together Now" for ages 0 to 18. The Summer Reading activities will occur at the Malad City Park every Tuesday at 12:30 pm, starting June 6 and ending with a party in the park on July 18. There will be no summer reading activity on July 4. This year's summer reading will be structured a bit differently. The activities in the park will be divided into three age groups, 0-5 with Laura deJong, 6-11 with Carrie Jensen and Sherrie Thomas, and ages 12-18 with Jeni Sperry and Kathy Kent. Sign-up has begun and will end on June 6. We have so many fun activities planned this year. We hope every youth in the community will participate in our program. To sign up for the summer program, come to the Library, or use the QR code in the ad or on the papers your children brought home from school. Each child should set a reading goal in hours (10 is the minimum). The activities every week in the park are not mandatory to participate in Summer Reading. We want our kids to have something fun and constructive to do in the summer. We hope to have a record number sign up. We can't wait to see you! 

Adults welcome too!

We don't want adults to feel left out. Anessa Gibbs will be running the Summer Reading Adult Program. Contact Anessa at the Library for more information. The adult program will kick off at the same time the youth program starts. The library can be contacted at 1-208-766-2229.  Let's have a summer of reading.

Summer STEM 

Program

Due to a generous grant from the Idaho Stem Action Center of $50,000, the Library will be sponsoring a summer STEM program at the Library for teens. Those who will be in high school next year to those who just graduated from high school qualify for the program. Jason Horneker, an Engineer at Northrup Grumman, will teach Engineering principles and design with Solid Works software. Careen Horneker, a former ISU Graphics Art and Design professor will teach Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator software. The classes will run on Monday and Thursday evenings in June. We have limited space because each teen will be on a computer, so please call or come into the Library and sign up soon. Some of the equipment they will be learning are PC and Mac laptops,  Wacom Tablets, Banner and plotting printing, embossing, and many other engineering and graphic arts design elements. The Deadline will be May 31, so please reserve your spot now. We would like to thank Bridger deJong for his efforts in obtaining this grant.