- A parent or caregiver and daughter (ages 9-12) discuss an assigned chapter book they have read together.
- Fun crafts and light refreshments are included.
- Families must have a current Provo City Library card or registered Orem Library card to participate.
- Held the fourth Tuesday of the month from 7:00 - 8:00 pm in the Story Room, #117.
- Preregister online at the beginning of each month. Please register both the child and the parent or caregiver.
January 22
7:00 - 8:00 pm | Story Room
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm
Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows up. He’s bossy. He’s cranky. And weirdly enough . . . he looks a lot like Ellie’s grandfather, a scientist who’s always been slightly obsessed with immortality. Could this gawky teenager really be Grandpa Melvin? Has he finally found the secret to eternal youth?
February 26
7:00 - 8:00 pm | Story Room
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influence imaginable-their grandmother!
March 26
7:00 - 8:00 pm | Story Room
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
April 23
7:00 - 8:00 pm | Story Room
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in appearance, she can perhaps make up for in courage. When her father comes home with a tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must travel to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father insists that he will not let her go, but she responds, “Cannot a Beast be tamed?”