READ TOGETHER DIAMOND BAR 2022

The closing program for RTDB 2022 will be Saturday, November 19, 2022 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm.  Please join us at the Diamond Bar Library Windmill Room for an interesting and informative afternoon.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CORRECT TIME ON NOVEMBER 19 IS 2:00 pm.

Join us and meet author Wendelin Van Draanen as we discuss her book, the Read Together Diamond Bar Teen and Adult book selection of the year:  Wild Bird.  We will also award the prizes for the winners of the “How a Book Changed My Life” essay contest.

Advance registration is required and will begin on November 12, 2002 at 3:00 pm.  To sign up, see Diamond Bar Library staff, or register online at Visit.LACountyLibrary.org/events and filter by location or event date.  This is co-sponsored by the LA County Library and the Diamond Bar Friends of the Library.

HOW A BOOK CHANGED MY LIFE

TEEN ESSAY CONTEST

All of the entries were received for the annual “How a Book Changed My Life” Teen Essay Contest.  We are always impressed and amazed at the wonderful and thoughtful essays we receive…..and this year is no exception.  Thank you to all the students who shared their essays with us.  The winners will be notified on November 10.  The three top entries will be announced and recognized on Saturday, November 19 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm at the closing event for Read Together Diamond Bar. 

You will meet the author of Wild Bird, Wendelin van Draanen, who will present the prizes to the three essay winners.  Everyone is invited to attend this event on Saturday, November 19 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm.

Look for these two ongoing RTDB programs for teens:

Tell Us What You Think!

Monday, October 3 to November 14

Share your thoughts on Wild Bird and you’ll be entered into a drawing for a chance to win prizes including books and other library swag!  Each week a new question will be displayed in the library along with an entry sheet.  For ages 13-17

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Wilderness Survival 101 for teens

Friday, November 18, 3:30 – 4:30 pm

Want to be better prepared for your next hiking or camping adventure!  Come to the library and learn the many uses and benefits of paracord in the Great Outdoors and then learn how to make your very own paracord bracelet with compass.  You can also win prizes by competing in a group tent pitching challenge.  For ages 13-17.  Advance registration is required and will begin on November 11, 2022 at 3:30 pm. 

There are so many interesting, fun, and educational programs planned at the Diamond Bar Library to celebrate community reading and sharing through Read Together Diamond Bar 2022.

Besides, Read Together Diamond Bar, look for the year-round programs offered for children, teens, and adults. Belonging to the Los Angeles County Library system means you have access to their huge  collection of books,  audiobooks, e-books, movies, TV shows all for free, 24/7. You can borrow a laptop from one of the libraries, borrow everything from power tools to bike repair kits to gardening equipment. Free courses are offered through the library on everything from learning a new language to homework help.

The Bad Seed by Jory John and Pete Oswald is suggested for children to read. There is a bad seed. A baaaaaaaad seed. How bad? Do you really want to know? Can a bad seed change his baaaaaaaad? Read this book with your children and find out.

The adult and teen selection, Wild Bird, is from the award-winning author of The Running Dream and Flipped comes a remarkable portrait of a girl who has hit rock bottom but begins a climb back to herself at a wilderness survival camp.

3:47 a.m. That’s when they come for Wren Clemmens. She’s hustled out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced march into the desert. This is what happens to kids who’ve gone so far off the rails, their parents don’t know what to do with them anymore. This is wilderness therapy camp. Eight weeks of survivalist camping in the desert. Eight weeks to turn your life around. Yeah, right.

The Wren who arrives in the Utah desert is angry and bitter, and blaming everyone but herself. But angry can’t put up a tent. And bitter won’t start a fire. Wren’s going to have to admit she needs help if she’s going to survive.

"I read Wild Bird in one long mesmerized gulp. Wren will break your heart—and then mend it." —Nancy Werlin, National Book Award finalist for The Rules of Survival

"Van Draanen’s Wren is real and relatable, and readers will root for her." —VOYA, starred review

Source: Publisher

The author, Wendelin Van Draanen was born on January 6, 1965, in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of chemists who emigrated from Holland. She worked as a math teacher and then as a computer science teacher before becoming an author. Wendelin Van Draanen began her writing career with a screenplay and soon switched to adult novels and then children's books. She is best known for her Sammy Keyes series of novels, which she started writing in 1997, featuring a teenage detective named Samantha Keyes. Her popular Sammy Keyes series had been nominated four times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children's Mystery and won with "Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief". Her Shredderman series also yielded a Christopher Medal for Secret Identity. She has also authored several novels such as: How I Survived Being a Girl and Flipped.

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READ TOGETHER DIAMOND BAR FACT SHEET Fall 2022

One City—One Book

What is Read Together Diamond Bar?

Read Together Diamond Bar is an innovative month-long annual program to unite people of all ages and backgrounds and encourage reading at the same time. In the Fall of 2022, the Friends of the Diamond Bar Library are inviting all people in Diamond Bar and the surrounding areas to join together to read Wild Bird by Wendelin van Draanen and The Bad Seed by Jory John and Pete Oswalk.

What is Wild Bird about?

The Adult and Teen selection, Wild Bird, is from the award-winning author of The Running Dream and Flipped. This is a remarkable portrait of Wren, a young girl who has hit rock bottom but begins a climb back to herself at a wilderness survival camp. The Wren who arrives in the Utal desert is angry and better and blaming everyone but herself. But angry can’t put up a tent. And bitter won’t start a fire. Wren’s going to have to admit she needs help if she’ going to survive.

What book is available for younger readers?

The Bad Seed, a charming picture book, shares similar themes of the RTDB Adult/Teen selection. In The Bad Seed by Jory John and Pete Oswalt, a sunflower seed acts badly because others think it is bad, but realizes it is never too late to change its behavior even if others still judge it

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