Summer Reading: Dare to Read!

Dare to Read helps make reading a daily habit. Kids can pick up a game board log starting June 10th, color in squares every day they read or are read to this summer, and win a fabulous prize by reading all summer long. Just for picking up the log at the Library, kids can choose a free book! 

Programs kick off on June 15th with our Wednesdays on Stage series which includes storytellers, concerts, magicians, puppet and circus shows. On other days, kids can do fabulous art and science projects. All events will be outside in the Amphitheater behind the Library. Also check out Tuesdays for teens and tweens (see information below).

Click here to download a pdf of our schedule of events.

Some events require advance registration. Click here to sign up. 

Need some help finding great books? Our Children’s Book Pack includes ten hand-selected books based on themes you choose. Fourth through eighth graders can get a Personalized Reading List with five titles our Librarians recommend, and lovers of teen books can get a Teen Book Bundle with three specially selected books just for you.

Teen Summer Reading: Dare to Read!

This Summer, use your inner superpowers and DARE TO READ! Be it art, reading or writing, you can express your powers in whatever way makes YOU your favorite superhero. You'll receive a free book just for signing up in-person!

Sign-up at millvalleylibrary.org/teen to get entered in a raffle for a chance to win a prize and check out our Tuesday programs in the Amphitheater including GoGo Craft, Cartoon Art, and Zombie Escape.

Join the Teen Advisory Board

Are you interested in volunteering at the Mill Valley Public Library? The Mill Valley Public Library’s Teen Advisory Board (TAB) is back with an orientation Monday, June 13th at 3:30pm. Volunteer for Summer Reading Program events starting Wednesday, June 15th from 3:00pm-5:00pm Monday-Thursday. Other volunteer opportunities may become available throughout the summer.

Grades 6-12 only. Sign-up here to be a part of all the fun. 

Welcome Aboard: eBook and Digital Resource Classes

We all love the feel of a good book, but it's hard to argue with the convenience of cramming 25 books into the phone in your pocket for that long vacation, or road tripping with an audiobook without fumbling around changing scratched CDs. And streaming movies and documentaries to your smart TV or finding newspaper articles from all over the world, all for free? Marvelous! But how does one do such things? 

Find out at in these 1-hour introductions to eBooks and eAudio as well as the many digital resources available to you with your library card. If you haven't yet dipped your toes into the Library's digital waters, find out what you're missing.

No registration necessary. See a schedule of upcoming classes at millvalleylibrary.org/computers.

Civic Minded Book Club

Do you want to effect change in our society? Topics to be explored are the current global political climate, the Constitution, inequalities in the political and economic systems, the state of America and its citizens today, and alternatives for our future. This club meets monthly from 7 – 8:30pm on Zoom. 

Next up: 

Monday, June 27th  -1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei Click here to register.

Additional summer picks: 

Thursday, July 28th  -Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff Click here to register.

Thursday, August 25th  -Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West by Catherine Belton Click here to register.