Library

Author Talk with Clark Fair
Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
HPL Fireside Reading Lounge

Clark Fair and Gary Titus have collaborated on writing and publishing a new book that covers the complex and wide-ranging history of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge cabins. 

Design a LEGO creation related to the Summer Reading Theme: Level Up at Your Library! Use your imaginations to create something that demonstrates the theme! Follow your own ideas, not LEGO instructions! (No LEGO sets, please.)

Bring your creations to the library between Sat. July 19 and Wed. July 23. 

Judging will take place on July 24. Winners will be announced at the End of Summer Reading Party on Saturday July 26. 

Join us at the library to meet Alaska author and storyteller Aurora Hardy, as she shares her historical fiction novel, The Ghost of the Kenai. The novel place in the late 1700s in Alaska on the Kenai River where characters are trying to uncover the mystery of a ghost while Alaska Native and Russian culture ultimately come into conflict. 

It's time to turn in your reading trackers!

Return your trackers to the library front desk by 6pm on Friday, July 25th to have them count for prize giveaways at the party on Saturday.

End of summer reading party—games, music, prizes, hot dogs and ice cream! Winners of the Lego contest will be announced! All summer reading participants and their families are welcome! 

Play bingo, win prizes. For elementary aged kids. 

Walk with Friends of the Library, library staff and BOB the Bookmobile in the parade! Bring your chess piece hat, wear white or black.

Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by a caregiver. 

On July 4 meet at the Homer High School parking lot with your megaphones and if you want, costumes, ready to walk with BOB! Parade time TBA. For more information about the parade, check the Homer Chamber of Commerce website. 

Join us for the watch party in the library! Counts as a side quest!

Or register and watch at home. 3rd - 6th grade.

Join us as award-winning author and summer reading champion Katherine Applegate talks to viewers about her enthusiastically heartwarming novel in verse, Odder.