Hawaii State
Public Library System

• March 26, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 10:45 am
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  An event every week that begins at 10:00am on Tuesday, repeating until January 1, 2020

• Categories: Books, Community, Learning, Music, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-775-8881

Every Tuesday we invite your littlest ones to explore their world through stories, songs, movement, and FUN!

The librarian uses fun, engaging techniques and activities to develop positive feelings in babies and toddlers toward books and reading. These activities provide an environment for babies and toddlers to exercise important motor skills and practice using their vocabulary, and are the beginning steps toward literacy and educational success.  Recommended for ages 0-3, siblings welcome!

Children build language and literacy skills through the five practices of early literacy: talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing.

All programs are subject to change. If you require an auxiliary aid or accommodation due to a disability, please contact the library at least 7 days before the program date.

• March 27, 2019 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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  An event every week that begins at 2:30pm on Wednesday, repeating until January 1, 2020

• Categories: Art, Community, Entertainment, Learning, Technology
• Contact: 808-775-8881

Every Wednesday at the Honoka`a Public Library we bring out thousands of LEGOs and say, “Let’s go!“

Our LEGO Build Club challenges kids (and adults) of all ages to craft, create, and construct. Start off with one of our leveled challenge cards and stay for free play!

Challenge cards are organized by skill level and provide opportunities to work on problem solving and develop math and physics concepts, fine motor skills, inquiry skills, and hand-eye coordination. A challenge may be as simple as “build something with only four legos” or “build something that starts with the letter B” but may be as complex as “build a challenging maze and ask someone to solve it with a mini action figure – don’t forget dead ends!”

Recommended for ages 3 and up! Always free.

All programs are subject to change. If you require an auxiliary aid or accommodation due to a disability, please contact the library at least 7 days before the program date. 

• April 11, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-775-8881

The second Thursday of every month, the Honoka`a Library hosts the Hamakua Friends of the Library Book Club.

Open to all, this meeting will discuss poetry by Mary Oliver.

All programs are subject to change. If you require an auxiliary aid or accommodation due to a disability, please contact the library at least 7 days before the program date.

• May 9, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-775-8881

The second Thursday of every month, the Honoka`a Library hosts the Hamakua Friends of the Library Book Club.

Open to all, this meeting will discuss Lucinda Fleeson’s Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of An Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island. “Like so many of us, Lucinda Fleeson wanted to escape what had become a routine life. So, she quit her big-city job, sold her suburban house, and moved halfway across the world to the island of Kauai to work at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Imagine a one-hundred-acre garden estate nestled amid ocean cliffs, rain forests, and secluded coves. Exotic and beautiful, yes, but as Fleeson awakens to this sensual world, exploring the island’s food, beaches, and history, she encounters an endangered paradise-the Hawaii we don’t see in the tourist brochures.”

All programs are subject to change. If you require an auxiliary aid or accommodation due to a disability, please contact the library at least 7 days before the program date.

• June 13, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-775-8881

The second Thursday of every month, the Honoka`a Library hosts the Hamakua Friends of the Library Book Club.

Open to all, this meeting will discuss Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah, hailed as “the compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.”

All programs are subject to change. If you require an auxiliary aid or accommodation due to a disability, please contact the library at least 7 days before the program date.

• July 11, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-775-8881

The second Thursday of every month, the Honoka`a Library hosts the Hamakua Friends of the Library Book Club.

Open to all, this meeting will discuss Educated by Tara Westover. “Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.”

All programs are subject to change. If you require an auxiliary aid or accommodation due to a disability, please contact the library at least 7 days before the program date.

• August 8, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-775-8881

The second Thursday of every month, the Honoka`a Library hosts the Hamakua Friends of the Library Book Club.

Open to all, this meeting will discuss Becoming by Michelle Obama. “An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.”

All programs are subject to change. If you require an auxiliary aid or accommodation due to a disability, please contact the library at least 7 days before the program date.

• September 12, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-775-8881

The second Thursday of every month, the Honoka`a Library hosts the Hamakua Friends of the Library Book Club.

Open to all, this meeting will discuss Richard Powers’ The Overstory. “The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity’s self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming.”

All programs are subject to change. If you require an auxiliary aid or accommodation due to a disability, please contact the library at least 7 days before the program date.