Hawaiʻi State
Public Library System

• October 21, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
• Categories: Community, Entertainment, Games
• Contact: 808-293-8935

We’re putting the BOO in BOOKS! Celebrate the spooky season with us.

Show off your costume, play games, win prizes, and share the library love.

All ages welcome.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required.

• November 7, 2025 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs
• Contact: 808-293-8935

Soon to be a Netflix Film

A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER by: Chicago Tribune * The View * Southern Living * USA Today

“For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow’s unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.” – Author website

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change. See a schedule of upcoming events at librarieshawaii.org/events.

• November 18, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Community, Learning
• Contact: 808-293-8935

Join Kahuku HS Alumni Mariaha Ah You, Kēhau Hikila, and Lucy Mariteragi as they share their new book.

They will also discuss strategies for using picture books and storytelling to help reduce math anxiety.

Fun math activity to follow.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library Kahuku (FOLK).

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change. See a schedule of upcoming events at librarieshawaii.org/events.

• November 25, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
• Categories: Films & Movies
• Contact: 808-293-8935

Based on a Battle of the Books selection, The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.

A young orphan named Hugo Cabret lives in a train station in 1930s Paris and tries to repair a mechanical man built by his father. Eventually, Hugo befriends a filmmaker and his goddaughter, who help him understand the mystery of his dad’s invention.

Rated: PG

Runtime: 126 minutes

Popcorn will be provided on a first come, first served basis.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library Kahuku (FOLK).

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change. See a schedule of upcoming events at librarieshawaii.org/events.

• December 5, 2025 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
• Categories: Branch book clubs
• Contact: 808-293-8935

AN INDIE NEXT PICK!

“From the #1 bestselling author in Japan comes a celebration of books, cats, and the people who love them.

“Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. Then, a talking cat appears with an unusual request. The feline asks for—or rather, demands—the teenager’s help in saving books with him. The world is full of lonely books left unread and unloved, and the cat and Rintaro must liberate them from their neglectful owners.” – HarperCollins publisher website

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change. See a schedule of upcoming events at librarieshawaii.org/events.