What's happening at the Moorcroft Branch Library

We are excited for Moorcroft’s upcoming Jubilee celebration! Library staff will be giving away free books during many of the weekend’s events.

Youth patrons are invited to join us for the Jubilee Parade. We have room for up to 20 children to ride on our float. Parents will need to contact the library for more information.

Travel the USA @ The Moorcroft Branch Library! Adult readers are challenged to read six books from specific regions across the USA.

Books can be non-fiction about the specific area, written by an author from the area or be set in the area. Stop by and pick up your reading log today.

Summer reading program is in full swing. Young readers have been invited to Travel the World @ Your Library!

Participants can earn prizes for reading and attending events such as Movie Fridays or Storytime. All ages are welcome to join Miss Lacey each Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Robinson Park as she introduces games, food, language and animals from destinations around the world.

Our final summer reading event will be a family BBQ on July 12. We will kick off the BBQ with Storytime at 10 a.m. followed by prize drawings and lunch and water games.

Pinnacle Bank will grill the hot dogs donated by Coffee Cup Fuel Stop and Diehl’s Supermarket will be providing buns.

We will also have chips and drinks. Participants and their family members are welcome to join us for food and fun.

If you are unable to attend the BBQ, please bring reader passports to the library by July 11 so we can determine raffle entries. Prizes are sponsored by American Legion and VFW Auxiliaries, Blakeman Propane, Clearwater X-Spurts, Coffee Cup Fuel Stop, Deere Haven Liquor, Dewey’s Place, Donna’s Diner II, Flowtech Fueling, Key In Storage, Keyhole State Park, Moorcroft Equipment Rental, OC’s Storage, Paradise Foods and Pinnacle Bank.

 For the most up to date information on library happenings, please visit us online https://www.crookcountylibrary.org/moorcroft-branch.html. You can also follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

Please stop in or call the library at 307-756-3232, for more information or to sign up for upcoming events! 

Weekly Events: Wednesday, 10 a.m. – Storytime at Robinson Park through July 19, weather pending Wednesday, 7 p.m. – AA Meeting

Upcoming Events: June 30 1 p.m. – Movie Day, Rio. July 3, 2 p.m. – Red White and Blue Necklace Craft. July 4 – Library closed for Independence Day. July 6-9 – Join us for Jubilee events! July 12, 10 a.m. – Storytime followed by Summer Reading BBQ

New Youth Books:

K-3 – Ramen for Everyone, by Patricia Tanumihardja; Me on the MAP, by Joan Sweeney; A Ticket Around the World, by Natalia Diaz; Ancient Night, by David Alvarez; Spicy Spicy Hot!, by Lenny Wen; My Veggie Friends, by Eugene M. Gagliano; and Where’s My Joey?, by Wendy Winter.

Juvenile – Where There’s Smoke (Horse Country series #3), by Yamile Saied Mendez; Scary Stories for Young Foxes, by Christian McKay Heidicker; and The Furball Strikes Back (Bad Guys series/graphic novel), by Aaron Blabey.

Young Adult – This fall, six new students are joining the junior class at the elite Darkwood Academy. But they aren’t your regular overachieving teens. They’re DNA duplicates and these “similars”’ are joining the class alongside their originals. The Similars are all anyone can talk about. Who are they? What are the odds that all of them would be Darkwood students? And who is the madman who broke the law to create them? Emmaline Chance could care less. Her best friend, Oliver, died over the summer and it’s all she can do to get through each day without him. Then, she comes face-to-heartbreaking-face with Levi, Oliver’s exact DNA copy and one of the Similars. Emma wants nothing to do with the Similars, but she keeps getting pulled deeper into their world. She can’t escape the dark truths about them or her prestigious school. No one can be trusted, not even the boy she is falling for with Oliver’s face. The Similars, by Rebecca Hanover.