Read, create and discover by meeting and connecting with authors and illustrators at your library.
Lee, crea y descubre al conocer y compartir con autores e ilustradores en tu biblioteca.
Your Author Series / Tu serie de autores
May 15, 2024 3:30 PM
Join us for a local YA author visit from Cambria Gordon, author of Trajectory.
Book Summary: Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is nothing like her hero Eleanor Roosevelt. She is timid and altogether uncertain that she has much to offer the world. And as World War II rages overseas, Eleanor is consumed with worry for her Jewish relatives in Europe. When a chance encounter proves her to be a one-in-a-generation math whiz—a fact she has worked hard all her life to hide—Eleanor gets recruited by the US Army and entrusted with the ultimate challenge: to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help America defeat its enemies in World War II and secure the world's freedom. This could be her chance to help save her family in Poland.
Soon, she's swept from the basement of an Ivy League engineering school to the desert of California to an Army Air Corps base at Pearl Harbor, and finally, she takes to the skies above the South Pacific.
But before she can solve this complicated problem, she must learn to unlock a bigger mystery: herself.
Critically acclaimed author of The Poetry of Secrets, Cambria Gordon weaves an extraordinary story of remarkable courage and the will to unearth our deepest secrets based on previously undiscovered true events.
June 21, 2024 11:00 AM
Join us in welcoming Michael Martinez, founder of LA Compost, a nonprofit organization providing compost access and education, as he reads from his new book Composting for Community.
Mateo’s father is a composter, but when the class falls silent during his career day presentation, he sets out to learn more about not only his father’s job but about composting itself. His dad’s seemingly ordinary job unveils a world of interconnectedness, family heritage, and environmental stewardship that changes Mateo’s perspective. Guided by his family, Mateo delves into the science of composting and witnesses the transformation of trash into nourishing compost that provides life for our planet.
Those attending the program will have the opportunity to take home a copy of Composting for Community. Intended for children ages 5 and up.
This program was made possible with the generous support of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles along with support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund.
June 24, 2024 2:00 PM
Join us in welcoming Michael Martinez, founder of LA Compost, a nonprofit organization providing compost access and education, as he reads from his new book Composting for Community.
Mateo’s father is a composter, but when the class falls silent during his career day presentation, he sets out to learn more about not only his father’s job but about composting itself. His dad’s seemingly ordinary job unveils a world of interconnectedness, family heritage, and environmental stewardship that changes Mateo’s perspective. Guided by his family, Mateo delves into the science of composting and witnesses the transformation of trash into nourishing compost that provides life for our planet.
Those attending the program will have the opportunity to take home a copy of Composting for Community. Intended for children ages 5 and up.
This program was made possible with the generous support of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles along with support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund.
Funding provided by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund and other generous donors.