Upper Sandusky Community Library

A woman holding a gift basket of prizes.

A young girl sitting on the floor surrounded by art supplies.

A woman holding a tote bag full of prizes.

A young girl sitting on a chair surrounded by bookshelves. She's squeezing a Squishmallow.

Congratulations to all of our Color Your World summer reading program winners!

A special thank you to the Miller Ferry for their donation of two tickets!

Here's what we're reading this week:

📚 The House Next Door by Darcy Coates
📚 The Order War by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
📚 Twelve Nights at Rotter House by J.W. Ocker
📚 Wife Number One by Elle Thorpe

What are you reading?

Here's what we're reading this week:

📚 A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
📚 Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
📚 Love You More by Lisa Gardner
📚 The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown

What are you reading?

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People browsing a table full of books. A sign on the wall says 1,395,125 pages.

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Congratulations to all of our 100 Book Clubbers for reading 100 books in a year!

By the numbers:
➡️ 113 readers accepted the challenge
➡️ 48 readers completed the challenge
➡️ 24 readers completed the challenge for the second time
➡️ 4,800 books read
➡️ 1,395,125 pages read

Here's what we're reading this week:

📚 The Truth of the Aleke by Moses Ose Utomi
📚 A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft
📚 The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North
📚 Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

What are you reading?

American flag waving. Text says Upper Sandusky Community Library will be closed in observance of Independence Day Friday, July 4th. We will be closing at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 3rd.

Please be aware of our hours this week:
➡️ Closing at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 3
➡️ Closed Friday, July 4

Here's what we're reading this week:

📚 The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
📚 The Fury by Alex Michaelides
📚 A Different Kind of Gone by Catherine Ryan Hyde
📚 The Alpine Yeoman by Mary Daheim

What are you reading?

Rotary Peace Poles

Learn about the Rotary Peace Pole Project >> rotarypeacepoles.world

A pole in a rose garden. The pole has "may peace be in our communities. may peace prevail on Earth" on all sides in different languages.

The peace pole is up in our rose garden! It features four different languages (English, Wyandotte, Spanish, and German) wishing peace within our community. This is a project led by the Rotary Club of Upper Sandusky.

One woman squirting colored powder on another at a park.

A little girl growling at the camera while covered in colored powder.

Two little girls covered in colored powder are reading a book page on an outside podium at a park.

A group of kids covered in colored powder standing at a podium and reading a page of a book.

Judging by the color explosion on the kids when they left, we'd say they had a blast at our Color Read at Stepping Stones last week!

Here's what we're reading this week:

📚 Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
📚 Way of the Wolf by Lindsay Buroker
📚 Dreaming of Flight by Catherine Ryan Hyde

What are you reading?

Watercolors on a piece of paper. Text says this week at the library June 23-28, 2025. Sign up for the Color Your World Summer Reading Program. Full schedule listed in original post.

Check out what's coming up at the library!

Full calendar >> usclibrary.org/event

Hands of different skin tones splayed out. Text says Upper Sandusky Community Library will be closed Juneteenth Freedom Day. Thursday, June 19th.

Heads up: We will be closed Thursday, June 19 for Juneteenth.

Find out what's happening at Color Your World Summer Reading Program >> tinyurl.com/bde7feka
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Full calendar >> usclibrary.org/event

WEDNESDAY
11 am - Tiny Tots StoryTime
2 pm - Color Read >> tinyurl.com/5su8s8yw

THURSDAY
Closed for Juneteenth

TUESDAY
11 am - Tech Connect
5:30 pm - LEGO® Night
5:30 pm - Tiny Tots StoryTime
6:30 pm - Common Readers >> tinyurl.com/5bjfwcvz

MONDAY
10 am - Tiny Tots StoryTime
11 am - Preschool StoryTime
*Registration begins for Amazing Library Race >> tinyurl.com/328y6dd7
*Registration begins for Crystals & Gems with Miss Patti >> tinyurl.com/bdhj6nty

A wash of warm colors on a paper background. Text says This week at the library June 16-20, 2025. Sign up for the Color Your World summer reading program! Full schedule listed in the original post.

Check out what's going on at the library this week!

Paper worlds with names written on them displayed on interior windows.

We're less than two weeks into our summer
reading program and we've almost reached the number
of adults signed up last year! Can you be the person to
help us make it over 100?

Brown paper underneath a large coloring sheet on a wall. A note is written on the brown paper that says color me. A pail of crayons sit on a table between two chairs.

Are we allowing you to color on the wall? Yes. Yes, we are. It's a Color Your World summer, after all!

Here's what we're reading this week:

📚 Network Effect by Martha Wells
📚 Storm Breaking by Mercedes Lackey
📚 When We Had Wings by Susan Meissner, Ariel Lawhon, & Kristina McMorris

What are you reading?

JULY
2 - Culture & Community Potluck 5:30 pm
17 - The 100 Book Club Reception 6 pm

Get in the know before it starts >> tinyurl.com/bde7feka

JUNE
2 - Touch a Truck 2 pm
5 - Hello Summer Party 12- 2 pm
11 - Bring Your Pet to the Library 10 am
11 - From Hive to Honey 6 pm
12 - Paint Party w/ Miss Lisa 2 pm
18 - Color Read 2 pm
25 - Crafts w/ Miss Jill 2 pm
26 - Crystals & Gems with Miss Patti 2 pm
28 - Amazing Library Race 10 am - 12 pm

Watercolors and paint splotches. Text says Events for summer reading May. Full schedule listed in original post.

Watercolors and paint splotches. Text says Events for summer reading June. Full schedule listed in original post.

Watercolors and paint splotches. Text says Events for summer reading July. Full schedule listed in original post.

Are ya ready for it? Color Your World Summer Reading Program kicks off this Saturday! See what we have in store for you! 👇

MAY
31 - Donut Day 9 am - 12 pm
31 - Yarn Bombing 12 pm

Silhouettes of soldiers walking in a line with American flags waving. Text says Upper Sandusky Community Library will be closed Monday, May 26th in observance of Memorial Day.

Plan ahead: We will be closed Monday, May 26 to observe Memorial Day.

book cover images for June 2025 LibraryReads Hall of Fame titles

Our June 2025 LibraryReads Hall of Fame titles include new works by favorite authors that public library workers have voted for consistently over the years! For more info about authors who have been named to the HOF, see libraryreads.org/HoF.

book cover images for LibraryReads Top 10 picks for June 2025

It's May 15th which means we can reveal the June 2025 LibraryReads Top 10 and Hall of Fame titles! Here are the Top 10 forthcoming adult books that public library colleagues are raving about! As always, a printable list can be found at libraryreads.org.

A woman and a man sitting on an oversized stack of books and reading. Text says What are you reading? BookTalk with Upper Sandusky Community Library.

This is what we're reading right now:

📚 The Surrogate Mother by Freida McFadden
📚 Clear by Carys Davies
📚 Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
📚 Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

What about you?

Kids standing on a sidewalk underneath an overhang, watching as it rains.

POV when it's your last library visit of the school year and you really didn't want to leave.

(It started to pour down rain as the class walked to the corner and they dashed back to the shelter of the library to wait for a bus instead.)

A man and a woman reading while sitting on an oversized stack of books. Text says What are you reading? BookTalk with Upper Sandusky Community Library.

This is what we're reading this week:

📚 The Hollow by Kiersten Modglin
📚 The Happy Housekeeper's Guide to Homicide by Blythe Baker
📚 The Omega Project by Roxy Collins

What are you reading?