Mary Krugerud Book Talk & Signing

Saturday, March 23, 2019, 1:30 PM

Please join us in celebrating this Dawson High School graduate’s lastest book!

Refreshments served.

Winter Reading Program for Adults

January 1, 2019 – February 28, 2019

Sign up starts January 2, 2019 for Winter Reads! When you sign up, you receive a tote bag* to carry home those great books from the library! You will also receive a bookmark to keep track of the books. Librarians will punch or stamp your bookmark for each book you read.

Get a Winter Reads mug* upon completion of reading 8 books!

*Offer good while supplies last.

Starting Monday, March 4, 2019

Join us at 5:15 p.m. for a 20 minute

Story Time geared for ages 2 – 4!

Stories, Songs, Movement Activities,

PLUS time to check out books and DVDs

New Day & Time

Dawson Public Library

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

6:30 – 7:30 PM

Everyone welcome!

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility’s cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty.

Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family’s long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption.

Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country—Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong. (Google Books)

Dawson Book Club Scheduled Book Reads.

Program Overview

One of the best ways to encourage learning is to spend time sharing books every day. Reading together helps develop important pre-reading skills that provide a solid reading foundation, a key to school and learning success. By reading less than 3 stories a day, you and your child will have read over 1,000 books in one year! Not to mention, sharing stories together is fun. 

How the program works:

Register and receive your library bag

Read to your child

Record each book read to your child

When you finish 500 books your child will receive a prize

After finishing 1,000 books your child will receive

1-A graduation party

2-A certificate of completion

3-An awesome jump start on success in school

Please contract the Dawson library (320) 769-2069 with any questions about the program!