Home Sweet Home

Home is where the heart is.  And my heart belongs to books.  Do you know how many of our new books are about home?  A lot.  A LOT, A LOT!

PICTURE BOOKS
Agnes's Place by Marit Larsen (2021)
The Big House and the Little House by Yoshi Ueno (2021)
Everybody in the Red Brick Building by Anne Wynter (2021)
Finding Home by Estelí Meza (2021)
Goodbye, Old House by Margaret Wild (2021)
Hardly Haunted by Jessie Sima (2021)
Home by Tonya K. Lippert (2022)
Home: A Peek-Through Picture Book by Britta Teckentrup (2021)
A Home Again by Colleen Rowan Kosinski (2021)
Home for A While by Lauren Kerstein (2021)
Home Is . . . by Hannah Barnaby (2021)
Home Is In Between by Mitali Perkins (2021)
A Home Under the Stars by Andy Chou Musser (2021)
A House by Kevin Henkes (2021)
A House for Every Bird by Megan Maynor (2021)
House Mouse by Michael Hall (2021)
The House Next Door by Claudine Crangle (2021)
The House of Grass and Sky by Mary Lyn Ray (2021)
Julia's House Goes Home by Ben Hatke (2021)
Mi Casa Is My Home by Laurenne Sala (2021)
The Shape of Home by Rashin Kheiriyeh (2021)
There's a Ghost in This House by Oliver Jeffers (2021)
Tia Fortuna's New Home by Ruth Behar (2022)
Time for Bed, Old House by Janet Costa Bates (2021)

BEGINNING READERS
Bear and Friends: A House for Mouse by Jody Jensen Shaffer (2021)
The Chicken House by Doreen Cronin (2021)

NOVELS
A Duet for Home by Karina Yan Glaser (2022)
The House That Wasn't There by Elana K. Arnold (2021)
A Soft Place to Land by Janae Marks (2021)
A Song Called Home by Sara Zarr (2022)
The View from the Very Best House in Town by Meera Trehan (2022)

NONFICTION
How Its Built: House by Becky Harrick (2022)

COMING SOON!
Erin Napier, co-host of Home Town, has written a picture book -- The Lantern House!  It was illustrated by Adam Trest and published this week.

Target Age

It's time for books and blitzes at Hoover Public Library!  Football Family Fun is coming to the Plaza on Saturday, August 5, 2023 from 1-4 p.m.  Test your skill with a football toss, a football video game, or play the blast-from

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Summer Reading 2023 is coming to an end!  Don't miss your chance to finish up your reading logs, redeem your prizes, and enter the raffle drawings!  You have until 9 p.m. Read More...
Are you a fan of Miles Morales and the Spider-Man multiverse?  Have you seen the new movie?  Have you heard that the library is hosting an event to celebrate?  Head Into the Library-Verse in the Kid Zone this Saturday Read More...

Summer Reading is winding down, and school is just around the corner.  And the library is hosting two events for students that are entering a milestone year!

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Our sixth and final week of Summer Reading shows brings another new act to our Library Theatre stage!  Beat'n Path Rhythm Events is a family-fun celebration of rhythm, story and song with percussionist Dave Holland.  Get ready to

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Our fifth week of Summer Reading shows welcomes more newcomers to the Library Theatre stage!  New to us, now -- NOT new to wowing large audiences.  Tapping into their GRAMMY-winning original catalog from rapper and hip hop artist Secret Agent 23 Skidoo,

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Celebrate community helpers at our upcoming Day of Play on Saturday, July 8, 2023!  Visit the Kid Zone anytime from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and explore a variety of imaginative play stations.  

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Since the library is closed on Tuesday, July 4, 2023 for Independence Day, we will not be hosting a performer that week.  But fear not!  We will still have something fun happening in our Library Theatre!  We'll be showing a couple of movies on the big screen -- recent releases based on popular ch

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