Super Bowl Weekend Reads | Hoover Public Library

Super Bowl LVI

I don't pay any attention to professional football, but even I know that the Super Bowl is this Sunday, February 13, 2022. Before you watch the Los Angeles Rams take on the Cincinnati Bengals, get in the zone with these new football books!

FOR KIDS
Don't Throw It to Mo! by David A. Adler (2021-ebook on Overdrive)
Football's Greatest Hail Mary Passes and Other Crunch-Time Heroics by Matt Chandler (2020-ebook on Hoopla)
G.O.A.T. Football Teams by Joe Levit (2021-ebook on Hoopla)
Huddle Up! Cuddle Up! by Bethany Hegedus (2020)
Patrick Mahomes: New NFL Superstar by Jim Gallagher (2022)
Pigskins to Paintbrushes: The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes by Don Tate (2021-ebook on Hoopla)
Who Is Tom Brady? by James Buckley, Jr. (2021)

FOR TEENS
Kneel by Candace Buford (2021-ebook on Overdrive, audiobook on Hoopla)
Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin (2021-ebook on Hoopla)
May the Best Man Win by ZR Ellor (2021-ebook & audiobook on Overdrive)
Why We Fly by Kimberly Jones & Gilly Segal (2021-ebook on Overdrive, ebook & audiobook on Hoopla)

Target Age

Off-sides football

Football Family Fun

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

Goodbye, Summer! It's been great!

The End of Summer Reading

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...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Into the Library-Verse

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...

Are you ready for school?!

A Couple of School-Starting Kickoffs!

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!

Dave Holland, percussionist

Beat'n Path Drums

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

The Secret Agency

The Secret Agency

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,

Lend a helping hand at our Day of Play!

Day of Play

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.

Summer Movies at HPL

Watch a Movie at the Library!

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