Library Calendar

Events in July 2025

Online Speaker Series: Marie Lu

Online Speaker Series: Rex Ogle

Collage Art with Michael Albert

17 Online Speaker Series: Marie Lu Online Speaker Series: Marie Lu 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm July 17, 2025 Discerning the Truth with Marie Lu (9th-12th Grade) Explore the intricate world of Legend with Marie Lu as she encourages readers to look beyond the surface and reveal hidden secrets. Explore the depths of deceit, battle for power, and the lengths characters will go to unmask the Truth. Legend is a dystopian novel where two unlikely characters, June and Day, cross paths in search for the Truth. Can they set aside their differences and preconceptions for the greater good? Readers will devour Marie Lu’s words as they are challenged to think critically about the world around them and reminded to never judge a book by its cover. Register now for an event you don’t want to miss! About the Author: Marie Lu is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Legend trilogy and The Young Elites trilogy. She graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry, working for Disney Interactive Studios as a Flash artist. Now a full-time writer, she spends her spare time reading, drawing, playing Assassin’s Creed, and getting stuck in traffic. She lives in Los Angeles, California (see above: traffic), with one husband, one Chihuahua mix, and two Pembroke Welsh corgis. Library and At-Home Activity Pages Register Today! The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Vail Public Library. More

23 Online Speaker Series: Rex Ogle Online Speaker Series: Rex Ogle 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm July 23, 2025 Illuminating Hope and Grace in the Face of Hardship with Rex Ogle (5th-8th Grade) This event will be 45 minutes in length. You’re invited to join us online with award-winning author Rex Ogle as he talks to viewers about his struggles to navigate sixth grade as written about in his book Free Lunch. Instead of giving him lunch money, Rex’s mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a wealthy school district, better-off kids crowd impatiently behind him as he tries to explain to the cashier that he’s on the free meal program. The lunch lady is hard of hearing, so Rex has to shout. Free Lunch is the story of Rex’s efforts to navigate his first semester of sixth grade—who to sit with, not being able to join the football team, Halloween in a handmade costume, classmates and a teacher who take one look at him and decide he’s trouble—all while wearing secondhand clothes and being hungry. His mom and her boyfriend are out of work, and life at home is punctuated by outbursts of violence. Halfway through the semester, his family is evicted and ends up in government-subsidized housing in view of the school. Rex lingers at the end of last period every day until the buses have left, so no one will see where he lives. Unsparing and realistic, Free Lunch is a story of hardship threaded with hope and moments of grace. Rex’s voice is compelling and authentic, and Free Lunch is a true, timely, and essential work that illuminates the lived experience of poverty in America. Register now to join the conversation! About the Author: Rex Ogle is the author of Free Lunch, winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; Punching Bag, a New York Public Library Best Book; Abuela Don’t Forget Me, finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; and Road Home, which received a Printz Honor and a Stonewall Book Award Honor. He lives in Los Angeles, California. Library and At-Home Activity Pages Register Today! The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Vail Public Library. More

31 Collage Art with Michael Albert Collage Art with Michael Albert 10:00 am – 12:00 pm July 31, 2025 Looking for a unique, colorful way to get creative this summer? Pop Artist Michael Albert is bringing his famous Cereal Box Collage Workshop to Vail Public Library! Join us at the library for a hands-on collage workshop where participants will have a chance to create and take home their own masterpieces using Albert’s materials of choice, recycled cereal boxes & other colorful cardboard packages including cookie boxes, cracker boxes, soda cartons & more. All participants will receive a free signed poster of one of Albert’s creations as a special gift for joining him in this creative art making session! You don’t need to reserve your spot, but it is always great to know you’re coming! To RSVP or get more info call 970-479-2187 or email lmegna-davis@vail.gov More