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Giant Game Night

Multiple meeples

We're supersizing our next teen event! Play giant versions of your favorite games at Giant Game Night next Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. Sign up online today!

And, just in case you don't know, you can check out a GIANT variety of board games from the library to host your own game night. Both the Kid Zone and the Fiction Department have quite a large collection. And here are some new books that insert gaming into your reading life!

Game Over by M.C. Ross
Gamer Girls: Gnat vs Spyder by Andrea Towers
The Greatest Stories Ever Played: Video Games and the Evolution of Storytelling by Dustin Hansen
The Jump by Brittney Morris
Minecraft Amazing Bite-Size Builds: Over 20 Awesome Mini-Projects
Mr. Lemoncello's Very First Game by Chris Grabenstein
Play the Game by Charlene Allen
Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf
Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling by Elise Bryant
These Deadly Games by Diana Urban
Virtually Me by Chad Morris
Who Was Alex Trebek? by Pam Pollack

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