Read Together Diamond Bar 2025
*This year, our Read Together Diamond Bar 2025 topic will be Earth Day, which is on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. We will have book discussions and other interesting programs planned! The annual essay contest “How a Book Changed My Life” for teens will also take place in April as part of RTDB. It is open to teens 13-18 who are encouraged to write a letter to their favorite author about how a book they wrote changed their life.
*There are many exciting events planned for April, as RTDB 2025 will be in full swing. Here are the books chosen:
- Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen (Adult Fiction)
- Fault Lines by Nora Shalaway Carpenter (Young Adult)
- One Day This Tree Will Fall by Leslie Barnard Booth (K thru second grade)
- The Strange Wonder of Roots by Evan Griffith. (Middle Readers)
*On Saturday, March 8, 2025, 2 PM, the authors of Women of Walt Disney Imagineering, Kathy Rogers and Elisabete (Eli) Minceff Erlandson, two authors of this book, will reflect on their trailblazing theme park careers. Ms. Rogers was Executive Show Producer and Ms. Erlandson was Principal Concept Architect at Disney. Please join us in the Diamond Bar Library Windmill Room to hear the lively stories about one of our favorite theme parks and the women who helped make it all happen.
*The closing event for RTDB where the essay winners will be recognized will be on Saturday, April 26, 2 PM in the Diamond Bar Library Windmill Room. Evan Griffith, the author of The Strange Wonder of Roots, will present a Writer’s Workshop in the morning and then speak in the afternoon.
Read Together Diamond Bar 2024
The RTDB Friends’ committee and the Diamond Bar Library planned a month of literary festivities around the 2024 book picks that took place from April 3 to April 27. There are many interesting activities for adults, teens, and children at the Diamond Bar Library to discover here: https://lacountylibrary.org/location/diamond-bar-library/
The closing event was Saturday, April 27 where we presented awards to the three teen authors of “How a Book Changed My Life Student Essay Contest”. Author Jessica Kim spoke about her life and her inspiration for Stand Up, Yumi Chung!
For more information on the essay contest, go here.
We had a great turn out!
Author Jessica Kim talks about her upbringing
Jessica talks about her inspiration for “Stand Up Yumi Chung!”
Author Jessica Kim congratulates the essay contest winners Sydney Applebaum (third from the right), Lilia Dahhak (second from the right), and Luz Gaspar-Lopez (far right.)
The essay contest winners with members of Diamond Bar’s AAUW (American Association of University Women.) The essay contest winners are Sydney Applebaum (4th from the left), Lilia Dahhak (6th from the left), and Luz Gaspar-Lopez (5th from the right.)
Go here to read the winning essays.