Community Calendar

Come join us at Main to jump, shake, and shimmy the sillies out! Every Friday we’ll have stories, songs, and fun!

All ages welcome, best for children ages 1 to 5 years.

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to youthservicesandprogrammingstaff@davenportlibrary.com.

QC CAN's Reading Assistance Dogs are specially trained, along with their handler, to provide the environment needed to help children improve their reading skills!

This program is great for kids of all ages.

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to youthservicesandprogrammingstaff@davenportlibrary.com.

Discuss a different short story every month with a variety of different authors both current and classics. Shorts & Sweets meets at the Fairmount Branch every second Monday of the month at 10:00am. Copies of the story can be picked up at the Fairmount Information Services desk up to a month before the meeting.
September 14 “The Man of the Family” by Ruth Suckow from the December 1926 issue of The American Mercury
October 12 "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
November 9 “Exit Zero” by Marie-Helene Bertino (2025)
December 14 “A Kidnapped Santa Claus” by L. Frank Baum (1904)

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to reference@davenportlibrary.com.

Come enjoy stories, songs, rhymes, and plenty of playful fun! This afternoon storytime is a great way for little ones and their grown-ups to learn and grow together while building early literacy skills through reading and play. All ages welcome, best for children ages 0-5.

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to youthservicesandprogrammingstaff@davenportlibrary.com.

Join us for our Middle Grade Book Club, Tween the Pages!

Registration required. Books may be picked up at the Fairmount Branch. Copies are available while supplies last.

This club is for patrons ages 8 to 11.​

This month our book is Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan.

From the Publisher:

Ruth Chan loves her hometown in Toronto, hanging out with her best friends for life, and snacking on ketchup flavored potato chips, which are the best. What Ruth doesn’t love is having to move to Hong Kong after her dad gets a new job there.

Her mom is excited to reunite with her family, but it’s not the same for Ruth. In Hong Kong, her classes are harder, her Cantonese isn’t good enough, and her parents are never around. Ruth feels lonely and completely uprooted.

But as Ruth’s dad tells stories about her family, about how they relied on their strength, courage, and each other to survive the most difficult times, Ruth realizes that she too can be strong. Gradually, she puts down roots, knowing that home will always be where her heart is.

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to youthservicesandprogrammingstaff@davenportlibrary.com.

Celebrate the LGBTQ+ community every month with our Read with Pride book club! We read fiction and nonfiction titles by queer authors and/or featuring queer characters.

We meet the third Tuesday of the month at the Fairmount Branch at 6:30pm. Books are available on a first come, first serve basis at Fairmount. This program is best suited to adults. Registration is required.

September 2026 - Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
October 2026 - Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
November 2026 - Martyr by Kaveh Akbar
December 2026 - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
January 2027 - I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
February 2027 - Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai

QC CAN's Reading Assistance Dogs are specially trained, along with their handler, to provide the environment needed to help children improve their reading skills!

This program is great for kids of all ages.

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to youthservicesandprogrammingstaff@davenportlibrary.com.

Do you love to read and wish you could talk to other people about what you read? Then join Overbooked! The club meets on the third Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM. A variety of fiction, young adult fiction, and non-fiction books will be read. You can obtain a copy of the book at the meeting. If you miss the meeting, you can pick up a copy of the book at the Davenport Public Library Fairmount Branch at the Customer Service Desk.

This program is for adults.

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to reference@davenportlibrary.com

Come join us at Main to jump, shake, and shimmy the sillies out! Every Friday we’ll have stories, songs, and fun!

All ages welcome, best for children ages 1 to 5 years.

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to youthservicesandprogrammingstaff@davenportlibrary.com.

Come enjoy stories, songs, rhymes, and plenty of playful fun! This afternoon storytime is a great way for little ones and their grown-ups to learn and grow together while building early literacy skills through reading and play. All ages welcome, best for children ages 0-5.

We strive to make our programs inclusive to all. For accommodation requests, please reach out to youthservicesandprogrammingstaff@davenportlibrary.com.