Hastings Reads

Hastings Reads is a community-wide reading program that seeks to encouraging reading and discussion of books and the ways in which they can help us understand the lives and experiences of ourselves and others. Everyone is invited to read the books and participate in the events. Let’s start reading and talking today!


Book selection for 2008

Three books that span all ages and reading levels have been chosen for the 2008 Hastings Reads.
Planet Patrol: A Kids' Action Guide to Earth Care by Marybeth Lorbiecki,
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert

How can you participate?

Read one or more of the books chosen for this year’s Hastings Reads. Read alone, read aloud, read with others or do all three. Attend any of the Hastings Reads events scheduled throughout February and March. Check the event schedule by clicking here (pdf). Check for changes in the schedule and added events at the Hastings Reads website: www.hastingsreads.com

Its what we all do…..together!

Hastings Reads is a collaboration of Hastings Area Schools, Pleasant Hill Library, United Way of Hastings, Hastings Area Senior Center, Lifeworks, and Hastings Community Education.

Hastings Reads is funded by the Ruth Gale & George W. Doffing Charitable Fund, the United Way of Hastings, the Hastings Public School Foundation and Friends of the Pleasant Hill Library.



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119 West Second Street in downtown Hastings
located in the
1st National Bank Building

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United Way of Hastings
PO Box 353
Hastings, MN 55033-0353
(651) 438-3337
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