Children’s Librarian Kirsten Nilsson flipped on the Summit County Library’s Flashlight Reader’s Club a decade ago.

“A patron came to me and asked if we could start a book club with parents and kids,” she said. “I had done one with my daughter, who is now in her 30s, when she was in fifth grade. And I thought it was great.”

The club, designed for students in grades four through six and their grownups, usually meets at 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month at the Kimball Junction Branch. But since the library is closed June 19 to observe Juneteenth, the club will meet on June 26, Nilsson said.

“We’re reading ‘The Fairy Tale Fan Club’ by Richard Ayoade,” she said. “It’s fun because it’s a book of letters from fairy-tale characters who ask questions about why this happened in their t

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