Join us for another community-wide celebration of reading and literature! This year’s title is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain - a book the entire family can enjoy.

We hope you’ll read (or re-read) this entertaining book, then come together to share and explore ideas. Events and activities will be offered throughout February in a variety of venues and formats, including readings, lectures, interactive presentations, dramatic and visual arts, discussions, film screenings, exhibits, and family activities.

Selected Read Me Treasure Valley events

For more events throughout the Treasure Valley, visit www.readmetv.com or see this printable PDF. 

Read Me Treasure Valley is a one-book program for adults and older teens, offered through a partnership between Ada Community Library, Boise Public Library, The Cabin, The Idaho Statesman and Boise State University's The Story Initiative.  (Read Me Treasure Valley replaces The Big Read.)   See one-book selections for past years.

Wednesday

Feb. 1

10:00 a.m.

Kickoff Event
Anne Morrison Park

Join us at Anne Morrison Park by the river at the raft take-out at 10:00 a.m. for the kickoff of this year's one-book project! 

Tuesday

Feb. 14

7:30 p.m.

Ron Powers - Dangerous Water
BSU Special Events Center

Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, playwright, and non-fiction writer with two biographies about Mark Twain --Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain, and Mark Twain: A Life. 

Thursday

Feb. 16
6:30 p.m.

Theatre sans Limites - The Best of Twain

Ada Community Library (Victory Rd) - Forrey Room

Selected humorous readings from the legendary Samuel Clemens.

Thursday

Feb. 23

7:00 p.m. 

Michael Shelden - Man in White
Boise Public Library - Main Library Hayes Auditorium

Sheldon is a Twain biographer and author of Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years.

Thursday

Mar. 1

7:00 p.m. 

Alternative Book Cover Contest

Yanke Center

Reception.

Sunday

Mar. 4

2:00 p.m. 

Staged Reading of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Boise Public Library - Main Library Hayes Auditorium

Compiled and directed by Carole Whiteleather.

Monday

Mar. 5

7:00 p.m. 

Theatre sans Limites - The Best of Twain

Boise Public Library - Main Library Hayes Auditorium

Selected humorous readings from the legendary Samuel Clemens.

Thursday

Mar. 8

7:00 p.m.

Brad Roghaar as Mark Twain
Event Location TBD

Roghaar is an English professor at Weber State University and a seasoned portrayer of Mark Twain.

Thursday

Mar. 15

7:00 p.m. 

Special Ides of March Celebration
The Cabin

For book clubs and readers.