Friends of the Killeen Public Library

10/24/2026

Book and cute dogs! Count us in!!!

10/18/2026

Pasta!!!

🍝📚 Happy National Pasta Day! 📚🍝

October 17 is National Pasta Day, and what better way to celebrate than with some pasta-tively fun books?! 🤣🍝

Whether it's a magical pot overflowing with spaghetti, a spaghetti-loving monkey, or a story about being yourself, there's a pasta-themed book for everyone!

🍝 Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola

🍝 More Spaghetti, I Say! by Rita Golden Gelman

🍝 Super Spaghetti by Rebecca Donnelly

🍝 Spaghetti Eddie by Ryan SanAngelo

🍝 Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun by Maria Dismondy

Now for the important question... 👀

What's your favorite kind of pasta? 🍝 And have you read any of these books?

10/17/2026

Friends of the Killeen Public Library are out in full force supporting the Killeen Public Library!!!

10/16/2026

Books are just flying off the tables!!! Come on down!!!

10/15/2026

We had so much fun meeting members of our community at the 2025 Killeen Night Market. We hope to see you again on Friday, 16 October where we will have books for sale.

10/15/2026

Stop by the Killeen Night Market Night Market and buy books for your kids. All books will be $1.

10/09/2026

BANNED BOOK WEEK:

Member Timi D's pick for Banned Book Week is The World According to Garp by John Irving. She chose this book because: Chaos is inevitable, we may as well embrace it.

Books with LGBTQ+ characters or themes have been the single most frequently challenged category in the United States in recent years; the American Library Association reports that titles representing LGBTQIA+ lives have dominated its most-challenged lists since 2021. Objections range from age-appropriateness to the claim that such content is inherently sexual. The pattern is neither new nor only American: the United Kingdom’s Section 28 (1988–2003) barred schools from “promoting” homosexuality, and Russia’s 2013 “gay propaganda” law — extended to all ages in 2022 — has been used to remove LGBTQ+ books from sale.

Source: American Library Association, Office for Intellectual Freedom

10/09/2026

BANNED BOOK WEEK:

Today's featured banned book comes from member Timi D. The book is A Prayer of Owen Meany by John Irving. She choose this book because:

Messy redemptions are still redemptions.

According to the American Library Association, this book was banned on the basis of:

Religious objection is among the oldest and most widespread grounds for restricting books. Challenges of this kind target works seen as blasphemous, sacrilegious, or hostile to a faith — and, conversely, works said to promote a rival religion or the occult. The Catholic Church maintained a formal register of forbidden books, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, from 1559 until it was discontinued in 1966; today many states retain blasphemy laws, and in the United States the American Library Association records “religious viewpoint” among the reasons books are challenged each year.

Source: American Library Association, Office for Intellectual Freedom

10/09/2026