Read-a-thon: MI Right to Read

Celebrate Banned Books Week by reading in the Library's Breckenridge Room. Coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and hot cider available. Ages 12 and up.

MI Right to Read is a grassroots coalition of concerned Michigan residents organized by the Michigan Library Association.

The coalition opposes any attempts to ban books from Michigan libraries based on content subjectively deemed inappropriate. Its purpose is to educate the public as well as propose and support legislation that protects First Amendment rights and intellectual freedom. https://www.mirighttoread.com/

The American Library Association celebrates Banned Books Week October 5 - October 11, 2025 and states, "Current efforts to ban books and information held in schools, libraries, archives, and bookstores are a truth close to fiction – namely, the depiction of extreme censorship by an oppressive regime in George Orwell’s cautionary and prescient tale 1984. The Banned Books Week 2025 theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights." https://www.ala.org/bbooks/banned

Stickers, buttons, and other ALA swag available while supplies last.

Censorship is so 1984.

You may also like the following events from Madison Heights Public Library:

• Next Monday, 29th September, 07:00 pm, LitWits - The Frozen River in Madison Heights
• Next Tuesday, 30th September, 10:30 am, Toddler Tuesdays in Madison Heights
• Next Saturday, 4th October, 10:30 am, Storytime Saturdays in Madison Heights