Summit Reads Announces its 2024 Community Book Choice

04/09/24

The 2024 Summit Reads Community Project returns for a ninth year with spare parts.jpg events and a book discussion focused on the book, Spare parts: four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and the battle for the American dream , by Joshua Davis.

“Summit Reads continues its focus on topics that affect Summit County residents in choosing our 2024 community book,” said Friends of Summit County Libraries Treasurer, Joyce Dierauer.“ This year we chose immigration status and Spare Parts as the 2024 book,” Dierauer added. “We are extremely pleased that Lorenzo was willing to travel to Summit County to share his personal story,” she said.

The series will kick off with guest speaker Lorenzo Santillan who was on a team of undocumented students at Carl Hayden Community High School in Phoenix, Arizona, which in 2004 won an underwater robotics contest by defeating competitors from outstanding universities around the country including the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Special Events

We invite the whole community to join us at the Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge on Tuesday, April 23 at 6pm for a meet and greet and book signing.

Then at 7pm, there will be a talk by Lorenzo Santillan in the Eileen and Paul Finkel auditorium.

107 Denison Placer Road, Breckenridge, CO

Other events planned for the community book choice include:

April 30 at 6:30 pm Book Discussion, North Branch Library, Silverthorne
May 10 at 7pm Spare Parts Movie Screening, Colorado Mountain College, Breckenridge

Where to get a copy of the book:

Copies of this year's book are available for purchase at any of the 3 Summit County Libraries (Cash, Check - Made our to Friends of Summit County Libraries, Credit Card or Venmo)
Next Page Books in Frisco.
If you have a Summit County Library card you can order a copy of the book through the library catalog here.
eBooks and eAudiobooks are also available through Libby by Overdrive.
There is a Young Reader's Edition available for ages10-14 available here.

Thank You to Our Sponsors

Summit Reads is sponsored by the Friends of the Summit County Libraries, Next Page Books and Nosh, The Summit Daily News, The Pad Silverthorne, Summit County Rotary and the Colorado Mountain College Breckenridge.