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Find us on the lower level, just
inside Entrance I to your left!
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Library Hours:
Sundays - 8:30 – 11:00am &
Wednesdays - 5:45 – 7:15pm
We’re preparing our hearts & minds to love on Grand Rapids during CityFest. This campaign
will include several events taking place from now through September. The Calvary Library
is delighted to facilitate preparation for CityFest with books available for the entire family to
enjoy. We are excited to have this movement of unity as we seek peace & prosperity for our city
(Jeremiah 29:7).
Evicted – Matthew Desmond (Adult)
This story is about one of the most basic
human needs – roof overhead – and yet
Matthew Desmond has told it in sweep-
ing immersive, heartbreaking fashion.
We enter the lives of both renters and
landlords at shoulder height, experienc-
ing their triumphs, struggles, cruelty,
kindness, loss, and love. One hopes that
Evicted will change public policy. It will
certainly change how people respond to the world and those
who inhabit it. – Jeff Hobbs, Author
The Gift – Victor Castelo (All Ages)
This is a very short story I wrote a few years ago. I hope that
the quality and lessons inside overwrites the actual number
of words. – Victor Castelo
Fly Away Home – Eve Bunting (Child)
This is a sensitive book about a boy and
his dad who live at the airport. Home-
lessness is not a common subject for
any children’s book and a picture book
on this small family is a daring deed...
oversimplification, false cheerfulness or hopelessness... Fly
Away Home is free of all these things.
– Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site
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Changing Places: A Kids View of Shelter
Living – Judy Wallace (Child)
The voices of eight homeless children,
ages 6-13, are captures here with stun-
ning illustrations that give you a poignant
look at shelter life. Changing Places
acquaints children with the issues of
homelessness and poverty. It shows, too,
how similar children are in their wants,
needs, likes and dislikes, no matter what the circumstances.
– Homeless Hub
Lend a Hand: Poems About Giving (Child)
– John Frank
Acrylic and pastel paintings depict chil-
dren, teens, and adults of varying ages,
races and abilities going about their daily
routines: eating lunch in the a cafeteria,
getting a haircut, reading in a library. The
accompanying short poems, however,
depict simple acts of kindness, adding a further dimensions
to the book. – School Library Journal
Luis & Andrew Palau, the evangelists behind CityFest, have
written some amazing books that will also encourage you.
• Changed by Faith – Luis Palau
• Out of the Desert: Into the Life God Fully Intended –
Luis Palau
• The Secret Life of a Fool – Andrew Palau