Kids in the Kitchen: Apple Tarts - Ages 6-12
2025-10-16 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Program Room, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Join us for a fall cooking event! Kids will make an apple tart on puff pastry to bake at home. This program will include a demonstration (and tasting) of homemade caramel sauce.

Younger children will require adult assistance. This program uses wheat flour and dairy.

Studio: Tesla - STEM fun for Middle Schoolers
2025-10-17 15:30 - 16:30 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Program Room, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Studio: Tesla is a STEM education club run by WashU students for kids in middle school.

They meet on Fridays from 3:30-4:30 PM – October 10, 17, 24 & 31.

Drop in to the program room for educational fun!

Teen Activity Kits
2025-10-20 00:00 - 2025-10-27 23:59 | MO
Teen Activity Kits are take-home kits with a different craft or activity each month! In October, you’ll get a deck of playing cards and learn how to play different varieties of Solitaire, as well as games to play with friends. Kits always include a snack and a list of recommended new books at the library.

Register by October 15th to pick up kits the week of the 20th.

Teen Activity kits are for ages 12 – 18.

Teen Tuesdays: Get Creative!
2025-10-21 18:30 - 19:30 | MO
Craft a needle-felted Spider just in time for Halloween!

For teens ages 12 – 18

Adventure Lab: Ping Pong Obstacle Course
2025-10-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Program Room, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Use your imagination, cardboard, duct tape and more to create an obstacle course for ping pong balls!Ages 6-12. Please register.

Virtual Authors Live! presents Malala Yousafzai
2025-10-22 18:00 | Virtual Authors Live website
You are invited to be one of the first to hear from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai about her astonishing memoir, Finding My Way. Malala reintroduces herself to the world, sharing how she navigated life as someone whose darkest moments threatened to define her narrative — while seeking the freedom to find out who she truly is.

Puzzle Race
2025-10-25 10:30 - 12:00 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Program Room, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Gather a team of up to four puzzlers to show your skills at solving a 500-piece jigsaw the fastest. Puzzle fuel (coffee and donuts) provided!

Storytime at the Library!
2025-10-27 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-11-10 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-11-24 10:00 - 10:30 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Children’s Library, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Young children & their caregivers are invited to join us in the Children’s Library for Stories, Songs, and Playtime!

Every week at 10am.

Virtual Authors Live! presents Philippa Gregory
2025-10-29 13:00 | Virtual Authors Live website
Coined as the “queen of British historical fiction,” Philippa Gregory returns to the infamous Tudor court with a tale that is both timely and timeless. We invite you to sit down with Virtual Authors Live for an intriguing conversation with Gregory about her newest novel Boleyn Traitor (out October 14, 2025).

Storytime at the Library!
2025-11-03 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-11-17 10:00 - 10:30 | MO

Lego Free Play - Ages 6-18
2025-11-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Program Room, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Enjoy an hour of free play with our Lego blocks. We have basic blocks, cool minifigs, and technic pieces.

Bring your friends and compare what you’ve each built or make new friends and build something together.

Drop in!

Virtual Authors Live! presents Joseph Lee
2025-11-05 13:00 | Virtual Authors Live website
You’re invited to learn from journalist and author Joseph Lee as he talks about his stirring memoir, Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity. In it, he explores Indigenous identity in proximity to land that serves as an iconic vacationing spot for the wealthy – the “island paradise” Martha’s Vineyard.

Open Art Studio for Adults - Explore Paint!
2025-11-05 18:30 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Program Room, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Spend the evening exploring with paint! Acrylic, watercolor and more. No registration is required.

Native American Storytelling - All Ages
2025-11-08 10:00 - 11:00 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Program Room, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Join us for a special event of Native American Storytelling with Suzanne Jones.

Her traditional stories are told primarily by Choctaw, Cherokee, and Delaware Nations/tribes, all of which Jones is either a tribal member or descended from. These stories are often told to educate children or entertain people at gatherings.

PAWS for Reading
2025-11-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Children’s Library, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Come read stories to Milo, a specially trained and certified ADI (Assistance Dogs International) dog.

Library CLOSED for Veterans Day
2025-11-11 09:00 - 20:00 | MO

Adventure Lab: Lotion Bars and Sugar Scrub
2025-11-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Program Room, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Make lotion bars and sugar scrub!

Adult Book Group: Washington Black
2025-11-12 19:00 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Program Room, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Join the Richmond Heights Memorial Library Adult Book Discussion group to discuss November’s selection, Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan. We will meet on November 12 at 7:00pm.

Virtual Authors Live! presents Amanda Peters
2025-11-13 18:00 | Virtual Authors Live website
Join in on a conversation with acclaimed writer Amanda Peters as we discuss her instant bestselling novel, The Berry Pickers, as well as her tender short fiction collection, Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories. Influenced by Peters’ own Mi’kmaq heritage, The Berry Pickers is a riveting exploration of family, grief, and the bonds we share.

At Home Family Book Club - The Wrong Way Home
2025-11-15 08:00 - 17:00 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Children’s Library, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
The Wrong Way Home is a realistic fiction book about a 12-year-old girl who escapes a seemilgly idyllic off-the-grid community, only to plan her way home while slowly discovering the dangerous truth about her past.

The At-Home Family Book Club Kit includes a copy of the book to check out, discussion questions, and snacks.

Kits are available first come, first served in the Children’s Library. Or register by November 15th to reserve your copy!

Books will be checked out to your library card when you pick up the kit.

Teen Activity Kit: Kindness Rocks!
2025-11-17 00:00 - 2025-11-24 23:59 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Children’s Library, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Teen Activity Kits are take-home kits that feature a different craft or activity each month!

In November, we’ll explore Random Acts of Kindness and paint inspirational rocks with messages of kindness to leave for a stranger.

Register by Wednesday, November 12 to pick up your kit November 17-24.

For ages 12-18.

Virtual Authors Live! presents Charles Duhigg
2025-11-18 13:00 | Virtual Authors Live website
Get yourself primed for the holiday season and join an online conversation you won’t want to miss! Charles Duhigg, author of the bestselling books The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, presents the ultimate guide on how to communicate and connect with anyone in his latest work, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. In this groundbreaking book, Duhigg unravels the secrets of the supercommunicators to reveal the art – and the science – of successful communication.

Teen Tuesday: Get Creative!
2025-11-18 18:30 - 19:30 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Program Room, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
We’ll have templates and patterns to create your favorite characters, animals, kawaii cuteness, and lots more with fuse beads!!

For Teens ages 12 – 18

Game Play Wednesdays: Dog Man!
2025-11-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Program Room, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States

Kids Create! Fuse Beads
2025-11-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Program Room, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Come make fuse bead creations with your friends!

Dinosaur Saturday Storytime
2025-11-22 10:00 - 10:30 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Children’s Library, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States

Tabletop Role Playing: The Traveler's Inn
2025-11-22 14:00 - 15:30 | Richmond Heights Memorial Library – Program Room, 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO, 63117, United States
Solve the Mystery of the Traveler’s Inn!

We will have a role playing adventure with snacks, creativity and puzzles. Beginners are welcome! Please register.
