At Roundtable Reading, young readers read aloud to one another from the opening pages of a good book. Children who participate will receive a copy of the book to continue reading at home. No advance sign-up needed; just show up promptly at 2:30 ready to read!

Kate and her younger brother Tom are bored with their lives, and if their dull and uninteresting parents are anything to go by, they don’t have much to look forward to. Why can’t Kate have thrilling adventures and save the world like people do in books? Even her eleventh birthday is shaping up to be mundane—that is, until her highly irresponsible Uncle Herbert surprises her with the most unexpected, exhilarating, and inappropriate birthday present of all time: a colossal steam locomotive called the Silver Arrow.