LEWISTON – A community reading project will host a panel discussion titled “Struggling to Get By in Lewiston-Auburn” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, at Lewiston-Auburn College.

The discussion will derive from this year’s One Book/One Community, L-A Reads! selection, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” by Barbara Ehrenreich. The book is a 2001 nonfiction bestseller and Notable Book of the Year, which provides insight into the often invisible work force of the service economy.

The panelists will discuss many of the challenges that individuals and families in L-A face as they try to get by working at low-wage jobs.

The panel will include Linda M. Hertell, president of Richardson Hollow Mental Health; Mary Kozicki LaFontaine, manager of the Lewiston CareerCenter; Barbara Rankins, neighborhood coordinator for Empower Lewiston; Nancy Reynolds, team leader of Advocates for Children; and Mark Schlotterbeck, city missionary for Calvary United Methodist Church. Rex Rhoades, executive editor of the Sun Journal, will be the moderator.

“Nickel and Dimed” is available for loan at the Lewiston and Auburn public libraries and may be reserved by calling either library. Copies are available for purchase at a 20 percent discount at the Book Burrow, Mr. Paperback and WaldenBooks.

One Book/One Community is a partnership of the Lewiston and Auburn libraries, and Lewiston Adult Education, Auburn Adult Education, the Sun Journal, Book Burrow & Caf, Mr. Paperback, WaldenBooks, the University of Southern Maine/Lewiston-Auburn, and WCNN AM1240 Gleason Radio.