Congratulations, first grader Jacob A.!! You're the Summer Reader of week 6!!!

It's been a while since we shared some Summer Reading stats with you -- check out these awesome numbers:

Book Buddies (birth - 3 years old)
43 participants are signed up online, with a bunch more using paper logs! The online participants have logged over 600 songs, rhymes, finger plays, and books.  Incredible!

Preschool (3 - 5 years old)
128 awesome preschoolers are signed up for our program, and have logged 161 reviews online! Great work!

Reading Level: Grades 7+

Congratulations are in order for second grader Brooke S., our Summer Reader of this week.  She's read and reported on a slough of books so far this year.  Hooray for Brooke!

Reading Level: Ages 3-8

Harvey’s mom tries to tell him about Doodleday, but he doesn’t listen. Soon, his drawings are coming to life, and mom’s nowhere to be found! Harvey draws more and more, trying to get rid of everything… but as you can imagine, things get out of hand pretty quickly.

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This week's Summer Reader of the Week is Jaclyn C., an entering third grader.  Congratulations, Jaclyn!

As always, Flip Fridays is tomorrow from 2-5pm - come in and record a quick video about a book you've read!

This Monday, the library will be closed due to the Fourth of July holiday - but we're open our normal hours on Saturday and Sunday! 

Reading Level: K-5

The second book in the wonderfully adventrous Dolittle series starts off by introducing us to Tommy Stubbins, future naturalist. To sate his curiosity about animals and their nature, Tommy asks Dr. Dolittle to apprentice him and teach him all he knows about animals and their languages - and so Dolittle, Stubbins and a few old friends set sail, hoping to learn the language of the Shellfish.

Reading Level: Ages 4 - 6

Have you ever seen a slug in your backyard or garden?  If so, you may have wondered -- "how on earth would I go about teaching this slug to read, if it asked me?  I don't know the first thing about teaching a slug to read!"  Well, never fear -- this wonderful, instructional book will tell you everything you need to know about teaching slugs the wonderful art of reading.  You might even learn some good tips for yourself! 

A hilarious collection of stories from some of your favorite authors - don't miss out on this one.  My personal favorite is the story by Kate DiCamillo and Jon Scieszka - a series of letters between a favorite author, and a kid looking to get his homework done quickly and easily.

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Avery G., a second grader, has won the second Summer Reader of the Week Drawing. For more information on the Summer Reader of the Week drawings, look a few entries back!

Summer Reading has had a great start so far, nearly two weeks in. Here are some of our awesome statistics:

27 babies have registered online and shared 313 songs, rhymes, finger plays and books!  There are many more who are participating using a paper log.

Reading Level: Grades 3 - 6

Jack and his mother go camping in Maine over Labor Day weekend, but when Jack wakes up on their first morning, his mother is gone, along with her tent and the car. Jack's mother has done this before, so he's worried... but knows she'll come back eventually. But the end of the weekend looms closer, and Jack's food money has long since run out.  

Jack knows that if he tells anyone his mother has disappeared again, he'll be taken away from her, so he starts heading home, alone.