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C.H. BOOTH LIBRARY’S SUMMER READING PROGRAM

June 14--August 20


How it Works

  • Register for an account. You can make accounts for yourself and your family.

  • Log in to your account and record your reading. See your age group below for more information regarding logging and prizes.

  • Visit us at the library for reading recommendations, and see our Event Calendar for more summer fun for the whole family. 


Frequently Asked Questions

  • Who can participate?

The whole family! We have a program for children, young adults, and adults. 


  • Can I count books that I read on my computer or e-reader?

Of course!


  • Can I count audiobooks?

You bet! 


  • Can I join the program before or after its official start date?  

Yes! You can register now and start recording your reading on the official start date (June 14th). Log your reading until August 20 for children, young adults, and adults.


  • What should I read?

Stop by the library to ask us for recommendations, view our book lists online, or follow us on social media, where we will post book recommendations all summer long. 


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KIDS 

Ages 4 to Grade 5

Stop by the children’s department to pick up your summer reading kit. Each kit which includes  tickets for our prize raffle to be held on August 21.  All tickets must be received by August 20 to be eligible.



YOUNG ADULTS

Grades 6 to 12


Log your time spent reading to win points. Each week, participants will have the opportunity to use their reading points for the chance to win gift cards for local businesses and other fun stuff!


The summer’s top readers will have a chance to win a Kindle Fire tablet.


ADULTS


For every book review you submit, you will be entered into the Friday morning gift card raffle as well as the end-of-the-summer raffle of your choice.

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The Good Company
by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
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I enjoyed this although I was slightly disappointed with the ending. I thought it was very well written and liked how each chapter was told from a different character. It does remind you as the reader how much of a story can be embedded in a picture of the past.
News Of The World
by Paulette Jiles
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This isn't my usual type of book but I liked it a lot. Jiles did a great job of creating two unique and interesting characters, Captain Kidd, a tired and grizzled veteran of 71 who travels through Texas reading the news to groups who gather to hear him, and Johanna, a 10 year old white girl who was rescued after being held captive by Indians for four years. In the quest to return Johanna to her relatives, both of them grow and learn and show the reader what real family means.
Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook By Celia Rees
by Celia Rees
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Miss Graham heads to post-war Germany to assist in rebuilding the infrastructure. In addition to this task, she is requested to locate her former lover and Nazi war criminal who is wanted by the Americans and British for different outcomes. The story is dense with history and intense--recommended if one really enjoys a thoroughly researched and intriguing story.
Thea Stilton And The Dancing Shadows
by Geronimo Stilton
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I really liked this book because it had a lot of dancing and mysteries, which are my favorite kinds of books
Lion Vs. Hyena Clan
by Nathan Sommer
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This book is a non-fiction and its about a lion fighting a hyena clan (5 hyenas). It was a battle and it was time to fight and the hyena leader was pushed to the ground by the lion. One hyena tried to sneak up from behind and the lion spotted him and bit him. My favorite part was that the lion won!
The Personal Librarian
by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
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This was just kind of boring? It's the story of real-life Belle da Costa Greene, who was hired by J. P. Morgan to be his personal librarian. She is in charge of finding and purchasing all of the rare books he wants for his collection, and in exchange he pays her a salary that is sufficient enough to keep her family comfortable. There's a lot of room for things to be stressful here - first, Belle is a woman, and it's not common for a woman to be hired for this position during the time period. She also deals with the stress of being the main income provider for her family, as her father left when she was a child. And, of course, Belle has to content with the fact that while on any official document she has been checking the "white," box, with enough digging, anyone would be able to find out she was lying - Belle's father is black. This is very much historical fiction, and is not at all a biography about Belle - however, with that in mind, I expected more to happen? It seems like a book where the character is constantly stressed, but nothing ever really seems to happen. There's no real tension or drama here to make the book compelling.
The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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"When you write the ending, Monique, tell everyone that it is the people I miss. Tell everyone that I got it wrong. That I chose the wrong things most of the time." There's nothing more to say about this book other than the fact that it is amazing. An absolute masterpiece that deserves to be read by everyone. Monique's connection was kind of dumb and seemed shoehorned in, but I can ignore that because of how remarkable the rest of the book was. Read it. You won't regret it.
A Crooked Tree
by Una Mannion
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Told from the perspective of fifteen-year-old Libby during the 1980s, the story starts one night when Libby's younger sister, Ellen, annoys their mom so bad that she kicks Ellen out of the car and tells her to walk home. Ellen decides to hitchhike her way back, only to get into the car of a strange man who doesn't seem willing to let her out, resulting in her having to jump. I was expecting this to be more of a thriller or mystery, following what happened after the car ride and them finding the guy who did it. That's not really the story, though. This is less a mystery/thriller and more a coming of age story about a family who just happened to have a girl who was molested in a car. I found Libby to be really boring as a narrator, and the timeline itself was very confusing - you'd be reading something present tense and all of a sudden, within the same paragraph, they suddenly jump to an event that happened years ago. The premise was interesting, but I found the writing style to be disjointed and the summary didn't really match what the book was.
The Personal Librarian
by Marie Benedict
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This historical fiction sheds a light on the lengths that folks will go to make a life for themselves in spite of society. At the turn of the 20th century, Belle da Costa Greene was able to hide her African American heritage by “passing for white” and went on to work for JP Morgan to curate the art and manuscript collection for the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Trials Of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy
by Rick Riordan
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Trials Of Apollo Book 2 was awesome. It had some of the same characters from the Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series, which was great. Also I love that the chapter titles are haiku poems because Apollo is the god of poetry, and in the Percy Jackson books everyone hated his haikus.
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