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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. 


Facebook / Instagram / YA Instagram / Children’s Instagram


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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Book Reviews
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puppy pool party
by seth casteel
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Awesome book with wonderful photographs. Puppies are cute on their own. Put puppies in water and it's just perfect!! Loved the way Savannah laughed when we read it and loved the pages at the end where it showed the puppies, their ages and their names.

Early Morning Riser
by Katherine Heiny
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This is the story of Jane, through two decades, after she falls in love with a man with a big history in a small town. It was a light read - nothing spectacular - but reminded the reader that people are complicated, and life doesn’t always turns out in ways you anticipate.

Haven Of Swans
by Colleen Coble
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Fourth Book in the Rock Harbor Series. She doesn't remember who she is and why she is on the side of the road. She knows she needs to get rid of the car and protect her and her daughter. Bree comes along and picks her up and helps her. For the next several months she tries to remember who she is and her former life. Will she ever regain her memory? It's Rock Harbor!

Such A Quiet Place
by Megan Miranda
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Honestly, I just found this really boring? There was nothing novel about the storyline or the characters, and I didn't care about what happened at all. Set in a small neighborhood were everyone knows each other, the story takes place 14 months after Ruby Fletcher, a girl who rented a room in one of the houses, was convicted of killing two neighbors. With her conviction overturned, Ruby reappears in town determined to get revenge on everyone who turned against her. Everyone in town, in turn, is determined to completely ignore her until she leaves. Maybe it was because the victims were dead before the novel started, and were clearly disliked by everyone in the community anyway? There was no real reason to feel anything - and that goes for all of the characters. The narrator is really unreliable and wishy-washy, and her building the case of what happened at the end was illogical and would never hold up any weight in court. The rest of the neighborhood also seems like it's filled with jerks. It was just a very lackluster read, unfortunately.

The Lying Life Of Adults
by Elena Ferrante
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Elena Ferrante continues with themes of background, growth, and discovery. The story takes place again in Naples and explores the two worlds of the higher and lower classes. The protagonist, Giovanna, is torn between where she fits in and what is the truth.

Flipped for Murder
by Maddie Day
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Robbie Jordan moves to a tiny town after visiting her aunt. She opens a country store called Pans n Pancakes. She then is suspected of murder. The town is where her mother is from and begins to learn a few things about her mom and the dad she never met. That is just a small part of the story. It's a cozy mystery!

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.

The Miniaturist
by Jessie Burton
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This is a kind of mystical story set in Amsterdam. It is number one so I assume that we are going to meet the Miniaturist in future books. The story revolves around Petronella who is from the countryside and marries a rich Dutch merchant and moves into his home in Amsterdam. As a wedding gift he gives her a model of their home and she contacts the Miniaturist whom she never actually meets, to make items to go into it. What follows is an intriguing tale of the whole family and their relationships which somehow the Miniaturist seems to mysteriously know much more about than anyone else. It is rather a sad story and has quite a twist at the end.

All The Ugly And Wonderful Things
by Bryn Greenwood
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This work of fiction is both disturbing and uplifting at the same time. It follows the story of a child whose father was a meth dealer and whose mother was an addict and the family she made for herself outside of the traditional definitions of family.

The Goblet Of Fire
by J.K. Rowling
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One of the best books I have ever read! :)
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