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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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Book Reviews
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Sindbad in the Land of Giants
by Ludmila Zeman
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Sindbad in the Land of Giants was a wonderful book that we read together. It was beautifully illustrated. It tells the tale of a very long journey, part horror and part humor. Sindbad gets lost and lands on the Mountain of Monkeys. It was a fun adventure!

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.

Wicked As You Wish
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Excellent!

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.

Cilkas Journey
by Heather Morris
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The sequel to The Tatooist of Auschwitz tells the post-concentration camp story of Cilka who was held as a prisoner of war for her acts of survival while at Auschwitz. She is accused of “sleeping with the enemy,” while in reality she was a 16 year old girl who was raped repeatedly by a senior officer. The story details her post imprisonment following the war by the Russians.

Midnight Sea
by Colleen Coble
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The 4th book in the Aloha Reef Series. Lani is on her aunt's coffee farm, and is shot. She lives but wakes up blind. A good friend Pam has died. Enter into the seen, ex-cop Ben who trains guiding eye dogs. Ben brings Fischer to help Lani adjust to her new blindness. Lani is insists she will get her sight back. In the meantime they have to find out who shot at her and Pam and why. Ben's brother is mixed up in this as well. Secrets from the past come back to haunt Lani's Aunt. Something that happened years and years ago is resurfacing.

Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze
by Rick Riordan
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I love all of the Rick Riordan books but this one slightly less, the reason for that being is that Rick Riordan killed oh of my favorite characters who is also in the Heroes of Olympus books. Also I like that you have some puzzles involved with the books.

The One And Only Ivan
by Katherine Applegate
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I read this book as I had heard it was really sad and that was what I was in the mood for! It actually is not as sad as you would imagine. There are unhappy parts but mostly it is uplifting. It is about some animals who live in a circus attached to a shopping mall as told from their point of view. A nice quick read.

The Murmur Of Bees
by Sofia Segovia
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This is the story of an abandoned, disfigured baby boy, found covered in bees who has the ability to know the future. The bees remain with him and protect him as he helps the family that raised him cope with the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918. There are lots of interesting characters and a very engaging storyline.

The Next Wife
by Kaira Rouda
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3.5 stars. I really enjoyed the second half of this book compared to the first. The writing does feel a bit juvenile at points, but I think it was intentional to really have us understand the characters and what the author was attempting to convey about them. Would be a good beach read.
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