Summer Reading Program

This year’s summer reading challenge starts on Saturday, June 21st. Pick up your reading log, summer reading t-shirt, and coupon for a slice of pizza starting at 10 am! Reading logs will be available all summer, but t-shirts and pizza coupons are while supplies last.

For this year’s summer reading challenge

• Read or listen to a book for your usual amount of time.
• Color in a circle on the flowers on the reading log for each reading session. After five reading sessions, return to the library and collect your prize – a free book!
• Keep reading! You will earn a prize ticket for each reading session 6-10. Use your tickets to enter to win a variety of prizes, gift cards to LEGO. Prize entries can be completed at the Children’s Desk.
• Don’t want to stop after completing your first reading log? Ask us for another log to keep reading. You’ll receive two tickets for every additional log you complete. Winners will be notified by the end of August . Please make sure your email and phone number is correct on all ticket entries.

Howe Library is hosting a teen-specific Summer Reading Challenge for ages 12-19 and exciting summer programming!

Choose three summer reading-themed activities to complete from our challenge.
You will be entered into a raffle for a $100 gift card of your choice from Michael’s or Bean’s Art Store.

Return completed maps to the Information Desk by August 17th. Raffle winner will be chosen on August 18th.

Join us this summer for a collaboration between the Howe Library and the Hood Museum! Come visit the Little Hood @ the Howe, in the New Books area, and find adult art kits supplied by the Hood. Take these kits home or do them at the library, and check back every week or so for new kits!

Learn more about this collaboration

This summer, we’ll be reading Otherlands by Thomas Halliday.

“The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life on the page.

This book is an exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that have occurred during its history, and the ways that life has found to adapt―or not.

Pick up a free copy of Otherlands, by Thomas Halliday, at the Information Desk starting June 15.

Join your community in reading this summer reading-themed book, and for these programs:

Excavations and Exhibitions: Digging into Archeology and the Art Museum – Wednesday, July 29 at 6:30 p.m. (Hybrid)
with Ashley Offill, Curator of Collections, Hood Museum of Art
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Summer Community Reads Book Discussion: Otherlands – Tuesday, August 4 at 6:00 p.m. (Hybrid)
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Searching for the Oldest Animal Fossils – Wednesday, August 5 at 6:30 p.m. (Hybrid)
with Justin Strauss, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College
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