Mountainside Library Summer Reading
The Summer Reading Program: All Together Now is underway at the Mountainside Library. Children, teens, and adults are invited to register and log their reading for weekly prizes, book raffles and a chance to win a Kindle Paperwhite or a Family Game Basket. Registration continues throughout the summer, but the sooner you register, the more reading you can log and earn prizes.
Whether a child, teen, or adult, readers may choose their own books, but the library staff is available to help with suggestions. Students with school assignments may even log their required reading.
Preventing summer slide is another reason to join the summer reading program. It’s well known that students can move backward academically during the summer if reading and learning are not continued and reading achievement declines as well. But if students read just six books over the summer, they can maintain their current reading level, and, if they read between ten and twenty books of their own choosing, they can actually increase reading achievement.
“Summer is a wonderful time for everyone to read for fun,” says Elizabeth Perrin, Children’s Library Associate, “The library is here to provide choices, encouragement, and incentives for everyone.”
In addition to the Summer Reading Program, the Library has a roster of exciting and informative programs for all ages including story times, yoga story times, crafts, and robotics and coding for children and teens. For adults the library has several hands-on experiences including creating a natural summer survival kit, ricotta cheese making, and painting as well as The Great Courses program every Monday afternoon featuring a series about The Gilded Age, movies most Fridays, and an evening concert with Marc Black highlighting music from the 1950s and 60s.
For a complete listing of all of the summer programs at the Mountainside Library, visit mountainsidelibrary.orgfor details including registration and fees or call the library at 908-233-0115 for further information or to register for events.
