Library Kicks-Off Summer Reading Challenge; Prizes for All
Ages!
How better
to enjoy a summer day than by kicking back with a great
book? What’s even better? Winning prizes for reading. That’s
right, stop by your neighborhood Library and sign-up for the
Summer Reading Challenge. Kids, Teens, and Adults can win
prizes for reading books - even just for signing-up!
This year’s
theme is Build a Better World and the Library is
offering tons of FREE fun programs, activities, and (yes,
more) prizes for all ages! To find out more, visit
ToledoLibrary.org
And because
the Summer Reading Challenge isn’t just for kids, here are
some great titles hand-picked by our expert Librarians to
get you started.
Great Summer Reads
Jane
Crow: the Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and
a Mother’s Quest: a True Story of the Jim Crow South by
Beth Macy
Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to
Those Who Create It by Charlamagne Tha God
I Can’t
Make This Up: Life Lessons by Keven Hart
The
Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues by Edward Kelsey
Moore
Cold
Flash by Carrie Johnson
Children and Teen Summer
Reads
Jabari
Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
Piecing
Me Together by Renee Watson
Chasing
Space by Melvin Leland (adult and young reader’s
editions)
The Hate
U Give by Angie Thomas
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