Beyond the Wakefields

It’s summer reading time at my library which means I have tons of things to say on this blog but get home from work so drained that doing anything more intensive than Sudoku is a challenge.

My library is one of the many libraries with a very time intensive summer reading program for both children and young adults.  This is my second summer with the program.  The previous young adult librarian had started a fabulous summer reading program which attracted tons of teens to events 3-4 times a week.  It helped to come into a successful program and I tried to maintain her basic outline and add new events to the mix.  We ask that the participants read five hours per week, but we have a very wide range of what we consider reading (novels, non-fiction, comics, internet websites, magazines, newspapers, cereal boxes).

Over the next few weeks, I’ll post about the different events I do and the pluses and minuses of each one.

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