Summer Reading 2025

Summer Reading: Color Our World!

June 1st – Aug. 14th

It’s Summer Reading time! Sign up anytime, open to all ages. All books read contribute to the Governor’s Reading Challenge. This year’s theme is Art – featuring plenty of craft projects and art-themed events! Drop in to see how reading can color your world!

Children’s Programs for June

Drop-in Weekly Children’s Programs (Morning Programs start at 10am)

Music in Motion for Toddlers –Wednesdays, ages 2-5 Move & sing with us!

Story Time & Craft Thursdays, ages 2-6  A little bit of story, science, craft and play.

Check our all of our children’s programs on our main page happenings!

 

2025 Readers Dozen Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge!

Our annual year-long reading challenge is here again! Each month, read a book with one of the corresponding monthly key words in the title. Enter your name each month to win a prize, and if you complete all 12 months, you may just take home the grand prize!

Monthly Key Word

Jan – Storm, Time, Know, Return, Break, Hour, Twist, Silence

Feb – Art, Golden, Dream, First, Club, Went, Stay, Live

Mar – Deep, Clever, Sand, Little, Happy, Date, Guest, Over

Apr – Rest, Days, Upstairs, Sing, Shell, Starlight, Life, Couple

May – Lost, City, Wind, Hide, Lie, Fan, Room, Clear

June – Great, Wander, Child, Mine, Book, Watch, Heart, Save

July – Sunrise, Deepen, Story, Sweet, Resort, Good, Left, Ever

Aug – Side, World, Sound, Trial, Word, Hotel, Now, Say

Sept – Borrow, Survive, Listen, Where, Sleeping, Crash, Please, Count

Oct – Bury, Ghost, Chain, Glass, Moon, Last, One, Street

Nov – Tale, Final, Feast, Bloom, Cliff, Wide, Memory, Always

Dec – Fable, Flirt, Truly, Shop, Winter, Yours, Warm, Love

*Audio books count! *Extra Credit! Borrow a book through a JCCL online resource (Hoopla or Palace Project) and have your name entered in that month’s drawing twice!

Page Turners Book Club: Summer Dates and Book Picks

Page Turners Fiction Book Club

Fiction Book Club – Meets the 2nd Thursday of the Month @ 6:00PM

Thursday, June 12th @ 6:00PM

Join us for a discussion about The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise by Colleen Oakley. Stay for a Friends of the Library meeting after at 7:00PM!

Thursday, July 10th @ 6:00PM

Join us for a discussion about Our Italian Summer by Jennifer Probst. Stay for a Friends of the Library meeting after at 7:00PM!

Thursday, August 14th @ 6:00PM

Join us for a discussion about Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto. Stay for a Friends of the Library meeting after at 7:00PM!

Breakfast Book Club – Summer Dates and Book Picks

 

Breakfast Book Club

Nonfiction Book Club – Last Wednesday of the Month @ 9:30AM
books and breakfast logo showing bacon, eggs and toast

Wednesday, June 25th @ 9:30AM

We will be discussing Salt Marsh Diary by Mark Seth Lender

Wednesday, July 30th @ 9:30AM

We will be discussing Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Wednesday, August 27th @ 9:30AM

We will be discussing Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage by Jeff Benedict