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Summer Reading Program 2009: Local Motion

by sherlonya

Summer reading time is here!

This year the theme for AADL’s summer reading program is Local Motion. All summer long we will offer a variety of programs around this theme including nature walks, jump roping, dancing, and rock climbing. Whether you’re hoping to learn more about health topics and being active or would like to participate as an audience member, there is something here for you.

All ages are invited to play the summer reading game (June 12-August 14). You can even register online. The youth game includes incentive stamps and prizes along the way to reading or listening to 10 books. Teens have many choices of activities to complete the game and become eligible for a prize drawing. Adults, yes, there is something for you too.

Join us at for our Summer Reading Kick-off concert at The Ark! Local act, Gemini, will get kids moving to rousing music from around the world. Families will have the opportunity to register for the summer reading program at this concert. We hope to see you there Tuesday, June 16, 6:30-8:30 PM.

The popular Lego Contest, Graffiti Art Contest and Manga Drawing Contest are back this year, and this year's details are available now.

At the end of the day, we hope you have fun this summer, and we want to be a part of that fun! We hope to see you this summer.

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Glue & Go Costumes for Kids: Super-Duper Designs with Everyday Materials

by kidlit

Summer is a good time to get creative. How about getting a head start on your Halloween costume? Especially if that means you'll have the best costume ever!

Join us at the Library on June 24th when Holly Cleeland, author of Glue & Go Costumes for Kids, comes to Ann Arbor to show us how to make fantastic costumes from things you already have around the house. Do you want to be a black widow spider? How would you make a costume that transforms you into a plate of spaghetti? Maybe you'd like to be a cell phone? These are just three of the 28 costumes described in the book. The author will demonstrate how to make three different costumes.

Ms. Cleeland will be at the Downtown Library from 2:00 p.m to 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24th. She'll repeat the program at 7:00 p.m that day at the Pittsfield Branch.

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Summer Reading Kick-Off!

by StoryLaura

What a treat to celebrate summer reading with two of the most talented and well-read performers that A2 is proud to call our own! When San and Laz, the Gemini Brothers, are not browsing our library shelves, they are treating audiences all over the country to their delicious blend of traditional and original songs. Imagine a free Gemini concert at the awesome Ark on Tuesday, June 16 at 7:00 pm and you can sign up for the Summer Reading Program to boot!

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Taste of Ann Arbor and Delicious Summer Reading

by StoryLaura

Want to be the very first person to sign up for the Local Motion Summer Reading Program? Visit us at the Taste of Ann Arbor and get an early start on reading. We will have jump ropes, hoola hoops, sidewalk chalk and other old fashioned summer fun to kick-off Local Motion. If you have never experienced Taste, it is one of the great “welcome summer” Ann Arbor days and AADL is proud to be part of it. The next Local Motion event is right around the corner!

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Teen Volunteers Needed at AADL

by K.C.

AADL needs teen volunteers to help sign up summer reading participants June 12-26. Interested? You need to:

-be in grades 6-12 in the fall,
-attend training Friday, June 12, 2:00-3:00 p.m.,
-work both weeks (June 12-June 26).

Stop by the branch (West, Malletts Creek, Pittsfield, or Traverwood) at which you are interested in helping. Go to the reference desk, sign up, and take forms to complete. Return completed forms by Friday, June 5.

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Wonderful book for late summer

by annevm

Rascal by Sterling North was a Newbery Honor book in 1964, the year my mom started encouraging me to read it. “Such a wonderful story,“ she would say, as I headed for the pool without the book. It sounded boring - at the end of World War I, a boy turns a raccoon into a pet. I was a girl, and I read other things. Over the years, Rascal became a family joke: “Have you read it yet? Still too busy?“ Finally, I read it this summer, and my now-long-gone mom was right: Rascal is a wonderful story, warmly written and evocative of a wilder Wisconsin than I ever imagined.

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5th grade reading UNDER CONSTRUCTION

by ryanikoglu

Are you going into 5th grade this fall?
SCARY! Try Double-Dare To Be Scared: Another Thirteen Chilling Tales.
ROYALS! Try Marie Antoinette or Jahanara: Princess of Princesses in the Royal Diaries series, by American Girl Publishers.
ADVENTURE! Try National Parks Mysteries with Deadly Waters set in Everglades, or Valley Of Death set in Death Valley.

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4th Grade Reading UNDER CONSTRUCTION

by ryanikoglu

If you are going into 4th or 5th grades this fall, You may enjoy some of the following books:
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From A Medieval Village won the 2008 Newbery Award!
Nic Bishop Spiders with fabulous photography, incredible factoids!
Hachiko Waits based on a true story of dog loyalty.
A Crooked Kind Of Perfect a story of how dreams of perfection evolve into reality.
No Talking or Report Card by Andrew Clements.

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Kid Bits - True or False?

by ryanikoglu

If you are somewhere between 3rd Grade and 8th Grade, and like to tweek your truth-o-meter, try the "Classified" series. They are fun because they are unproven news stories that have raised questions of hoax.
My favorite is Vanished!, a WWII aircraft carrier that "vanished in port" ... the sailors reappeared elsewhere! You get to read the story, and then read facts from both Witnesses and Doubters.
Other titles are Breakout, Alien Landing, or
Nuclear Winter Man about the disappearance of renowned nuclear Russian scientist Vladimir Alexandrov.

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Kid Bits - Find Something You Can Do

by ryanikoglu

BORED?
You CAN FIX it!!!
Explore the Arts & Crafts books and start some projects.
On the NEW book shelf we have
Usborne Little Book Of Vacation Activities;
D.I.Y. Kids: Design Your Own; and
Ralph Masiello's Dragon Drawing Book.