Make a Splash at Your Library
Summer reading is a great way to help preschoolers learn early literacy skills, school age children and teens avoid the "summer slide" and for adults to model the joy of reading to their children. This site contains all of the information you need to be part of the summer reading program.
** Preschool Program: Ages birth to six & their parents or caregiver
** School Age Program: Ages 7 to 11
** Teen Program: Ages 12 to 17
The Summer Reading Club Finale is Saturday August 14. Registration is required and will only be for those that participate in the summer reading program.
Get Hooked On Books- -Summer Reading Van Schedule
Meet our Get Hooked On Books, Summer Reading Assistants:
David:
David Palazzo is a senior at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Library Science. He has lived in Montgomery for 22 years and likes to kayak, play soccer, and wrestle with his dogs. Dave has been working at the James V. Brown Library for the past 3 summers in the Youth Services Department and hopes to pursue his career as a children’s librarian.
Brittany:
Brittany Zelewicz has been working at the library on and off since her first year of college. This is her third summer working with the summer reading program. Brittany went to Lycoming College for Music Education, and is currently entering her third year as a teacher. In her spare time, she enjoys reading (of course!), swimming, and traveling.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
To the over 100 following individuals and businesses who have shown their generosity in supporting this year's Summer Reading Program. Their gift is making a huge difference in the lives of hundreds of Lycoming County children right now.
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Please thank the Friends of the JV Brown Library members whose very generous gifts help make this program possible. More information
The Friends of the James V. Brown Library. Your annual contribution of $20 or more makes you a Friend of the Library. More importantly, it helps support and sustain one of Lycoming County’s cultural treasures—the James V. Brown Library. Please join today.
Great places to find books to read:
New Youth Books - from the Library Online Catalog
Beat the Summer Slide and build an eight book bridge
Read the Books (See the Early Readers section)
A great site for everyone to find a book for summer reading or fun. Innovative and entertaining, Readthebooks.com uses animation to help kids connect with books. Kids and parents can find books in dozens of categories, read reviews, rate books. All of the books owned locally link to the catalog so its easy to find each book in the library.
Summer Reading video
Make a Splash at Your Library
A Special Message about the Summer Reading Program
Last summer, more than 267,000 Pennsylvania school-age children participated statewide in library-sponsored summer reading programs. Studies show that summer reading helps to improve comprehension, vocabulary, and proficiency enabling students to return to school in the fall with greater retained skills and more ready to continue academic progress.
Libraries provide FREE access to a variety of books for every level of reading ability. And unlike bookstores and other commercially sponsored reading programs designed primarily to sell books, library-sponsored summer reading clubs incorporate standards supported by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
Beat the Summer Slide,
Build an Eight Book Bridge
Losing reading skills over the summer is called the "summer slide". Reading as few as eight books creates a bridge between June and September. The James V. Brown Library and every other library in the Lycoming Library System make it easy and fun for your child to build an eight-book bridge. Your library offers well-planned, fun summer reading programs for our community's youngsters at no additional cost to parents. Read about the eight book bridge here!