Today is the day.
You picked up a challenge envelope and read a book you may never have tried before.
Starting TODAY you can turn in your Summer Reading challenge sheet at either Library’s Information Desk. You’ll take home a book for your personal reading stash AND be entered in the prize drawing for that Amazon gift card. Woo hoo!
P.S. Don’t forget your contact info. No Contact Info = No Entry in Prize Drawing.
Read on, my friends, read on.
The United States is leading the 2010 Winter Olympics medal count with 18 medals…6 of which are gold! woo hoo! Head over to the official Olympics site to see:
We’re only about halfway through the games so to check out the remaining competitions:
You can donate $10.00 to the American Red Cross for Haiti relief by texting “Haiti” to 90999. It’s that simple, but check below to be sure your cell phone provider is participating. Ask your parents permission first if you don’t pay your own cell phone bill. 100% of the donation will go to support the relief efforts in Haiti. You can check out the giving state by state on the American Red Cross blog.
This should be the correct list of cell phone providers participating (according to the Mobile Giving Foundation FAQ):
Emily the Strange that is. You all know her. Some of you may love her; others may hate her. Not that she would care what YOU think. Emily finally stepped out of the graphic novel pages and into her first novel, Emily the Strange: the lost days. She’s lost her memory and wakes up with only her diary to try and figure out who she is, where she is, and everything else about her life!
If you’re looking for some Strange without leaving your keyboard try online games like:
Or head over to the fan participation section for:
And that’s just a taste of Emily online. Don’t forget to check out the Emily the Strange graphic novels at the library for some more Strange in your day.
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