The Many Rewards Of Reading

Time For The FADL Summer Reading Program

The Fremont Area District Library begins their summer reading program on Friday, June 2nd. All ages are welcome to come in and sign up on or after June 2nd to begin earning prizes for your reading. Children can earn a free pizza, free ice cream, a toy, a free book, honey sticks, Whitecaps and Griffins passes, and entry into the grand prize drawings for an RC car, birthday party at NorthPointe Gymnastics, a trip to Great Lakes Crossings, Detroit Tigers tickets, and more! Teens can earn free pizza from Spanky’s, ice cream from Koffee Kuppe, a free book, and for every book they read, they can enter for chances to win many prizes from local restaurants and stores. Plus finishers will be entered into the grand prize drawing for a $100 Meijer gift card! Adults can earn a free ice cream or drink from Koffee Kuppe, a coupon for seeds or 4-cell veggie or flower from Mellema Nursery, a free book from the Friends Gift Shop, and for every book they read, they can enter for chances to win many prizes from local restaurants and stores. Grand prize drawings are a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card and a $100 Meijer gift card!

The Summer Reading Program is important in helping to prevent the “summer slide,” which is the tendency for students to lose some of the achievement gains they made in school the previous year. So grab some books, have fun reading, and come to our “Growing Together Now” (FREE) events this summer!

Children’s June Events
Our Summer Reading Kickoff party takes place in the Children’s Department on Friday, June 2nd from 1:00-3:00 p.m. Sign up for Summer Reading, make summer crafts, play games, and get a temporary tattoo! Storytimes for babies & toddlers (up to age 3) will be on Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m., starting June 7th. Family Storytime (up to age 5) will be on Thursdays at 10:00 a.m., starting on June 8th. Saturday Storytime will be on June 10th at 11:00 a.m. We’ll also show an afternoon movie (title coming soon) on June 15th at 2:00 p.m.

Our very popular Discovery Tuesday programs will take place in the Community Room on Tuesday mornings at 10:00 a.m. and last 45 minutes to 1 hour. On June 6th, a presentation called Be Kind to Our Planet (with live animals) will kick off our Discovery Tuesday programs. Mr. Jim will bring us Stacking Our World Together (Cup Stacking) on June 13th. From June 20th-23rd, we’ll have a Scholastic Book Fair in the library’s Community Room. Hours are: Tue, Wed, Fri 10:00-12:00 & 1:00-5:00; Thur 10:00-12:00 & 1:00-7:00. Dance for Kindness will bring us a modern dance/flow arts program on June 27th.

All Ages June Events
The Teen Summer Reading Kickoff Party will be on Friday, June 2nd, at 1:00 p.m. We’ll watch the movie 5000 Blankets, sign up for summer reading, and eat snacks. Paint a Succulent Planter (Registration Required) will be in the Community Room on Thursday, June 8th at 6:30 p.m. Doodling Nature with Victor Du Bois (ages 10 & up) will be on Saturday, June 17th at 10:00 a.m. Please RSVP for Victor’s class by emailing [email protected], but walk-ins are also welcome. Try your hand at pickleball on Thursday, June 22nd at 6:30 p.m. when we host a Family Pickleball Clinic at the courts outside the Rec Center. Paint Your Own Bookends (Registration Required) will take place on Thursday, June 29th at 6:30 p.m. For those that require registration, call the library at 231-928-0256.

The Wednesday Readers book group will meet on Monday, June 12th at 7:00 p.m. to discuss Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. The Non-Fiction Book Discussion will meet on Monday, June 19th to discuss Feather Brained by Bot Tarte. The Daytime Book Group and Young Adult Book Club breaks for the summer. New members are welcome to our book groups!

Junk Journaling will be on Wednesday, June 14th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. This is a scrapbooking and journal hybrid. Use up what you have and supplement with found, recycled, repurposed and thrifted items. For ages 10 and up. All materials provided. 

Adult Events
The adult Summer Reading Program will run from June 2nd to July 27th. Adults can attend an event listed on their reading log and count it as one book read. We’ll have Ron Rademacher here to present Nature Getaways for Live @ the Library. This will be in the Community Room on Tuesday, June 13th at 7:00 p.m. We’ll also have a Movie Monday on June 12th at 2:00 p.m. to show 80 for Brady (PG-13; 98 min). Snacks provided! 

This year’s Summer Reading Program is generously sponsored by: Baars Pharmacy, Blondie Blossom Boutique, Bruce's Glass Shop, Blades Hair Design and Boutique, CBD Store of Michigan, Dave's Auto Clinic, Elsie's Ice Cream, Excellence in Vision, Firestorm Gaming, Friends of the Fremont Area District Library, Geers Family Chiropractic, Gerber Federal Credit Union, Gerber, Nestlé, Koffee Kuppe, Lakeside Swirl, Meijer, Mellema Nursery, Moon Dance Café, Nieboer Electric, NCCA-Artsplace, Northern Rustic Designs, NorthPointe Gymnastics, Paulsen Heating & Cooling, Pizza Hut, Reeman Farm Equipment, SHB Gifts & Décor, Spanky's Pizza, The Original Print Shop, White & Associates, Tire Wholesalers Plus, Walmart, and Discovery Toys Pat Durham. For more information about library programs, visit http://www.fremontlibrary.net, or call 231-924-3480.

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