News from the Library & Summer Reading Suggestionse
by Margaret Woodruff, Library Director,
June 30, 2011, page 10.....

Summer Reading Has Kicked Off

The Charlotte Library Summer Reading Program, “One World, Many Stories,” kicked off June 21. Families enjoyed a storytelling session with David Sewell-McCann and a special guest appearance by Fern, the 9-day-old goat kid belonging to Jan Cannon and Lee McIsaac. Story times, craft programs and other activities continue through the summer.

Summer Reading Programs July 5 through July 14

The Americas: North and South
Create Nazca line artwork from Peru.
July 5 at 10:30 a.m. All-American Story Time
July 6 at 2 p.m. Movie Time: An American Tale
July 7 at 10:30 a.m. Peru and the Potato with Donna Fraser-Leary

Australia and Morocco
Make a Moroccan mosaic or an aboriginal art.
July 12 at 10:30 a.m., Mirror, Mirror Story Time
July 13 at 2 p.m., Mirror, Mirror Collage
July 14 at 1 p.m., Sand and Money: A Micro Look at Worldly Goods with Jan Schwarz
Please check the library website (charlottepubliclibrary.org) or call the library (425-3864) for details.

Read to Feed
Don’t miss a chance to participate in the library’s “Read to Feed” contest. The more books you read, the more pennies you get to vote for your choice of animal to donate to Heifer International. According to the organization, “the Read to Feed program encourages reading skills, while teaching students how they can empower families around the world with the gift of livestock, heightening awareness that their actions are making a difference in the lives of others.” Additional donations to our “Read to Feed” effort are welcome.

Charlotte Summer Playgroup
The Charlotte Playgroup will have a summer session at the library on Wednesdays from 10 -11:30 a.m. starting July 13. They will be out on the grass weather permitting, and there will be a new group activity every week. Playgroup dates are July 13, 20 and 27, and August 3, 10 and 17. For more information contact Teressa Tomsen at 764-5820 or by e-mail at teressatomsen@gmail.com.

Summer Reading For All Ages
Novel Destinations: Check out the international mystery cart in the adult fiction section for novels of intrigue and detection in settings around the world, from Durbin to Dublin, Bangkok to Berlin.

New Summer Reads
Adult Fiction:
Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews
One Summer by David Baldacci
Sisterhood Everlasting: A Novel by Ann
Brashares
Astral: A Novel by Kate Christensen
Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy
Kingdom: A Fargo Adventure by Clive Cussler
First Husband: A Novel by Laura
Dave
Carte Blanche: The New James
Bond Novel by Jeffery Deaver
Folly Beach: A Lowcountry Tale
by Dorothea Benton Frank
Children and Fire: A Novel by
Ursula Hegi
Ten Thousand Saints: A Novel
by Eleanor Henderson
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
Hypnotist: A Novel by Lars Kepler
Sister: A Novel by Rosamund Lupton
Trader of Secrets: A Paul Madriani
Novel by Steve Martini
What Alice Forgot: A Novel by Liane
Moriarty
Map of Time: A Novel by Felix J.
Palma
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy
Schaffert
The Year We Left Home: A Novel by
Jean Thompson
Robopocalypse: A Novel by Daniel H.
Wilson

Adult Nonfiction:
Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, 1830-1900
by David G. McCullough
AARP’s Guide to Revitalizing Your Home:
Beautiful Living for the Second Half of Life by
Rosemary Bakker
Those Guys Have All the Fun by James Miller

Young Adult and Teen:
Chime by Franny Billingsley
Flirt Club by Cathleen Daly
What Happened to Goodbye? by Sarah Dessen
Entwined by Heather Dixon
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
Chaos by Rachel Ward

Juvenile Fiction
Missing on Superstition Mountain by Elise
Broach
Dark Life by Kat Falls
Dream of Night by Heather Henson
Reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt by
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Blink & Caution by Tom Wynne-Jones

Juvenile Nonfiction
Year of Goodbyes: A True Story of
Friendship, Family and Farewells by
Debbie Levy
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s
Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery
Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story
of Adventure, Heroism, and Treachery
by Steve Sheinkin

Picture Books and Early Readers
Little Chicken’s Big Day by Jerry Davis
Saying Goodbye to Lulu by Corinne
Demas
Foxy and Egg by Alex T. Smith
Loopy Coop Hens by Janet Stoeke
Pecan Pie Baby by Jacqueline
Woodson
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Summer Reading Suggestions

Here are some favorites of the Charlotte Library staff and volunteers (and all available at the library, too!)

Adult Titles
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Zoo Station by David Downing
West of Here by Jonathan Evison
Moonwalking with Einstein by Jonathan Foer
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by
Jamie Ford
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love by
Kristin Kimball
Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz
Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business by
Dick van Dyke

Children’s Titles
We love these old favorites and if you haven’t discovered them yet, we recommend you do. Great for read-aloud as well as alone on a rainy day.

Wizard of Oz Series by L.
Frank Baum
Freddy the Pig Series by
Walter Brooks
Mary Poppins Series by
P. L. Travers