Category: Book Lists

Spring Reading

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Spring Reading

Put some spring in your step and get reading! Log your books and enter tickets into our grand prize raffle drawing (the winner chooses either Food City or Paris Farmers Union gift certificate). Check out our Recommended Reading Lists, try a new kind of book or a new author, explore our how-to and nonfiction section, listen to an audiobook; so many ways to try something new!

Kids will earn small prizes for each book they read and a medium prize for each reading log page they complete.

Help us reach our Community Read 2021 Goal of 1,000 books before December 31st and we’ll have a great celebration for everyone! We are already well on our way, we have read over 300 books so far this year.

Thank you to the Friends of Bridgton Library for funding the prizes and supporting reading in our community!

Celebrate National Reading Month

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Celebrate National Reading Month

March is Celebrate National Reading Month with Read Across America, a project of the National Education Association. They have put together book lists around themes to celebrate every month and encourage young readers to explore new ideas and themes. Find lists celebrating National Reading Month, Women’s History Month, and Pi Day (March 14th). 

For March the theme is Cultivate Compassion. Remember, reading diverse books helps students walk in someone’s shoes and think about how other people may feel. Talk about what they read and how to put their compassion into action.

Recommended titles include:

  • Elementary- Tiara’s Hat Parade by Kelly Starling Lyons
  • Middle Grade- Each Tiny Spark by Pablo Cartaya
  • Young Adult- They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott

And get ready for April’s book list when Read Across America explores books that Inspire Stewardship.