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Sign up for the library's Summer Reading program June 1

May 9, 2007

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PORTLAND, OR – Youth from birth through age 18 can sign up for Summer Reading at any Multnomah County library beginning June 1.

Last year, nearly 57,000 babies, kids and teens — including more than half the county's elementary students — participated in Summer Reading. The program encourages students to keep reading when school is out, strengthening skills learned in the classroom that can be lost over the summer.

Summer Reading participants keep track of their reading time on a gameboard to earn prizes and other incentives from the library. The library hosts fun Summer Reading events throughout the summer, everything from Pirate Maps to Swing Dancing to Bicycle Maintenance for Teens.

Caregivers can win prizes for prereaders, too, by reading to them. In fact, all participants may count time they are read to. Other reading-related activities that count include drawing, visiting the library and listening to an audiobook.

Summer Reading ends Aug. 31. Learn more at the Summer Reading website: www.multcolib.org/summer.

Adults who want to join in the fun can play Read 4 Life, summer reading for adults. Read 4-6 books and enter to win. Visit www.multcolib.org/events/read4life.html for details.

The Summer Reading program is made possible by generous donations to The Library Foundation from Comcast, Key Bank, Tektronix, and MetroFi. Thanks to these generous community partners: The Oregonian, TriMet, Portland Beavers and Portland Winter Hawks.

Special thanks to Meyer Memorial Trust and The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation for funding the expansion of Summer Reading 2007.