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River Road Books is ready for
your student's summer reading!
Happy Summer! There's nothing like digging into a great book at the beach and we are happy to help find the perfect read for you. Our shelves are stocked with great titles and local summer required reading so stop in, check out your school's list, ask for recommendations and kick off your summer.
River Road Books would also like to invite you to Read Your Tale Off this summer. Read on for our Summer Reading Program, Children's Book Clubs and Writing Workshops and Storytellings! Then email us at riverroadbooks@verizon.net or call in, 732-747-9455, to register. Classes fill quickly, so don't delay!
Check This Out...
 River Road Books' Whale of a Reading Club
Putting great books in the hands of great kids is our pleasure. We are excited to kick off our first annual Read Your Tale off this year. Together, we'll be pooling all of our minutes of reading together and celebrating our mid-summer tally and grand total. How many minutes do you think we'll read together?
Here's what to do...
- Register after June 20th at River Road Books in Fair Haven, pick up your bookmark, and start counting your reading minutes. Get started by buying your first two books and get a free t-shirt!
- Tally every 15 minutes you read or are read to on your bookmark. (Listening to a great read aloud counts and so does reading to your dog)!
- Dump your tallied minutes into the River Road Books Whale of a Tank each time you fill a bookmark.
- Watch our Whale of a Tank Tracker with each minute you read and receive a special invitation to our River Road Books Read Your Tale Off Celebration!! More details to come...
- Attend a storytelling, book club, or writing workshop at the store and get credit for DOUBLE MINUTES! Check out our website for dates and times.
Storytellings
Ages 6 and Under
10:30am Most Tuesdays (June 24, July 1, 8,15 and Aug. 5, 12)
 Book Clubs
Grade 3 (Formerly Grade 2) Book Club
Book #1
June 25th orJuly 2nd at 5:30pm
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Like Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford
It wasn't as if Moxy Maxwell hadn't tried to do her summer reading. She and Stuart Little had been inseparable all summer, like best friends. If Stuart Little wasn't in her backpack, it was in her lap . . . or holding up the coffee table . . . or getting splashed when Moxy went swimming. But now it's the end of August-the day before fourth grade. And if Moxy doesn't read all of Stuart Little immediately, there are going to be "consequences."
Cost: $10.50 for book and club
Book #2
August 6th or August 13th at 5:30pm
Stuart Little by E.B.White
Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure. Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, disappears from her nest. Determined to track her down, Stuart ventures away from home for the very first time in his life. He finds adventure aplenty. But will he find his friend?
Cost: $10.99 for book and club
Grade Five (Formerly Grade Four) Book Club
Book #1
June 25 6:45-7:45pm
George's Secret Key to the Universe by Lucy and Stephen Hawking.
George's parents, who have always been wary of technology, warn him about their new neighbors: Eric is a scientist and his daughter, Annie, seems to be following in his footsteps. But when George befriends them and Cosmos, their super-computer, he finds himself on a wildly fun adventure, while learning about physics, time, and the universe. With Cosmos's help, he can travel to other planets and a black hole. But what would happen if the wrong people got their hands on Cosmos? George, Annie, and Eric aren't about to find out, and what ensues is a funny adventure that clearly explains the mysteries of science.
Cost: $22.99 for club and book
Book #2
August 6 6:45pm
Flying Solo by Ralph Fletcher
When the substitute for Mr. "Fab" Fabiano never shows up and his sixth-grade students are on their own, they set out to prove that they can run the class by themselves. With a little ingenuity and some careful planning, they might just succeed. But when a fight breaks out between Bastian Fauvell and Rachel White over a classmate, Tommy Feathers, who died six months earlier, everything begins to fall apart. Can Rachel deal with the anxieties that plunged her into silence the day Tommy died? Inventive and uniquely constructed, Flying Solo follows Mr. Fab's students hour by hour as they tackle the challenges of an unusual school day.
Cost: $10.99 for club and book
Writing Workshops
Grade Two and Three
Super Secret Journal Club!
(Three Week Workshop--July 1, 8, 15 from 9:30-11:30am)
Join us for a fun three week workshop where we discover the magic of journalling! Together, we'll create personalized journals using the inspirations of fellow and famous writers and discover how to spark the writing bug in you!
Cost: $40.00 for three weeks (includes instruction and supplies)
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