Summer Reading Club Registration
Welcome to HCPL's Summer Reading Club 2013.

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Upcoming Events
Title
Date
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Time
9:30 AM
Description
Kids ages 2-3 1/2 and a caregiver, join us for stories, music, crafts and lots of fun!
Location
Youth Program Room
Library
HCPL - Central Library

Title
Date
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Time
9:30 AM
Description
Kids ages 2-3 1/2 (with a caregiver), share stories, songs, fingerplays and crafts.
Location
Lilly Technology Room
Library
HCPL - Sugar Creek Branch

Title
Date
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Time
10:15 AM
Description
Kids age 3 1/2-K, join us for crafts, stories, and songs.
Location
Youth Program Room
Library
HCPL - Central Library

Title
Date
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Time
10:15 AM
Description
For children age 3 1/2-K (on their own), share stories, songs, fingerplays and crafts.
Location
Lilly Technology Room
Library
HCPL - Sugar Creek Branch

Title
Date
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Time
2:00 PM
Description
Kids, entering grades K-5, find out what lies under the grass in your own backyard. Then start a plant to take home, and learn to paint with (ugh!) worms. Dress for a mess.
Location
Youth Program Room
Library
HCPL - Central Library

Title
Date
Friday, June 21, 2013
Time
All Day
Description
It's craft day every Thursday this summer through July 26. Kids can drop by the children's room any time between 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. to try a different project each week.

No registration is needed. Supplies are limited to the first 50 participants.
Library
HCPL - Sugar Creek Branch

Title
Date
Friday, June 21, 2013
Time
All Day
Description
It's craft day every Friday this summer, June 7 through July 19, at the library.

Kids can drop by the children's room any time between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. to try a different project each week.

There’s no need to register. Supplies are limited to the first 50 participants.
Library
HCPL - Central Library

Title
Date
Friday, June 21, 2013
Time
10:00 AM
Description
The library hosts free, family concerts with "Spoon Man" Jim Cruise. Playing for all audiences, this musical comedian has a totally clean act: he never uses dirty silverware.

Spoon Man's performance features outrageous impressions, such as, a heavy metal spoon player, a rap artist, and Glen Miller and Elvis Presley performing as one person. Cruise holds a sing-a-long competition and enlists a mountain band from audience members. Plus, everyone has an opportunity to get “spooned” when Cruise plays on their hands (or heads).

Cruise was the first American spoon musician to perform in Russia. He has entertained Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow, former President Gerald R. Ford in Grand Rapids, and Mister Rogers in Pittsburgh.

This free, family program is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Hancock County Public Library through the sale of donated books, DVDs & CDs.
Location
Lilly Technology Room
Library
HCPL - Sugar Creek Branch

Title
Date
Friday, June 21, 2013
Time
2:00 PM
Description
The library hosts free, family concerts with "Spoon Man" Jim Cruise. Playing for all audiences, this musical comedian has a totally clean act: he never uses dirty silverware.

Spoon Man's performance features outrageous impressions, such as, a heavy metal spoon player, a rap artist, and Glen Miller and Elvis Presley performing as one person. Cruise holds a sing-a-long competition and enlists a mountain band from audience members. Plus, everyone has an opportunity to get “spooned” when Cruise plays on their hands (or heads).

Cruise was the first American spoon musician to perform in Russia. He has entertained Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow, former President Gerald R. Ford in Grand Rapids, and Mister Rogers in Pittsburgh.
Location
GBC Community Room A & B
Library
HCPL - Central Library

Title
Date
Friday, June 21, 2013
Time
4:00 PM
Description
The library hosts free, family concerts with "Spoon Man" Jim Cruise. Playing for all audiences, this musical comedian has a totally clean act: he never uses dirty silverware.

Spoon Man's performance features outrageous impressions, such as, a heavy metal spoon player, a rap artist, and Glen Miller and Elvis Presley performing as one person. Cruise holds a sing-a-long competition and enlists a mountain band from audience members. Plus, everyone has an opportunity to get “spooned” when Cruise plays on their hands (or heads).

Cruise was the first American spoon musician to perform in Russia. He has entertained Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow, former President Gerald R. Ford in Grand Rapids, and Mister Rogers in Pittsburgh.
Location
GBC Community Room A & B
Library
HCPL - Central Library

Title
Date
Monday, June 24, 2013
Time
10:30 AM
Description
Kids age 3 1/2-K, come to this unique session combining traditional story time with a computer class. Crafts are included.
Location
Youth Program Room
Library
HCPL - Central Library

Title
Date
Monday, June 24, 2013
Time
1:30 PM
Description
Kids entering grades K-5, learn about pirates and buried treasure. Then make a craft to take home.
Location
Lilly Technology Room
Library
HCPL - Sugar Creek Branch

Title
Date
Monday, June 24, 2013
Time
4:00 PM
Description
For 'tweens only, ages 9 to 12, meet your friends over the summer. Challenge them to Wii and Xbox 360 games that display on the library's huge screens. Enjoy board games, cards, and snacks between rounds.

Location
GBC Community Room A & B
Library
HCPL - Central Library

Title
Date
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Time
9:30 AM
Description
For babies up to 24 months and a caregiver, join a storytime that combines stories, rhymes, songs and fingerplays.

When babies are read to, they experience the rhythm and melody of language even before they understand the spoken or printed word.
Location
Youth Program Room
Library
HCPL - Central Library

Title
Date
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Time
10:15 AM
Description
Kids ages 2-3 1/2 and a caregiver, join us for stories, music, crafts and lots of fun!
Location
Youth Program Room
Library
HCPL - Central Library

Title
Date
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Time
2:00 PM
Description
Kids entering grades K-5, learn about pirates and buried treasure. Then make a craft to take home.
Location
Youth Program Room
Library
HCPL - Central Library

Title
Date
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Time
6:30 PM
Description
The library presents MadCap Puppets, performing FANTASTIC FAIRY TALES.

Meet the king’s royal court jester, Flump! Flump accidentally overhears a plot by the wizard Glistor to turn the king into a mouse. As he entertains and amazes the audience with fantastic fairy tales, Flump tries to discover a way to save the king.

The stories unfold with giant puppets, audience participation, and a surprise twist to each fairy tale classic. Hear "The Wishing Tree," "The Water of Life," and "Rapunzel."
Location
GBC Community Room A & B
Library
HCPL - Central Library

If you have already registered for the Summer Reading Club, enter your user name and click on the Login button. New users click on the Sign Me Up button.
Important Messages

Kids Summer Reading Club Guidelines

  • The “Dig into Reading” summer reading club is for babies up to students entering grade 5 in the fall.
  • Beginning June 1, sign up for the club, or stop by the Hancock County Public Library in Greenfield, the Sugar Creek Branch in New Palestine, or the Techmobile.
  • Read a book. Then log it online. Need help? Ask at the children's desk.
  • Read and log seven books, and pick out your own free book (1 per child).
  • Keep reading books all summer long for small “U-pick” prizes.
  • Pick up small prizes, including free book, by August 1 when the club ends.
  • Each book that you read & log online creates an automatic entry into our grand prize drawing (no paper tickets this year). The more you read, the greater your chances. You might win Indiana State Fair tickets, a new bicycle, or an iPod shuffle. The drawing takes place after August 1, and winners will be notified. Grand prizes must be picked up by August 9.

Kids Summer Reading Club 2013 Flowchart
Reviews
Title
Brain freeze. DC super friends
Author
J.e.Bright
Review
It's ok
Rating
Title
Jules the Mule
Author
Cindy Clements
Review
Jules plays outside and gets in trouble.
Rating
Title
Mouse's First Fall
Author
Lauren Thompson
Review