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Summer Reading Game Begins May 26 Focuses on “Building a Better World”
Summer Reading Game Begins May 26 Focuses on “Building a Better World”
The 2017 Summer Reading Game at Medina County District Library kicks off the first day of summer break for many Medina County students – Friday, May 26 and runs through Saturday, August 5.
MCDL hopes to exceed 2016’s record-breaking year when 9,100 kids and teens played the game and collectively read for 12 years, 131 days in just ten weeks!
The 2016 theme, Build a Better World, focuses on STEM and STEAM events as well as reading improvement during the summer and making the world a better place.
“This theme allows us to offer the “building” programs which include STEM education, Lego building events, volunteerism programs and even earth sciences”, says Gail Ebey, Medina Library Children’s Department Supervisor.
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Healthy Living and Wellness at MCDL
Friends of MCDL Summer Sale Dates
Get Your Taste Buds Tingling at MCDL this Summer
Family Food Festival and Bee Festival Summer Highlights at MCDL
Family Food Festival and Bee Festival Summer Highlights at MCDL
Medina County District Library kicks off summer with a Food Festival at the Buckeye Library. Then in July, learn about Medina’s favorite insect at the Bee Festival at Medina Library.
Buckeye Library Family Food Festival Thursday, June 15, 5:00 - 8:00 pm, Buckeye Library, 6625 Wolff Rd. Food fun for the entire family! Enter to win a food-themed basket.Food tasting, cooking demos and a visit from the Samurai Balloon Guy. Visit mcdl.info/FoodFest for more information.
Saturday, July 22, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm, Medina Library, 210 S. Broadway St. Watch Beekeepers open a hive, taste honey, learn about beekeeping, meet Buzz the Bee, get a balloon animal and more. Visit mcdl.info/BeeFest for more information. Click here for more Medina County District Library news. |
Featured Kids/Teen Programs at MCDL this Summer
Art Shows at MCDL Summer 2017
Authors at MCDL
Wed., Sept. 6, 7:00 pm, Brunswick High School Auditorium Jay Asher’s debut YA novel, Thirteen Reasons Why, has appeared regularly on the New York Times bestsellers list for the past 10 years. It has sold over 2.5 million copies in the US alone. His second YA novel, The Future of Us, was coauthored with Printz-honor winner Carolyn Mackler. His novels have been translated into over 30 languages. His third novel, What Light, was released in October 2016. No registration required for this free event. Browse our catalog for titles by Jay Asher. Past Authors
Browse our catalog for titles by Brad Ricca.
Browse our catalog for titles by Jim Gill.
Browse our catalog for titles by Mary Doria Russell.
Browse our catalog for titles by Emily St. John Mandel.
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Jay Asher
Brad Ricca is the author of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes and Super Boys, which won the Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction and was named a Top 10 Book on the Arts by Booklist. His book of poetry, American Mastodon, won the St. Lawrence Book Award. He is a 2014 winner of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Emerging Artist in Literature and is a SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University.
Jim Gill is an award-winning musician and author. His distinctive music play creates the spirit of a family room in the concert hall and is an invitation to children, parents and grandparents to sing and play together!
Mary Doria Russell is the award-winning author of six bestselling novels, including the science fiction classics The Sparrow and Children of God; the Pulitzer-nominated World War II thriller, A Thread of Grace; and a political romance set in 1921 Cairo called Dreamers of the Day. With her latest novels, Doc and Epitaph, Russell has redefined two towering figures of the American West: the lawman Wyatt Earp and the dental surgeon Doc Holliday. The daughter of a sheriff, Mary grew up with cops and guns but also holds a Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the University of Michigan and taught anatomy at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dentistry.
Emily St. John Mandel is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Station Eleven, a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award and MCDL's One Book, One Community 2016 selection. Mandel is the author of three previous novels – Last Night in Montreal, The Singer’s Gun and The Lola Quartet – all of which were Indie Next picks. Mandel was born in British Columbia, Canada. She is a staff writer for The Millions, and her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 and Venice Noir. She lives in New York City with her family.
Thrity Umrigar, author of The Story Hour, The World We Found, The Weight of Heaven, and other novels, is the Armington Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She was born in Bombay, India, and came to the U.S. when she was 21. After earning a business degree, which she survived by writing and acting in plays, she earned her M.A. in English and later received a fellowship at Harvard University, where she wrote her first novel, Bombay Time. Thrity speaks at literary events all over the U.S. 
Lauren Oliver is the bestselling author of the Delirium Trilogy, as well as Before I Fall, Panic, and Vanishing Girls for teens, Liesl & Po and The Spindlers for middle-grade readers, and Rooms for adults. Raised in Westchester, NY, in a family of writers, Oliver has always enjoyed living creatively, often writing sequels for her favorite books as a young adult. She studied literature and philosophy at the University of Chicago and Creative Writing at New York University. She enjoys reading, cooking, traveling, running, dancing, making up weird songs and working in her pajamas.
