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Summer Reading Clubs: June 1 - August 31, 2008
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Sign up for CRRL's free summer reading clubs and have fun reading all summer long! You can sign up online or in any branch.
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 Catch the Reading Bug
Buggy fun for kids ages 0-12.
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 Metamorphosis @ Your Library
A transformational reading experience for teens ages 13-18.
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 Long, Hot Summer
Beat the heat with cool summer reading for adults.
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In AnswerPoint 
What a Difference a Year Makes
What would you do if you had an entire year free? If you had no family, work or financial obligations, what would you do with a year? Read more.
In ArtsPoint
Music on the Steps
July 28 - St. George's Jazz Ensemble
Join your friends and neighbors at the Library's Monday Night Music on the Steps at the Headquarters Library. Every Monday this summer at 7pm local musicians will entertain and delight. Please bring a blanket or lawn chair and a picnic dinner. In case of inclement weather, the concert will be held in the theater. See the full Music on the Steps line-up.
In HistoryPoint
Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier
By Louis Leon
Louis Leon joined North Carolina's Charlotte Grays in April 1861. He was to serve throughout the war and spent considerable time in Virginia. Captured at the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864, he spent the war's last months imprisoned at two notorious facilities: Point Lookout, Maryland and Elmira, New York. He published his war-time diary in 1913. Read more.
In KidsPoint
On the Writing Road with Jack, Joey, and Rotten Ralph
Jack Gantos knows that a kid can be wacky AND wonderful. Crazy things happen to kids all the time. Take his character, Joey Pigza. He can't sit still in class, and accidents seem to be waiting to happen. He's a live wire, just like his dad and his grandmother.
In TeensPoint
Guys Read, Too!
We can't all be a popular jock and, really, who wants to be? Let's here it for the underdog in all of us! These books prove that geeky guys can survive and even thrive with a wry sense of humor and a dose of brainpower.
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