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How did your summer reading goal turn out? Check out the results of the 2022 Summer Break challenge.

Summer Break 2022 Wrap up

August 8, 2022

Oh, where has the time gone?

It’s a wrap for Summer Break 2022.  Thank you to all of those who participated in the 2022 Summer Break Challenge. Queen Charlotte collected her earned prizes. Have you? Please collect any earned prizes by August 20, 2022, at your local branch location. Charlotte Football Club winners will be selected from completers by a drawing via Beanstack on August 15, 2022 and will be contacted via email.

 

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A total of 9.1 million minutes were logged for reading. 

 

Over 70,080 badges earned.

More than 45,000 activities completed.

 

The Summer Beak Team hopes you enjoyed reading more and participating in different activities. 

We put forth a challenge to the community to beat this year’s numbers for 2023. Do you have it in you?

 

Top Five Books Read   

Here are the top 5 books read all summer by our Summer Break readers! Are they what you expected? What were your favorite summer reads?

  1. Holy Bible
  2. Richard Scarry's Bedtime Stories
  3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
  4. Harry Potter and the Prison of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
  5. Dogman by Dav Pilkey

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The 2022 Summer Break program is brought to you by Charlotte Mecklenburg Library with additional support from Wendy’s, Charlotte Football Club's Greater Goals, and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation. 

Davidson Library

119 South Main Street
Davidson, NC 28036
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Founders Hall Library

100 N Tryon Street, Suite 290
Charlotte, NC 28202
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Matthews Library

230 Matthews Station St.
Matthews, NC 28105
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Mint Hill Library

6840 Matthews - Mint Hill Road
Mint Hill, NC 28227
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(704) 416-5200
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Myers Park Library

1361 Queens Road
Charlotte, NC 28207
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ABI/Inform Collection
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ABI/INFORM Complete contains a host of resources for all your business research needs. Journal articles, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers are all available.

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ABI/INFORM Complete contains a host of resources for all your business research needs. Journal articles, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers are all available.

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Access Video Collection
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Access Video Collection (by Films on Demand) offers thousands of high quality streaming videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.

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Just for Kids Access Video Collection
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The Just for Kids Access Video Collection (by Films on Demand) gives children—and their parents—a thoroughly kid-safe, advertisement-free media platform they can freely explore and enjoy. Just for Kids has the educational videos children want to watch, plus songs, games, and other interactives that are sure to entertain, educate, and inspire young patrons. Plus, this streaming collection is ideal for librarians hosting a video storytelling hour activities for preschoolers and early learners, an after-school or ESL/ELL program, homework help, or resources for homeschoolers that they can access anywhere, anytime.

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