With the summer holiday period fast approaching, Newcastle Libraries has your holiday reading material sorted, with an exhilarating summer reads program, offering something for everyone from podcasts, events and conversations.
\nRunning until February 2021, Your Summer Stories encompasses a children\u2019s summer reading challenge, with activities and grand prizes, plus, an adult (including young adult) summer reads program, featuring a curated selection of seven must read titles by award winning Australian authors:<\/p>\n
You can borrow or reserve your copy from any Newcastle Libraries branch, the eLibrary, or get your Grab and Go copy at the Digital Library 12 Stewart Avenue, Newcastle West. With the summer holiday period fast approaching, Newcastle Libraries has your holiday reading material sorted, with an exhilarating summer reads program, offering something for everyone from podcasts, events and conversations. Running until February 2021, Your Summer Stories encompasses a children\u2019s summer reading challenge, with activities and grand prizes, plus, an adult (including young adult) summer … Continue reading “Newcastle Libraries launch Your Summer Stories”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHead over to the Newcastle Libraries \u2018Real\u2019 podcast channel to listen to our conversational podcast series hosted by Dan Cox from 1233 ABC Newcastle, exploring the themes of resilience, change and love, featuring award-winning Australian authors. Your Summer Stories podcast episodes will be dropping regularly until late January 2021.
\nYour Summer Stories also Rewards Your Reading and the easiest way to get involved is by registering and using City\u2019s new online reading and activity tracker, Beanstack or by downloading the Beanstack app for Apple or Android.
\nOnce you have registered yourself and your family members with Beanstack, join the Your Summer Stories challenges for adults or the Your Summer Stories – Rewarding your Reading challenge for kids up to 14 years of age. When you have completed a book or an activity, log this in the challenge and see what rewards you release!
\nYour reading also gets rewarded in the Lean in Newy app. Download now to find out how!
\nBy participating in our reading challenge via Beanstack – kids go in the draw to win one of three Kobo Claras or one of eight $50 vouchers from Maclean\u2019s Booksellers.
\nFor more information on Your Summer Stories,\u00a0visit<\/a>
\nShare your summer story on social media with #YourSummer @NewcastleLibrariesAU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"