MLC and MPB are partnering to celebrate and promote PBS’s The Great American Read. 100 books, one winner. Help choose America’s favorite book!

Read the list of 100 books: http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/books/#/

Download a one-page checklist of the 100 titles here: TGAR Book Checklist

Take the quiz: http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/quiz/

Need downloadable posters such as these? Go here: http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/resources/downloads/ 

For libraries:

• Use the hashtag #greatreadms when participating in social media about The Great American Read.
• Enter the Display Contest! Create a library display around the theme of The Great American Read, take a picture, and send to Ally Mellon  (amellon@mlc.lib.ms.us). We’ll pass it on to our friends at MPB, who will decide the winner, which we’ll announce at the August Public Library Directors’ meeting on August 16-17.
• Print this reading challenge card:

• Just want the list of ten challenges? Read a book…
  • you’ve never heard of
  • with a person’s name in the title
  •  set in the future
  • you’ve been meaning to read
  • that became a film
  • by someone who doesn’t look like you
  • you think might be overrated
  • from a genre you usually avoid
  • that’s set in a different country
  • published over 100 years ago
• Plan your programs around The Great American Read! MPB will promote your The Great American Read programs. Just let Jennifer Lena (jlena@mlc.lib.ms.us) or Ally Mellon (amellon@mlc.lib.ms.us) know and we will share your activities.
• Want to make a sports-type bracket to let your community decide its favorite book? Here’s a blank bracket, or use ours with filled-in Mississippi titles.

For any questions about MLC’s participation in The Great American Read, contact Jennifer Lena (jlena@mlc.lib.ms.us)

Feeling peckish? Curl up with a book and get yourself a snack from some of The Great American Read’s most notable dishes. (Download the menu here.)