Contest

Read the winning entries! As part of the 2012 Centre County Reads community read of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the Center for American Literary Studies at Penn State sponsored a Grim Reaper Writing Contest. Because The Book Thief is narrated by Death, the contest asked for submissions to be written from the point of view of Death. Thank you to everyone who entered!

The winners are:

Grand Prize Winner: Kathleen Miller, "Forgetting" (short fiction)

Are you dreaming of summer reading? Warm up by reading good books this winter! Read 25 books between January 3 and March 31 and you will win a prize. Pick up an entry form at the adult department referenceQuestions that you ask of library staff that require knowledge of the content of the collection or other resources such as those on the web. Sometimes you are referred to the answer, hence Reference. Reference can also refer to our reference materials that are often encyclopedic books that have many volumes and a concentrated number of facts and/or statistics. These materials usually have an overnight loan period so they are available in the library most of the time. desk.

A completed entry form may be redeemed for a prize.

One prize per person.

The Winter Reading Challenge is for adults and teens (12 and over).

Do you know the answer to "Who was the first African American umpire in major league history?"  If you can find out, then you could win a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame! 

Click on the link to get an age-appropriate playbook, find answers to four questions, and mail or submit them online by September 1st, 2009! Once completed, you are entered to win a grand prize trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame!