This year the Rockingham Public Library is having their first-ever Annual Summer Read-A-Thon fundraiser! A 24-hour event beginning Friday, August 6th at noon and ending Saturday, August 7th at noon to raise money for the Rockingham Library. Everyone of all ages can participate!

Pick up sponsor sheets at the Library or Village Square Booksellers, then ask your friends, neighbors, and relatives to sponsor you for reading (by yourself, or with an adult reading to you) on the sponsor pledge sheet. People may sponsor you with a set amount, or may pledge money for every hourly increment that you spend engaged with a book (audio books count!) during the 24-hour Read-a-Thon. Readers can stay for the full 24 hour event or just part of it. During the event there will also be food, games, celebrity readers, prizes, and more! After the Read-A-Thon, return your forms and donations to the Library no later than August 31st. This fundraiser will help support your Library and all the programs the Library offers!

Pat Fowler, on the board of the Friends of the Library, will be participating in this event by reading aloud.  We'll also be donating advanced reader copies (books) for prizes.