This is the 13th year the Bruins have partnered with the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System to support literacy programs and encourage reading among youth across the state.
Throughout the summer, Bruins Mascot Blades will visit Massachusetts libraries in an effort to promote the initiative and interact with young readers, who will also have the chance to win official Bruins prizes by competing in hockey trivia and taking photos with Blades.
Libraries across the Commonwealth are also challenging themselves and their residents once again as part of the third annual "First Lady of the Commonwealth and Blades Summer Reading Challenge." The challenge began in 2020 as an option for libraries that made summer reading fully remote during the pandemic and runs from July 1 to August 16. Libraries participating determine their unique challenge goals and are noted below with asterisks.
To help inspire children and teens to keep reading over the summer, Bruins players including Patrice Bergeron, Brandon Carlo and Brad Marchand have helped libraries develop a summer reading list that also includes librarian picks for the best hockey books. To see the "Favorite Books of the Boston Bruins" list, please visit
www.BostonBruins.com/SummerReading
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"When You Read, You Score!" Event Calendar (subject to change):
Friday, June 24 at 10 a.m. - Stoughton Public Library, 84 Park Street, Stoughton, MA
Friday, June 24 at 1:30 p.m. - Joseph H. Plumb Memorial Library, 17 Constitution Way, Rochester, MA
Wednesday, June 29 at 11 a.m. - Edwards Public Library, 30 East Street, Southampton, MA
Thursday, July 14 at 5:30 p.m. - Conant Public Library, 4 Meetinghouse Hill Road, Sterling, MA
\Thursday, July 28 at 11 a.m. - Tyngsborough Public Library, 25 Bryant Lane, Tyngsborough, MA
Friday, July 29 at 10 a.m. - Ipswich Public Library, 25 North Main Street, Ipswich, MA
\Saturday, July 30 at 1 p.m. - Grafton Public Library, 35 Grafton Common, Grafton, MA
*Tuesday, August 9 at 5:30 p.m. - Wilmington Memorial Library, 175 Middlesex Avenue, Wilmington, MA
Thursday, August 11 at 10 a.m. - Wareham Free Library, 59 Marion Road, Wareham, MA
Wednesday, August 17 at 6:30 p.m. - Hamilton-Wenham Public Library, 14 Union Street, Hamilton, MA
