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The Deer Park Library is looking for a Battle Team!

Be part of an awesome team!

If you love to read, terrific!  If you like competition, even better!  The Deer Park  Library’s Young Adult department is now taking names for 2013 Battle of the Books team.

The Suffolk County Battle of the Books program is an inter-library competition between teams of tweens and teens that focuses on 8 young adult novels.  It’s a fun filled event open to kids entering 6th – 9th grades in the Fall of 2013.

Here’s the info: the event takes place on Saturday, August 10th at the Javits Lecture Center at Stony Brook University.  Titles will be announced June 1st and the Library will have practice meetings.  All participants must be able to commit to the meetings and the competition.

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We hope you’ll take the chance to make some new friends and be part of an awesome team!  And have a great time too!  For more information, please call us at 586-3000.  For general information on Battle of the Books, please visit suffolkbattle.org.

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