Adults have asked for it, so here it is — your very own anime club! Saturday August 20th, 2:00-4:00PM. Watch the hottest new shows/films and enjoy japanophilia together.

Kathie getting ready for Crazy Hat Day.

All next week, join the CPL staff in dressing fun, and earn badges during the last week of Connect Your Summer too! Just come to the library in spirit-appropriate attire on the following days:

Tweens and Teens, do you watch the Amazing Race on TV? Interested in embarking on your own adventure? Join us in the library for a race of your own. You will travel around the library and complete tasks from all around the world. Maybe you will be the one to conquer the Dewey Decimal System!

Who: Kids, Tweens and Teens, going into grades 4 & up
When: Friday, August 5, 1:00-2:30PM
Where: Library Community Room
Registration begins Friday, July 22

Note: This event has been canceled.

Are you a master driver or pro mushroom thrower? On August 11 from 2:00-4:00PM, teens going into grades 7-12 can prove your driving skills at our Mario Kart Tournament.

Join us Thursday, July 28, 1:00-3:00PM for Backyard Games! We'll have badminton, bocce ball, croquet, lawn bowling, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, hula hoops, and a bunch more. Bring back the joy of summer with this all ages event!

[Photo by Rachel Monroe on flickr]

Wicket, gully, bowler, batsman… learn all about the game of cricket from the Michigan Cricket Association on Thursday July 21st from 7:00-8:30PM. A major sport in England and India, cricket is becoming more popular here in the United States. In fact, Canton recently unveiled the Township's first cricket field in Heritage Park. Find out more about this game of fierce competition and skill while earning a Connect Your Summer Sports Fan Badge! No registration necessary.
Photo courtesy of eLibrary.

Play the scene: the ultimate collection of contemporary and classic scenes and monologues by Michael Schulman and Eva Mekler

The collected plays of Neil Simon, volume IV by Neil Simon

It's a slippery slope by Spalding Gray

Red diaper baby: 3 comic monologues by Josh Kornbluth

The piano lesson by August Wilson

Getting Frankie married - and afterwards: and other plays by Horton Foote

Prom kings and drama queens by Dorian Cirrone

So not the drama: a Del Rio Bay Clique novel by Paula Chase

Keysha's drama by Earl Sewell

Confessions of a teenage drama queen by Dyan Sheldon

The rules for hearts: a family drama by Sara Ryan

Actor's choice: monologues for teens by edited by Erin Detrick

12 fabulously funny fairy tale plays by Justin McCory Martin

15 Plays for Beginning Readers Famous Americans by Carol Pugliano-Martin

Cinderella outgrows the glass slipper and other zany fractured fairy tale plays by J. M. Wolf

Charlie and the chocolate factory: a play by adapted by Richard George

Plays from fairy tales: grades K-3 by L.E. McCullough

Children's Programs

• Movie and Craft at your Library — July 6, 10:00-10:45AM
• Pokemon Tournament — July 23, 1:00-5:00PM
• International Game Day — July 26, 1:00-3:00PM
• Family Karaoke — July 26, 7:00-8:30PM
• Backyard Games — July 28, 1:00-3:00PM
• Puppet Show and Craft at your Library — August 2, 10:00-10:45AM

Tween Programs

• Duct Tape Mania — July 20, 2:00-2:45PM
• Pokemon Tournament — July 23, 1:00-5:00PM
• The Amazing Dewey Race — August 5, 1:00-2:30PM

Teen Programs

• Board Gaming League of Canton — July 2 and August 6, Noon-5:30PM
• Animanga Club — July 20, 8:30-8:45PM
• Pokemon Tournament — July 23, 1:00-5:00PM
• Mario Kart Tournament — August 11, 2:00-4:00PM