Are you a soccer fan? Love to read? Well you’re in luck! Players from the New England Revolution are coming to selected branches of the Boston Public Library to share some soccer stories and pass along their skills and talents on the soccer field. As part of this unique partnership between the Boston Public Library, the New England Revolution, the Boston Center for Youth and Families and City Kicks, players will read excerpts from soccer books at a Boston Public Library neighborhood branch and then conduct a clinic at a nearby soccer facility.

• Roslindale Branch Library and Community Center, Tuesday May 24th at 4 PM

• Lower Mills Branch Library and Walsh Field, Tuesday June 7th at 4 PM

• Tobin Community Center (next to Parker Hill Branch Library), Wednesday June 15th at 4 PM

• East Boston Branch Library and Harborside Community Center, Tuesday June 21st at 4 PM

For more information visit your local branch library or the Boston Public Library’s Website at www.bpl.org/news/readingrevolution

For more than 150 years, the Boston Public Library has pioneered public library service in America with revolutionary ideas and famous firsts. Established in 1848, the BPL was the first publicly supported municipal library in America, the first public library to lend books, the first to have a branch library and the first to have a children’s room. Today, the BPL boasts 27 neighborhood branches, free Internet access, two unique restaurants, an award-winning website www.bpl.org and an on-line store featuring reproductions of the BPL’s priceless photographs and artwork. Each year, the BPL hosts nearly 5000 programs, answers more than one million reference questions and serves millions of people in its National Historic Landmark McKim Building in Copley Square. All of its programs and exhibits are free and open to the public. At the Boston Public Library, books are just the beginning!

Prepared by the Boston Public Library's Communications Office. For more information about news, programs and events at the BPL, call 617-859-2212 or send a message to the Communications Office.