This web site has all the activities and events for the Read Across the Valley program. We hope that you will join us for John Grogan's presentation at Susquehanna University on Saturday, October 3, 2009.

Beyond that make sure to participate in the many events all over the valley celebrating reading and the joys and tribulations of living with our favorite pets.

Check out the events listed at left and make sure you check back with this site for additional programs that may be added.

Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog
by John Grogan

The story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a bigger-than-life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans.
HarperCollins, 2005
291 pages

"Not long after arriving in steamy South Florida, Jenny and I married, bought a little bungalow together a block off the water, and brought home a wildly neurotic Labrador retriever that we named after a certain famous reggae star. At the time I had no idea our loopy, attention-deficit dog would someday provide me the inspiration to fulfill a lifelong dream of writing a book. Nor that that book, Marley & Me, would go on to become an international bestseller with some 5 million copies sold and be made into a motion picture."