The Bermuda National Library will be holding its first Summer Reading Programme Launch Party on June 27 from 11am-3pm.

Join them as they celebrate stories told through music and spoken word. Enjoy food, fun castles, entertainment and sign up to Read to the Rhythm.

• Youth Library picks of the week:

• Copeland, Misty. Life in Motion. New York: Touchstone Books, c2014. B/COP. As the only African-American soloist dancing with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland has made history. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school community centre, no one expected the undersized, anxious 13-year-old to become a ground-breaking ballerina.

• Mack, Lorrie. Dance. New York: DK, c2012. 792.809/M. From prehistory to the present, from Africa to the Arctic, the human instinct to move in time to music and rhythm has long been celebrated through the art of dance. Dance contains everything readers need to know about the dance world, from the history of the tango to breakin’, ballet, and the cha-cha, to the influence of classic choreographers and modern dancers, including Isadora Duncan, Fred Astaire, Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson.

• Hill, Laban Carrick. When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the creation of hip hop. New York: Roaring Brook Press, c2013. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born. From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, here’s how Kool Herc came to be a DJ, how youths in gangs stopped fighting to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world.