This year’s Summer Reading Challenge – Space Chase – celebrates 50 years since the first Moon landing.

It all starts at your local library on Saturday 13 July and you can sign up now online: www.westsussex.gov.uk/src.

It’s free to take part and, with the long summer holiday looming, it’s a great way for children to discover books they love while collecting fun rewards.

Whether it’s reading stories, comic books or information books, or listening to audiobooks, there are many ways to take part. Younger children can also have lots of fun by joining the Space Chase Mini Challenge.

Visit your local library for more information and look out for our upcoming announcement of Space Chase activities over the summer.

Some of our libraries are still looking for volunteers - if you're aged 14+ you can apply online and help us run the challenge.

Your local library has gone truly intergalactic this month, offering not only Space Chase for children but plenty of recommended reads for adults too.

We think our 50^th anniversary Moon landing displays, which are bursting with newly published accounts of the space race, astronomy guides and extraordinary science fiction, are out of this world! We hope you’ll be fired up by all things space too.

Don’t forget, many of the books on display at your local library this month are also available from our eLibrary.

You can even read news coverage of the 1969 Moon landing using The Times Digital Archive.

If you can’t get your hands on enough material about the Moon landing, we've got a galaxy of digital magazines and newspapers covering space and many other topics.

You can use your library card to access our free eMagazines service and read a host of titles online, such as the BBC’s bestselling Sky at Night magazine, plus other publications on just about every subject under the sun.

Or would you rather keep your feet firmly on the ground and find out what’s happening on planet Earth? You can access thousands of UK and international newspapers - wherever you are in the world - via our free eNewspapers service.

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Now that summer is here why not borrow one of our reminiscence packs and remember bygone days? Titles like High Days and Holidays and Seaside will take you right back to summers past.

Our Reminiscence Collection consists of 200 packs of objects, music CDs, photographs, jigsaws and replica items, which can help re-awaken people’s memories of their lives.

You can borrow packs on extended loan for free and they can be used either in groups or one-to-one. Why not browse our reminiscence catalogue and find out more about the topics on offer?

Looking for a recommended read? This month’s BBC Book Club read is Davina Langdale’s debut novel The Brittle Star – an epic quest set in the Californian wilderness of the 1850s and 60s.

The action centres on 15-year-old John Evert who, after his mother’s ranch is attacked, finds himself on a journey that will take him to Los Angeles, Texas, Missouri, the front lines of the American Civil War and then home again. Along the way he learns the cost of vengeance and the price of forgiveness.

Why not reserve your copy and tune in to BBC Sussex or BBC Surrey on Wednesday 3 July at 2.10pm to listen to the discussion?

Sir Patrick Moore grew up in East Grinstead and spent much of his life at his Selsey home and personal observatory, Farthings. He was a much-loved astronomer, author and broadcaster, best known for presenting TV show The Sky at Night for more than 50 years.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Moon landing, Dr John Mason MBE will give a special talk at West Sussex Record Office explaining how Sir Patrick contributed to this historic event.

The talk takes place on Tuesday 30 July at 7.00pm and attendees will have the opportunity to view digital copies of Sir Patrick's original observation notebooks, a book signed by Neil Armstrong himself and newspapers from July 1969.

Tickets are £8.00 and should be bought in advance via telephone: 01243 753602. Please email the Record Office for more information.