Need additional ideas to supplement your summer reading program’s “Adventure Begins at Your Library?” Come meet Smokey the Bear and his handler at the conference and find out how your library can participate in the Smokey the Bear Reading Challenge even after summer is over. Learn about all the fun events that are being planned across NJ this summer for Smokey’s birthday to share with your library patrons. Find out how The NJ Forest Service partners with the US Forest Service to provide wildfire prevention messaging and education through materials and books, including NJ author Lisa Funari-Willever’s chapter book Nicky Fifth’s Five Alarm. In it, a NJ Forest Fire Service employee and the book’s characters “T-bone” and “Quincy” team up for an exciting forest-themed adventure.