Join us each Friday at 10:30 am for our weekly storytime on our children's stage. We will read a different story each week and create something fun following the story.

If you need an excuse to go to the mall, here's one: Your kid will be safer! Well ... kind of.

Crabtree Valley will be offering its Kode-A-Kid card. It's a plastic laminated ID card which includes your child's photo, name, vital statistics and contact information for emergencies. One card goes to the child and one to the parent.

It's free.

Plus, Friday is the start of the state's tax holiday. Go here for details on what's tax free this weekend.

Borders and Waldenbooks will celebrate the release of "Breaking Dawn," the fourth and final book in Stephanie Meyer's bestselling vampire-inspired "Twilight" series, with in-store book release parties starting at 9:30 p.m. and ending at midnight when the book goes on sale.

There will be costume and trivia contests and debates on the themes from the series.

Come celebrate the release of Stephenie Meyer's "Breaking Dawn" at Quail Ridge Books & Music at a special "after hours" party. This is the fourth book in Meyer's incredibly popular Twilight saga.