As the pictures below suggest, this year's Scholastic Bookfair was a ton of fun! First, the strong sixth graders cleared out the Volunteer Room (Room 102) and then a whirlwind of awesome library volunteers moved in and transformed the space into a beautiful bookstore. We opened on the afternoon of January 22nd with enthusiastic parents and students enjoying the great selection of books and just closed up shop yesterday after our last classroom came through. Many, many books went home with students and many more were purchased by our teachers and by families for classroom and library donations. Thank you to all who shopped and to all who gave their time to make this year's Scholastic Bookfair a great success. Stay tuned to see some of the excellent new books we will purchase for the library with our earnings!
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This week, members of the Student Council have been busy counting and packing books that were left over from NDA's Fall Used Book Sale. After the sale, Cece Golinvaux came to me to propose donating the books to Read Indeed, an organization with which she had volunteered before. This Minnesota-based non-profit literacy organization, started by 13 year-old Maria Keller, distributes books to kids in need near and far. Check out the Read Indeed website to find out more. Thank you to the members of Student Council and to Mrs. Golinvaux, who have given their time in service to NDA and Read Indeed!
Have you seen the New Books feature on the Home Page? I recently added this slide show to call attention to some of the beautiful new books we have received in the past couple of months. The books that we have added to the NDA collection this year have come from family and parishioner donations and from the funds raised at our Barnes and Noble Book Fair in the fall. We will have more new books coming in from Scholastic soon because of your generous patronage of the the Scholastic Bookfair. Thank you so much! Of course there are still more books out there that I'd love to make available to the students, so I'll continue to maintain the Wish List on the Friends page. I also appreciate the student and teacher suggestions for which books to add to the collection. Always feel free to tell me if you know about a great book or series that could be enjoyed by your friends at school. |
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