The library creates a reading program each year to encourage students to be mindful of the ways the practice of reading enhances our lives - and how much fun it can be! We are especially excited about Books Change Lives with its connections to our summer reading of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and its genesis coming from the Thompson family's desire to act on what they learned from reading about William Kamkwamba.  The google form is filling up with minutes and we are looking forward to collecting the slips brought in by PK-2nd graders on Friday.  We have set up ways for us all to see our progress in both Tanglewood Library and the Middle School Collection area. What can you do to make sure we meet our goals and get a library established in Nkwanta?

• Read, read, READ and report your minutes.  If you are in 3rd - 8th grade or are an adult who wants to support the program, log your minutes for each week on the google forms: Week 1 log , Week 2 log, Week 3 log, Week 4 log.    PK-2nd grade - bring in your slips each Friday.  Your minutes become miles to get the wildebeest and books to Nkwanta, Ghana.
• Donate new or gently used books that meet the suggested guidelines put out by The African Library Project.  We are setting up a Community Center Library and so are looking for all reading levels.  Bring your donations to the library.
• Drop some coins in the "Change for Change" jars. You can find them in both libraries, the Beestro, at division offices and Scott House. 

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