Book Fair Provides A New Book To Over 600 Elementary Students

As part of its Literacy for Kids program, Assistance League of Northern Virginia provides new books to elementary school students to encourage their love of reading and learning. Through a program called Build a Child’s Library, the nonprofit holds book fairs each year at the schools it serves to ensure that students will have grade-appropriate reading materials in their homes. Assistance League offers a wide range of books on topics that students will like and arranges them on tables according to reading skills.

The nonprofit recently held a book fair at a Fairfax County elementary school where 11 members helped 608 students from pre-K through 6th grade find the perfect book. Some students needed no help, they searched the titles and topics and quickly made their selections. Others had a hard time picking just one book and used the ‘eeny meeny’ counting rhyme to decide. After the students found the perfect book, they took it to the signing desk, where members stamped it with “This book belongs to,” the students signed their names, and received an Assistance League bookmark. As always, the students were very appreciative of their new books, as were their teachers, which made a great day even more memorable for Assistance League members.