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​On Oct. 29 and 30, all third-grade students from the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) got the opportunity to meet author Chris Grabenstein and receive a free copy of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Librarythrough a generous donation from the Downtown Kiwanis Club.


“Downtown Kiwanis is a service organization dedicated to reaching and impacting the lives of children in our community,” stated Price Hopson, Downtown Kiwanis President. “Youth Literacy has been one of our most important causes that we have tackled for the past 25 years. We have given over 100,000 books throughout that time to third graders in Clarksville-Montgomery County.”


In partnership with the Clarksville-Montgomery County Education Foundation, the Downtown Kiwanis Club has been sponsoring the Reading Rodeo for the past three years. However, this is the first year that the over 2,700 CMCSS third-graders, their teachers, and school library-media specialists had the opportunity to come together in one location to meet the author of the book selected to be integrated into the district-wide curriculum.


Chris Grabenstein is the New York Times bestselling author of the Lemoncelloseries, the Wonderland series, the award-winning Haunted Mystery series, The Island of Dr. Libris, and many others.


Grabenstein shared his journey to becoming an author with the students, which started when he won his first writing award in fifth grade. “She (his teacher) told me I would make a living as a writer one day,” Grabenstein told the students. “She was right. So, I can tell you guys that you need to listen to your teachers.”


“Mr. Grabenstein worked hard to achieve his dream of becoming a writer,” said Carol Baggett, library-media specialist at Sango. “Children need to see that their goals and dreams can be accomplished with motivation and determination. He inspired them to read and write and have fun at the same time. Maybe one of our students will become the next Chris Grabenstein. I feel fortunate that we could partner with Downtown Kiwanis and the CMC Education Foundation to make this experience happen. Our students will always remember it.”


“We feel it is vital to get children reading at an early age for a lot of reasons,” stated Hopson. “With our reading program, we will reach every single third-grade student in this community, and we hope to make great impacts on their lives. We couldn’t do this without the help of UPS, grants, an anonymous donor, and the CMC Education Foundation. Seeing how excited the students were today lets us know that we are doing right by them, and we hope to continue this for a long time to come.”

The Book Fair is here! The theme this year is Enchanted Forest and it looks so magical. There are plenty of amazing books available this year and I cannot wait to see my students' faces when they finally see it all put up and ready to go. The fair opens Monday, Sept. 10th at 9:00am-3:00pm. It will remain open through Friday, Sept. 14th. This will include the Parent Teacher Conference night and the Family Day festivities that are happening this week. A letter was sent home with your students last week going over the details. This includes the reminder that Scholastic requires that we add tax to the purchases. I will put up the letter on our CMCSS website just in case your's has disappeared. 

Thanks!
Ms. W

The finishing touches to the revamped book clubs are finally done! Just click on the Reading Clubs tab at the top of this page and you will see all of the clubs available. Please make sure that you are paying attention to the grade level requirements for each club. 

​Once you find the club you are wanting to work toward, just click the image and a new window will open so that you can print the form to fill out as you read. When you are done, simply bring it to the library! 

I know so many of you have had questions about the book clubs for this year and I appreciate your patience! 

Sincerely, 
Ms. Rachel Wyatt
WCES Library Media Specialist