Encouraging Fun Summer Reading

Looking for a fun summer project that will capture your child’s love of reading and encourage them to share it? Allow me to introduce you to an enterprising young lady, Becca Halaney. She is thirteen and going into eighth grade. She is a creative writing fanatic and is keenly attuned to grammar. Her favorite book is Of Mice and Men and her favorite author is Victor Hugo. She and several of her friends share a love of reading. They decided to take on a project that would share this love with others. When a friend told them about Little Free Library, they jumped at the challenge.

Little Free Library is a non-profit, community movement in the United States and around the world that offers free books and is housed in small containers to members of the local community. It was started when Todd Bol, a social entrepreneur, mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a school house, on a post on his lawn as a tribute to his mother who was a school teacher and book lover. He filled it with his favorite books and invited his neighbors to borrow them. The idea spread.

Becca and her friends took on the challenge of building their own Little Free Library. They got plans off the Little Free Library website, bought materials and set to work constructing their own library. After overcoming several limitations that Becca will tell you included being “bad” with tools and perhaps worse with their hands, warping wood, constructing a metal roof and challenges with weather stripping not sealing the door effectively, they overcame and were issued official Library number 6309.

Becca told me the most fun part of the project was working along with her friends toward a goal they all supported and were passionate about. As well, she mentioned that when someone dropped off the first book, she and her friends felt proud of their accomplishment. Their Little Free Library is taking off.

In the future, Becca would like to build a bigger library that can hold more books because their initial one is already getting full with all the books people are donating!

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L. R. W. Lee is the author of the middle grade fantasy adventure, Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon’s Fury, Book 1. This is the first in a planned 7-book, coming-of-age series that not only entertains 8 to 12-year-olds, but also weaves throughout the plot, life principles that author Lee hopes will help her reader live a more peaceful and enjoyable life; these principles include overcoming frustration, impatience, fear and more.

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