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<\/a><\/p>\nWe recently held a book fair at a Fairfax County elementary school where 11 members helped\u00a0608 students from pre-K through 6th grade find the perfect book.\u00a0\u00a0Some students needed no help, they searched the titles and topics and quickly made their selections.\u00a0\u00a0Others had a hard time picking just one book and used the\u00a0\u00a0\u2018eeny meeny\u2019 counting rhyme to decide.\u00a0\u00a0After the students found the perfect book, they took it to the signing desk, where members stamped it with \u201cThis book belongs to,” the students signed their names,\u00a0\u00a0and received an Assistance League bookmark.\u00a0\u00a0As always, the students were very appreciative of their new books, as were their teachers, which made a great day even more memorable for our members.<\/p>\n
As part of our Literacy for Kids program, we provide new books to elementary school students to encourage their love of reading and learning.\u00a0\u00a0Through a program called Build a Child\u2019s Library, we hold book fairs each year at the schools we serve to ensure that students will have grade-appropriate reading materials in their homes. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65463,"featured_media":8966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8972,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions\/8972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}. <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"