{"id":9768,"date":"2026-04-02T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?p=9768"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:16:08","slug":"summer-reads-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/2026\/04\/02\/summer-reads-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer will be here soon.\u00a0 That\u2019s a time when elementary students can lose a lot of ground if they don\u2019t keep reading over the break.\u00a0\u00a0We provide new books each month over the summer to students in low-income families at the elementary schools we serve so they can continue reading while school is out<\/p>\n<p>You can help support our literacy efforts by making a selection from our April wish list. This month\u2019s New Books for Kids Wish List includes popular favorites for young children such as\u00a0<em>Good Night Moon<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Corduroy<\/em>, as well as \u201cI Survived\u201d books describing historical events. The list also includes sports-focused book sets to appeal to the sports enthusiasts and several dual language books. \u00a0We have something for every grade level.<\/p>\n<p>Use this link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.alnv.org\/7gs\">https:\/\/tiny.alnv.org\/7gs<\/a>\u00a0or scan the QR code on the flyer to make your selections, and choose Assistance League of Northern Virginia as the shipping address for prompt delivery. If you prefer not to order through Amazon, you can make a donation and send a personal check for the items. Send your check, made out to ALNV, to P.O. Box 209, Herndon, VA 20172 and include &#8220;Wish List\/April in the memo line.<\/p>\n<p>Your contribution will help provide vulnerable students with ready access to books to assure their skills don\u2019t slip over the summer break.\u00a0Explore all our programs\u00a0elsewhere on this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer will be here soon.\u00a0 That\u2019s a time when elementary students can lose a lot of ground if they don\u2019t keep reading over the break.\u00a0\u00a0We provide new books each month over the summer to students in low-income families at the elementary schools we serve so they can continue reading while school is out You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95369,"featured_media":9769,"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":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768","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\/95369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9770,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions\/9770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}