Kosciusko Literacy Services Launches Plant The Seed, Read! Community Book Read
March 22, 2017 at 4:16 p.m.
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The goals of Plant the Seed, Read! are to cultivate a love of reading, promote a sense of community, encourage reading for pleasure and knowledge, and illustrate the 40 Developmental Assets® as defined by the Search Institute, according to a news release from KLS.
Placed in yellow bins at locations throughout the county, 450 copies of “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway are available to residents of Kosciusko County. Each of the six area libraries hosts a bin.
Residents are encouraged to read the selection, pass it on to a friend, or return it to a bin, and to discuss the book and the 40 Developmental Assets® with friends and discussion groups.
Kosciusko Literacy Services Executive Director Cynthia Cates said, “‘A Farewell to Arms’ was selected to highlight Hemingway’s contributions to American literature. Hemingway’s stories and novels remain classics.”
Both the Plant the Seed, Read! website (www.kcread.org) and the Kosciusko Literacy Services website (www.kosciuskoliteracyservices.org) have more details on the selection including the bin locations.
Professor Elliot Engel will lecture on the “Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway” at Warsaw Community High School, Wawasee High School, Lakeland Christian High School and at the author dinner April 20.
For tickets to the author dinner, call 574-267-5380.
In addition to the availability of “A Farewell to Arms,” copies of “The Old Man and the Sea” are available to classrooms upon request. Each third-grade student in the county will receive a book with a patriotic or historic theme. Preschoolers enrolled in Kosciusko Literacy Services’ Read to Grow Children's Book Club will receive age-appropriate books.
Children and adults also may enter the graphic novel contest, book cover contest and the essay contest. Rules are available at kcread.org.
Book discussions are planned at Milford Public Library at 1 p.m. April 10; Syracuse Public Library at 1 p.m. April 12; and the Warsaw Community Public Library at 6:30 p.m. April 24.
Kosciusko Literacy Services invites adults and teens to read “A Farewell to Arms” by Hemingway to discuss Hemingway’s works, and to read to and with younger children.
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The goals of Plant the Seed, Read! are to cultivate a love of reading, promote a sense of community, encourage reading for pleasure and knowledge, and illustrate the 40 Developmental Assets® as defined by the Search Institute, according to a news release from KLS.
Placed in yellow bins at locations throughout the county, 450 copies of “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway are available to residents of Kosciusko County. Each of the six area libraries hosts a bin.
Residents are encouraged to read the selection, pass it on to a friend, or return it to a bin, and to discuss the book and the 40 Developmental Assets® with friends and discussion groups.
Kosciusko Literacy Services Executive Director Cynthia Cates said, “‘A Farewell to Arms’ was selected to highlight Hemingway’s contributions to American literature. Hemingway’s stories and novels remain classics.”
Both the Plant the Seed, Read! website (www.kcread.org) and the Kosciusko Literacy Services website (www.kosciuskoliteracyservices.org) have more details on the selection including the bin locations.
Professor Elliot Engel will lecture on the “Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway” at Warsaw Community High School, Wawasee High School, Lakeland Christian High School and at the author dinner April 20.
For tickets to the author dinner, call 574-267-5380.
In addition to the availability of “A Farewell to Arms,” copies of “The Old Man and the Sea” are available to classrooms upon request. Each third-grade student in the county will receive a book with a patriotic or historic theme. Preschoolers enrolled in Kosciusko Literacy Services’ Read to Grow Children's Book Club will receive age-appropriate books.
Children and adults also may enter the graphic novel contest, book cover contest and the essay contest. Rules are available at kcread.org.
Book discussions are planned at Milford Public Library at 1 p.m. April 10; Syracuse Public Library at 1 p.m. April 12; and the Warsaw Community Public Library at 6:30 p.m. April 24.
Kosciusko Literacy Services invites adults and teens to read “A Farewell to Arms” by Hemingway to discuss Hemingway’s works, and to read to and with younger children.
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