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Welcome to the Athens Community of Readers

Hello everyone!

This is the first post of many, I hope, in which we can begin to share a conversation about the books we are reading.  I had an idea about starting a blog for our students back a couple of months ago and the current distanced learning situation just made my spark of an idea seem like a fire.  And so it begins...

I would love for students (CMS and from other schools around the community), parents, community members and teachers to send me book reviews (written or video), pictures of themselves reading etc. to share within our community and beyond.

I will focus most of my reviews on books available online since we don't currently have access to our libraries, but feel free to share about books you have at home or books you've ordered online ( Avid Bookshop can ship to your home and they are offering some scheduled pickup at their store) or found at the Little Free Libraries around town (I'm driving around and placing books in those every few days so if you are looking for books, go there and drop off your books you are not using too.  Be sure to sterilize any books you pick up there).

Please go visit the CMS Media Center Website eBooks page today and see all the online reading you can do there.



Feel free to respond to this blog post about ideas or email me at hingers@clarke.k12.ga.us

Happy Reading!

Mrs. Hinger 



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