This year two Newbery Award Winners are featured in the city's Provo Reads program sponsored by Provo City Library. We hope many of our families are enjoying reading these selections together. It is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, the 1963 Newbery Medal winner. The second selection, When You Reach Me, was the 2010 medal winner.
Author, Rebecca Stead, flew from New York to be in Provo on Tuesday for an appearance at the Provo City Library in the evening. Dixon Middle School was privileged to have Mrs. Stead come for a few hours in the morning. She visited three English classes, then met with a large group in the library. She gave a warm and personable talk about the origins and development of her book, When You Reach Me. A Wrinkle In Time served as a significant inspiration for her book and much of its content was drawn from Mrs. Stead's own experiences growing up in New York.
Both of these books count for the reading contest underway! Remember to sign your English teacher's list when you complete the reading. You can earn a class reward (banana splits or....), and you can help win $$$$ for our Dixon library. That will help us to buy new books.
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