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Hi! I hold 2 fairs a year with Scholastic. I have a winter fair (starting
tomorrow) and then I do a fair at the end of May. While I always ask myself
why in the heck am I doing a fair so late in the year, it's absolutely
worth it. I work in a 6-8 building and my students all have summer reading
requirements. I work with Scholastic to try to get all those titles, plus
titles that our local high school is assigning for their incoming 9th
grader (our graduating 8th grade). My May book fair is much more
scaled-down in size, but it's still awesome.

It's great to see books in their hands when the kids  leave for the summer.
I also run a book club during the year and we get together at the May fair
and choose our summer book from the fair that we all read. I use my
Scholastic Dollars to purchase those books then loan them out to my book
clubbers. Win Win.
Good luck-
It IS a lot of extra work on top of the extra end-of-the-year work, but I
love it. :)

Let me know if I can help in any way!
Warmly,
Carrie



Carrie Stotz
ITC Director
Marie Murphy School
847-251-3617 ext. 124
stotzc at avoca37.org

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> I work in two buildings that together cover PreK to 8th grade. We usually
> have a one week book fair in the spring. This year I'm considering having
> the fair the 2nd to last week of school. Has anyone had a fair that late in
> the year? Can you tell me the positives and the negatives?
>
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> Donna Brockmeyer
> Media Clerk
> District 110, Grant and Illini
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