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The Scholastic Book Fair will visit Crocker during fall conferences in November. All students will have the chance to visit the book fair during school hours. The book fair will be open during all conference hours. Books make great gifts for birthdays and Christmas. So stop in and shop! All proceeds will go to the media center to fund special events like our author visit. Thanks for supporting our library!

Birthday Book Donation Program
January 2009
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This year we will be introducing a new fundraiser in the media center. It is called the Birthday Book Donation Program. Families donate $10 to the media center for a birthday book. When the student brings in the donation they will choose a brand new library-bound book from a large selection of new books. We will place a bookplate in the front of the book the child chooses. The book plate will have the child's name and birthday so that all the kids who check out that book will see who donated the book to the media center. The child donating the book gets to check it out first!

This year January is our Birthday Book Donation Program month. All students wanting to participate in the program will bring their donation of $10 sometime during the month of January. Notes will go home at the beginning of the month when we return from winter break. 
The Birthday Book Donation Program is meant to defray the rising costs of library bound books. Thank you for supporting our media center!

Author Visit with Jerry Palotta
April 2009
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Author Jerry Palotta will be at Crocker Elementary for a full day in mid-April. Palotta is the author of many children's books, both fiction and nonfiction. He has written a number of ABC books on a variety of topics. Students will have the opportunity to purchase Palotta's books before his visit and then have them autographed during the visit.

If you have any questions about these events please contact Mrs. Wirtz at jenny.wirtz@ankenyschools.org.

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