I’ve never asked one of our librarians just how many books any one person is allowed to check out.
I do have a good record with the library. I almost always turn in my books on time, or renew them, and then turn them in on time. And, when I am tardy with returning a book, I always pay my fines.
At present, I have seventeen books checked out. Yep. Seventeen.
It’s those girls that I read with at the elementary school where members from my church volunteer. The Fifth Grader is almost finished with a book about Venus and Serena Williams. We should finish it next week.
The Fourth Grader really wants to read books like the one the Fifth Grader is reading. But that Fourth Grader is a very poor reader. She’s very interested in the harder books, but, even with easier books, she usually needs help with many of the words. Actually, it’s most of the words.
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- This is the book that the Fifth grader is reading. We should finish it next week.
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- Here are some of the books that she can choose from for her next read..
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- This is a book that the Fourth Grader wants to read. Basically, I’m reading the book to her. She recognizes a few of the words, but not many. But, she’s very interested in the story. So we’re reading it.
I’ve looked at the library’s holdings, and I’ve found several books about Rosa Parks that seem to be very easy reads. I wonder how many more books I can check out.
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- Also popular with the Fourth Grader: Pete the Cat. I found SEVERAL books. And, this pile that I found is only a fraction of the Pete books that are on the shelves.
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- Pete is pretty easy to read. I think that she will be able to manage most of the words.
So we can read a few pages of Pete, and some, or all the pages in the easier Rosa Parks books I’ve seen on the library’s list. She really does want to read. And I really want her to read, too.
Recently, I was talking with another church member who has a group of three Fifth Grade boys that he reads with. He said that he’d been reading with them since they were First Graders. And I said that I’d been reading with my Fifth Grader since she was a First Grader, too. Of course, we’d missed their Fourth Grade year with the pandemic-related issues. But we’ve been part of their lives all these years.
We often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don’t know what to do, we never give up.
2 Corinthians 4:8 (Contemporary English Version)
O may all who come behind us find us faithful, May the fire of our devotion light their way.
May the footprints that we leave, lead them to believe, And the lives we live inspire them to obey.
O may all who come behind us find us faithful.
Steve Green