Volunteers sought for Decorah Reads!

Coordinators of the Decorah Reads! program are seeking 15 volunteers for a March session. Decorah Reads! is a partnership between Decorah Public Library and Kris Lynch's 7th grade exploratory reading class. The program matches adult volunteers with 7th grade students for three book discussion meetings. Volunteers make a commitment to attend all three meetings in the chosen session.

Students choose a fiction book to read and adult volunteers find their student match by selecting a book from the students' list of titles. As a pair, the volunteer and student both read the book and meet three times to discuss it.

Through the Decorah Reads! program students learn about discussing a book with another person and they also receive encouragement from their adult partner. Adult volunteers have the opportunity to revisit childhood favorites, experience what is currently popular in young adult fiction, and to nourish their partners' enjoyment of reading.

For the March session, adults may pick books up at the Decorah Public Library beginning Tuesday March 1. Meeting dates include Tuesday March 8, Tuesday March 15, and Tuesday March 22. The first two meetings will be held at Decorah Public Library from 8:55-9:20 a.m. The final meeting (complete with breakfast treats) will take place from 8:55-9:30 a.m. at Decorah Middle School.

Please call Decorah Public Library at 563-382-3717 for more information or to sign up as a volunteer.