Media Center to Host Family Reading Night at OLCHS

Oak Lawn Community High School Media Center will host its first-ever Family Reading Night on November 21, 2013, 7:00-8:00pm.  The event will be an evening book club for students, parents, staff, and the community (all members of the "Spartan Family!").  There will be discussion and activities based around the popular novel The Fault in Our Stars by award-winning author John Green.  The book is an insightful, ambitious, and heartbreaking story which explores the funny/tragic business of being alive and in love.  It’s a rare bestseller aimed at teens and adults.   

Family Reading Night is in conjunction with Illinois Reads, a new statewide campaign to promote reading for all Illinois citizens created under the auspices of the Illinois Reading Council.  Illinois Reads focuses on reading at school, as well as at home.  Residents across the state from Rockford to Carbondale will be partaking in upcoming family literacy nights.  The culmination event is a statewide celebration of literacy on the same evening as the book club. 

All book club participants must register at www.olchs.org. 

A limited number of event T-shirts will also be on sale that evening or beforehand for $10.  Proceeds go to the Media Center activity account.  Please contact media specialists Eileen Jones at ejones@olchs.org or Jennifer Sidlow at jsidlow@olchs.org for more information.