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Sandown North details ‘One School, One Book’ program that gave every student a copy and boosted community engagement
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Sandown North staff on Thursday described a year‑long “One School, One Book” program that gave every student and staff member a copy of the same novel and used community partners, in‑school activities and weekly trivia to extend reading beyond classrooms.
Sandown North staff on Thursday described a year‑long “One School, One Book” program that gave every student and staff member a copy of the same novel and used community partners, in‑school activities and weekly trivia to extend reading beyond classrooms.
At a Timberlane Regional School District school board meeting, Lauren Asick, principal at Sandown North, said the program distributed books to every student and to all adults in the building — “from the bus driver to the cafeteria staff and custodians” — and intentionally linked the school to local businesses so families could pick up raffle tickets by answering trivia questions about the book.
Asick said organizers chose the sequel to The Wild Robot after the movie adaptation was released Sept. 27 and…
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