✉️ To Parents
This week's nonfiction story introduces children to a real community bookstore where money isn't used—books are shared and passed on. The article promotes ideas of literacy, giving, and community building. Language targets include present perfect, passive voice, and real-life vocabulary related to books, sharing, and kindness.
📖 Today's Reading
In a quiet corner of the city, there is a bookstore that doesn't sell books.
You can't buy anything there—not with cash or cards. Instead, you bring a book and take one in return.It's called The Free Book Nook, and it was started by a group of students who wanted to make reading easier for everyone.
Over the past year, more than 2,000 books have been given, taken, and shared again. Some books are wrapped with little notes like, “This story helped me smile,” or “I hope this book finds a good friend.”
Gigi, one of the youngest visitors, said, “It feels like treasure hunting. I never know what I'll find.”
Eva sometimes leaves her favorite dance books, and Isaac donates sports magazines. Even grandparents visit to donate old storybooks.
The shelves are filled with stories that travel from hand to hand, changing readers along the way.
One wall says in colorful paint:
“Take a book, leave a book, grow a reader.”
🧠 New Vocabularies
- donate /ˈdoʊ.neɪt/ – She donated her old books to the shop.
- shelf /ʃɛlf/ – The shelf was full of picture books and comics.
- wrapped /ræpt/ – Some books were wrapped in colorful paper.
- treasure /ˈtrɛʒ.ɚ/ – Finding a great book feels like finding treasure.
- passive voice /ˈpæs.ɪv/ – The books are given, shared, and taken.
- community /kəˈmju.nə.ti/ – The bookstore brings the community together.
✍️ Hi, Kids!
Imagine a place in your town where you can share and discover books for free.
What kind of books would you bring? What message would you leave inside one? Start your writing like this: “At the free book corner, I brought...”
Describe how this kind of sharing could change someone’s day—or yours!
