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ACT Study Sessions Learn some tips and strategies to increase your ACT score in the first 30 minutes of the class. Then learn where you can access free online practice tests. For the remaining 2 1/2 hours, there will be tutors available on Zoom to answer any specific questions you have as you take the practice test. February 27, 11 am- 2 pm March 4, 6 pm - 9 pm March 6, 11 am - 2 pm
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1000 Books Before Kindergarten Research shows that reading books and sharing stories with your child is one of the best ways to help him or her enter school with the language skills they need to be ready to learn and grow. Read 1,000 books to your child before starting kindergarten. Believe it or not, that's only 4 books per week for 5 years! Track your reading and earn prizes along the way. To get started pick up a tracking sheet from the American Fork Library Children's Desk.
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Well-Read Reading Logs We challenge you to read 50 books in 2021! Be a part of our annual reading program (newly renamed as Well-Read). Pick up your reading log at the Library Main Desk, read 50 books this year, and then join us next January for a dinner celebrating your accomplishment.
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Library Programs Registration We use Eventbrite for nearly all of our programs that require registration. If you visit aflibrary.eventbrite.com, you can see all the events we have that would need registration. Click on the "FOLLOW" button, create an account, and you can hear about new events right away!
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Black Buck
by Mateo Askaripour
An unambitious college graduate accepts a job at Sumwun, the hottest NYC startup, and reimagines himself as “Buck” a ruthless salesman and begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America’s sales force.
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March. Book Three
by John Lewis
A first-hand graphic novel account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights continues to cover his involvement in the Freedom Vote and Mississippi Freedom Summer campaigns, and the Selma to Montgomery march.
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The Little Mermaid
by Jerry Pinkney
In this reinvention of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, a little mermaid trades her voice for legs and makes a new friend on land, but must return to the sea to save her family.
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February's Reading Prompts
*Read a book by a BIPOC author (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) OR *Read a book that makes you smile Read one of the monthly reading prompts and enter our quarterly drawing for an Amazon gift card! Entries accepted by commenting on our social media posts about the prompts.
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Josh Barton - Works as our Horizon Systems Administrator and helps patrons at the circulation desk
- Has worked at the American Fork Library for 7.5 years
- Favorite food is ice cream
- Favorite book series to read is the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
- Recommends Neurotribes by Steve Silberman
- "I think the learning center is great! I really enjoyed my time as a tutor there, and it helps a lot of children with reading and with their schoolwork."
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