The Community That Reads Together

Communities across the country join in Community Reading Day, and Northborough has taken part for more than 20 years.

Northborough students in grades K-8 were all given a reading by local readers that included business people, the superintendent, school committee members, municipal workers, journalists, pastors, members of the Northborough Rotary and dozens of others.

Northborough Patch joined in the action, too, reading The Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth to a sixth grade class at the . The 8th graders got to hear The Hunger Games, which might have been a little bit easier to deliver.  

Each book was signed by the reader and donated to the library.

"The nice thing is this was paid for by grants," said Melican librarian Jan Bisset.

Margie Hurwitz, ELL tutor at the , coordinated the Northborough effort.