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As August starts to sundown into September and the back to school season kicks into high gear, it’s time for librarians and educators to turn our attention to the great mission before us: engaging young readers. The voracious readers are easy, but how do you encourage the more reluctant ones? Or how do you support the regular readers by fostering their love of the written word?

One of the best ways to capture the attention of readers of all levels and interests is by continually providing them more new content. This isn’t just a job of school librarians. The public library serves an equally important role in the development of the community’s children. Of course, we here at OverDrive are aware that there are always budget concerns to keep in mind and for that reason we’re excited to share with you some of the awesome things happening in our Back to School sale, which runs through the end of September.

If one of the obstacles you find is that the kids and teens you work with don’t want to read a book, consider encouraging them to give audiobooks a try or even a comic or graphic novel. For younger audiences there is a fantastic collection of Narrated eBooks which mom and dad will surely appreciate as it means they won’t have to be the one to read the same book over and over again each night before bed time. This is also a chance to build your collection to meet the needs of community language speaking kids and to that end we have a Spanish Language list as well as Asian Content titles.

For school librarians, consider seeing this as an opportunity to support the faculty and staff at your school thanks to the Teacher Essentials list which is full of professional development tools. We’ve also curated lists of STEM titles as well as Classroom Essentials and Novel Sets.

Our Back to School sale features over 30,000 titles across multiple platforms and publishers with savings up to 50% off. Also, don’t let the Back to School moniker stop you from really digging into the deals as there is a collection of fiction and non-fiction Adult titles on sale and our Australian partners, currently in the middle of their winter season, can stock up on Kids & Teen titles.

Happy shopping!

 

Jill Grunenwald is a Collection Development Analyst with OverDrive