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<br />New Hope Elementary students receive <br />‘Books on Break’ <br /> The Family Success Alliance <br /> Updated Jun 11, 2016 <br />HILLSBOROUGH — Approximately 650 elementary school students at New Hope <br />Elementary School were able to select six to 10 books each to enjoy over their summer <br />vacation thanks to the Books on Break program. <br />Students gathered at the elementary school in Hillsborough on June 6 and 7 to work <br />with staff members and volunteers from Orange County Schools, the Orange County <br />Public Library, Friends of the Orange County Public Library, New Hope Elementary and <br />the Family Success Alliance to help them select books. <br />Students were encouraged to select books of interest, not just reading level, to provide <br />many opportunities for reading over the summer, when a large number of kids <br />experience “summer slide” due to lack of educational engagement. <br />Inequity is one of the main reasons the Family Success Alliance is partnering with the <br />Friends of the Orange County Public Library, the Orange County Public Library, Book <br />Harvest and the Orange County Schools to ensure kindergarten and first -grade <br />students receive books to help keep them engaged during the summer months. <br />“This is just so powerful. The partnership and working together has been amazing and <br />inspiring” said Lori-Anne Shapiro, Chair of the Orange County Friends of the Library, in <br />a statement. “We are so pleased to not only have been able to contribute more than <br />$5,000 to purchase books for the kids, but also getting to work side -by-side with the <br />school throughout the process.”