{"id":15569,"date":"2016-10-02T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=15569"},"modified":"2016-09-27T16:38:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:38:39","slug":"20162017-battle-of-the-books-collections-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/20162017-battle-of-the-books-collections-delivered\/","title":{"rendered":"2016\/2017 Battle of the Books Collections Delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Grover-Hill-Battle-of-Books-Arrival-2016.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15570\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Grover-Hill-Battle-of-Books-Arrival-2016.jpg?resize=666%2C383\" alt=\"grover-hill-battle-of-books-arrival-2016\" width=\"666\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Battle of the Books collections have been delivered to each county school and branch library for the 2016\/2017 competition. \u201cWe are excited by this year\u2019s selections,\u201d stated Sara Molitor, Head of Youth Services. \u201cThere is something for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For over twenty years, the Paulding County Carnegie Library (PCCL) has sponsored and coordinated a county-wide reading competition called Battle of the Books. Fifth and sixth grade teams made up of up to six students, read fifty books and are then quizzed during a competition first at the school level and then at the county level for the championship. Each school library receives up to twenty-five new books each year. Due to the generous donations from Lafarge Corp and area professionals, the cost of the books is covered as well as t-shirts and medals Schools participating have included: Antwerp Elementary, Divine Mercy Catholic School, Grover Hill Elementary, Oakwood Elementary, Payne Elementary, and Paulding Elementary. Home-schooled students have also formed winning teams.<\/p>\n<p>The objectives of the program are to:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Promote leisure reading<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Provide an opportunity for students to read books about a variety of subjects<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Prepare students with the skills to help them critique and appreciate good literature<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Develop reading comprehension and retention<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Enhance feeling of accomplishment through literary competition<\/p>\n<p>To see the 2016\/2017 list and read more about the competition, visit the library\u2019s website at www.pauldingcountylibrary.org and click on the Children\u2019s link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Battle of the Books collections have been delivered to each county school and branch library for the 2016\/2017 competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2301,7],"tags":[4924,5414,4726,69,3425,604,5246,5269,119,818],"class_list":["post-15569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","category-school","tag-battle","tag-battle-of-the-books","tag-books","tag-elementary","tag-grover-hill-elementary","tag-of","tag-paulding-county-carnegie-library","tag-pccl","tag-reading","tag-the"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-437","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 06:14:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}