LMS receives award, encourages reading club

The social studies department at Linwood Middle School (LMS), North Brunswick, has been recognized for a NationalAward, "Promising Practice," by the Character Education Partnership for its diversity reading program with the students and staff at Parsons Elementary School, North Brunswick.

"Reads Together" at Parsons is for eighth-grade students who attended the school are selected to read biographies on African Americans to first- and secondgraders at Parsons during Black History Month in February. The Partnership selected the program for its creative ways to help students give back to their schools and communities and for increasing tolerance. Linwood was one of 200 schools chosen nationwide and in Mexico, Puerto Rico and Brazil recognized for Promising Practice.

Linwood is encouraging students in grades six through eight to join the North Brunswick Public Library teen summer reading program now under way. Students are eligible to win prizes by filling out a raffle ticket for each book read. If the total number of books read during July and August is more than 500, Pete Clark, LMS principal, will read from 6 p.m. to midnight on the roof of the school during the first week of September.

For more information, visit www.northbrunswicklibrary. org/teens/htm.