Additionally, at the conclusion of each reading club the children are given free books.
Teachers provide training to parents on how to continue the benefits of the reading club by reading to their children at home.
For instance, she says she has more than 100 reading clubs registered with the store.
They've organized summer children's groups, adult reading clubs and they recall what material the regulars prefer.
The reading club is supplemented by programs corresponding with each year's summer reading theme.
She also started a a Reading Club in 1996 for 4th and 5th graders in six schools.
A reading club designed to get listeners interested in and exposed to books they may not have been exposed to otherwise.
Ms. Abbott's store sells books to 160 reading clubs, making it a formidable selling force.
At that time a Reading Club strived in the town but later it ceased to exist.
In 2007, an online option for participating in the reading club was offered for the first time.