This previously ran in our April 2023 print issue.  The library at Emmaus High School understandably has a large amount of books, but a subject it lacks is that of foreign language — a problem that Kelly Bower is attempting to rectify. Bower,...

This previously ran in the April 2022 print issue. In November, amid heated school board elections, Joslyn Diffenbaugh watched how local Kutztown politicians weaponized literature as a means of getting elected. This controversy was enough to motivate...

You are given one day to do anything you want. With endless possibilities, you could spend the day however you chose. 10th-grader Lorelei Kilka knows exactly how she’d spend the day of her choosing: at Hogwarts.  Hogwarts sadly isn’t a real place,...

With the upcoming release of Netflix’s original series, “Shadow and Bone,” it remains to be seen if they will maintain their recent surge in popularity for book-to-screen adaptations. Adaptations of books into movies have, for a long time, been...

Kelly Bower, the Emmaus High School librarian, is starting a Reading Olympics team this school year. Reading Olympics is a club where students read and discuss books given to them on a list, and then in the spring, they compete against other high schools...

Libraries are anything but silent. They are usually quiet, a kind of quiet that’s enforced by swift hushing from the direction of the front desk whenever someone talks too loud, but they are not silent. There’s the sound of pages flipping -- slowly...

Students at Sheridan Elementary School in Allentown sometimes receive nothing for Christmas, but thanks to the Emmaus High School Key Club, each child received their own book this holiday season. The Emmaus Key Club collected almost 2,000 books...