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,...

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...

Every Monday morning, Kathee Rhode pulls into the empty parking lot of the Lower Macungie Library. She unlocks the door, turns on the lights, and sweeps through the desolate library — she waters a few plants, and prepares herself to answer some...

The East Penn School District’s 1-to-1 initiative, currently supplying every secondary school student with Chromebooks, requires students to have internet access at home in order to complete assigned work.  Following a December 2018 BrightBytes...

Following the end of WWII, the baby boom pummeled the 50s and 60s. But in 1975, the nation saw another increase in population, the birth of pet rocks. The Pet Rock, founded by Gary Dahl, a freelance copy editor, dominated every 1975 kids wish lists...

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...