Reading is Magical!

 By Carmen Abdul-Hadi / Middle School Librarian

“Fairy tales are more than true. Not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.”-Neil Gaiman

This is what this year is all about…              

We’re physically distanced…. but closer to each others’ hearts more than ever. We’re facing challenge after challenge…but we adjust. We overcome!

And this is how Harry Potter found his way to the Middle School library…Harry Potter and his lessons about friendship, bravery, loyalty, believing in yourself, facing your fears.

Hermione was going to the library whenever in doubt. She found the magic of knowledge there.

The library books helped Harry, Ron, and Hermione in their quests. Because libraries are the best!

Books in the imaginary world of the Harry Potter series are magical and sometimes protected by spells.

In our “muggle” world, books are still magical…either on the library’s physical shelves or on the virtual site.

Your librarian is not Madame Pince, the unapproachable Hogwarts librarian, but a friend ready to help you discover the wonderful world hiding between the pages of a book.

Books can be your friends…. your magic portal to take you places when you have to stay where you are..answers to your many questions. Books are joy! Books fight ignorance! Books can open new perspectives over world and life! Books will set your spirit free! All you have to do is find the ONE book to get you started!

It is said: 'There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.'

Email me and let’s see which that book is!

And don’t forget that no matter how difficult, dark and dangerous things get, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Or even in the tunnel itself.

“But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light.”( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) *