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Mason Lawrence as Smartie Pants on “Dress as an Idiom Day”

What is your favorite idiom? Or has the cat got your tongue? That was one of the questions asked during Literacy Week at Jenks Academy for the Arts and Sciences, which kicked off National Reading Month on March 1. more

by Emily Plowman, Friends of Jenks for The Local | 3/18/21

Maddie Megargee and Anna Kane next to the new mural at Hilltop Book. (photo by Hannah Lebowitz-Lockard)

Local women paint mural in Hilltop’s children’s book room

What benefits does a book provide that an e-book does not? Why, for example, have the Friends provided a room full of children’s books for sale at Hilltop Books, their new store at 84 Bethlehem Pike? more

by Stan Cutler | 3/18/21

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