Welcome to the South Hillsborough School Library, your portal to a world full of imagination, discovery, and learning. Our library offers a growing collection of over 17,000 books, cozy reading spaces, and resources to inspire curiosity and a lifelong love of reading. Whether you're jumping into an exciting adventure, learning new facts, or enjoying a beautiful picture book, we are here to support your journey and help you explore all the wonders the world of books has to offer. Come in and let the magic of books take you to new, exciting places!
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Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
10/2- TK-3rd Grade Author Visit, Joanna Ho @10:30am
10/15- Reading Tigers (grades 2-3)
10/16- Reading Tigers (grades 4-5)
10/31- Great Pumpkin Decorating Contest
12/2 to 12/9- Winter Book Fair
12/2- Book Fair Lunch Preview Day
12/9- Festive Family Night @5pm (Book Fair, Gingerbread Houses *pre-order*, Hot Chocolate)
Students In grades 2-5 are Invited to join our award-winning lunchtime book club. Reading Tigers will meet in small, parent-led groups (of 4-7 students) to discuss the books and engage in fun, book-related activities. Participating students are expected to finish reading the assigned book before each meeting. For students still developing fluency, we encourage parents to read the books aloud or share the reading together. Before each meeting 15-25 copies of the featured books will be available for checkout In the library. Parents are welcome to sign up their children online and 3rd-5th grade students will also be able to sign up during their library visits. Interested in leading a group? We would love your help! For more information about dates and book titles, click HERE.
Thanks to the generosity of South parents, new books are added to the South Library each month through the Judy Goetzel Birthday Book Club. With your donation, your child has the pleasure of choosing a new book from our special birthday collection and being the first to check it out. Each book includes a beautiful book label on the inside cover, celebrating your donation and your child's special day. Please consider joining to help us grow our library collection with exciting new titles for all students to enjoy. Click HERE to see the latest books added to the South Library through our birthday book club.
Hillsborough's Battle of the Books is a friendly, but competitive, trivia competition based on books in several different genres. In 2024 this program won the Kent Award from San Mateo County. Teams may have 2, 3, or 4 members; all members must be 4th or 5th grade from the same school. Teams have from May 2025 to March 2026 to become familiar with 10 titles in a variety of genres. The three rounds of the Battle will take place in March 2026, and the two winning teams from each school will compete in the district-wide finals at West School on Tuesday, 3/24/26 at 6:00pm. The first two rounds are open book, but the finals will be closed book. For more information, click HERE.
If your child Is looking for some fun new books to read, or If you'd like to read a variety of picture books with your younger child, join our reading challenge! Students have a year to read a variety of books (selected from the hundreds of books I've read). The number and types of books vary by grade level, and all students who complete the challenge (and turn in their answers by Friday, April 17th, 2026,) will receive school-wide recognition, be invited to a special movie night in the library, and receive a cool reading t-shirt designed by a South student.
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