Dear 276 Families,

Summer is just around the corner, and it is the perfect time to arm our students with their personal super heroes - Books! At our Spring 2026 Book Fair, we will celebrate how these powerful companions can teach us, unveil new perspectives, lift our spirits, and become steadfast friends. Your student(s) can find their next literary superhero whether it's a thrilling read-aloud, an under-the-bed-sheets page-turner, or a beach tugalong. Here are important details regarding the fair.

Please, read carefully the information below:

• Book Fair Schedule 5/15-5/22
  When can you and your children visit the fair?
  (All families and all grades are welcome! As well as all the siblings, grandparents, neighbors, cousins, ...)

  • During your child’s class visit to browse and shop with them. 

  • Before-school (starting 8:00 a.m.) Monday through Friday. 

  • After-dismissal open until: 

    • 4:00 p.m. on Friday 5/15 and Tuesday 5/19

    • 6:00 p.m. on Monday 5/18 and Thursday 5/21

    • 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday 5/20 (Half Day)

  • Additionally, anyone can visit the fair during the periods marked “Open Shopping to All.” 

  • The book ends on Friday 5/22 at 12:30 p.m. 

  • 3K and PreK families are welcome to visit the fair with their children before-school and after the dismissal or on their own during the “Open Shopping to All” periods.

• Please Volunteer during the Fair, Setup, and Pack-up!

  • The fair is possible only with the help of volunteers!

  • Add your name to the slots when you can assist with the event. 

  • It’s best to volunteer at other times than your child’s class visit. You want to give your children full attention.

  • Please, consider after school slots - Sometimes I am all alone in the late afternoon.

• Scholastic Book Fair Website provides access to:

• Online shopping (it continues after the physical fair is over for an additional week)

• eWallet registration (see more about it below). 

• eWallet

  • It’s a digital, cash-free, and secure payment option. (Learn more about eWallets)

  • You can pre-authorize a specific dollar amount online that can be checked and used at the cash registers. 

  • If a student does not use the whole balance on the eWallet, it can be spent at future fairs, Scholastic Book Clubs or anytime at the Scholastic Online Store. 

  • Funds from old eWallets can be transferred to the current fair’s wallet.

  • You may set up an eWallet at the book fair’s website. 

  • Teachers are encouraged to set up their own eWallets for the class libraries. Check with your teachers if they have an eWallet you could contribute toward. 

• Contribute to the Share the Fair Fund - If you can, please consider donating to the fund. Your contribution helps ensure that every child can take home a book from the Fair.

• Teachers’ Classroom Wishlists - Teachers will put together lists of books that they wish to add to the classroom libraries. Please, consider purchasing books for the classrooms (the lists will be available at the book fair). Don’t forget about the specials’ teachers and related support providers! Alternatively, you may contribute to a teacher’s class eWallet if one is set up by your child’s classroom teacher(s).

Looking forward to seeing you all at the book fair!

Yours,

Basia Tov | she/her

Librarian

Library and Fab Lab at PS/IS 276 Battery Park City School

Masters in Library and Information Science

Masters in Early Childhood General and Special Education

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276 Library Mission

If we look closely at the natural world, we see there is no one way of being. Diversity is not only beautiful and inspiring, but it is also necessary.  It is necessary in the natural ecosystem as well as in the human-made one. Not only is it essential to our and the planet’s physical health, but it is also essential for healthy minds and societies. If we believe there is only one right way to be, think, look, love, or solve problems, we create unjust societies, prejudice, and inequality. By keeping our minds open, flexible, and inquisitive, we see a world of possibilities, we see the world as it is, and at the same time, we allow others to fully access these possibilities.

In the library, we seek views, perspectives, knowledge, understandings, emotions, and realities of the world. In the space for our makers, we seek knowledge, experiences, understandings, skills, problems, and solutions that undermine the idea that there is only one way to make something, one way of thinking about a problem or solution. We embrace the ambiguity and complexity of our world with ingenuity and boldness.

As we acquire knowledge, skills, and new understandings through the library programs, our minds are more flexible and ready for the discomfort and work required to see the world as it is, and to live joyfully within it as just, creative, and problem-solving human beings.

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• This website!

• btov@schools.nyc.gov

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