Family Reading Celebration!
It will be out of this world!
April 1, 2025
5:30-7:30pm
at Valley View Elementary
There will also be A Rover's Story trivia with prizes for families to win. We hope you can join us!
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Rover's Story Introduction.MOVSend a picture of your family reading A Rover's Story to skuhn@yssd.org and we will add it to our photo gallery!
Starting on March 3, 2025, families from Valley View and Indian Rock Elementary Schools will kick off our fifth year in a row of community wide reading with A Rover's Story by Jasmine Warga.
Follow the reading calendar on this website to keep up with the reading.
Click on each week for discussion questions, read alouds by YS staff members, activities to participate in and weekly chances to enter a drawing to win a prize!
Meet the Author-Jasmine Warga
https://jasminewarga.com/about
I was born on April 24, 1988 at 11:59 PM in Cincinnati, Ohio. This means that I am a Taurus if you are into astrology and star stuff, which I most definitely am. Also, like all other people from Cincinnati, I am inordinately proud of my little Midwestern city and think that Graeter’s black raspberry chip ice cream is the most delicious food in the whole world. (I’m really into a baby hippo named Fiona, too. She makes her home at the Cincinnati Zoo.)
Growing up, I loved to read. When I was younger, I read about every book I could get my hands on. Some of my favorites were Charlotte’s Web, The Witches, and Anne of Green Gables. I read The Bridge to Terabithia when I was in fourth grade, and it is the first book I remember reading by myself that made me cry. In middle school, we read books by Sharon Draper and Margaret Peterson Haddix, and I fell in love with their stories. I wanted to live in the world of Ella Enchanted, and I couldn’t stop thinking about The Giver. In high school, I was introduced to the work of Virginia Woolf and my brain exploded. I also fell hard and fast for the poetry of Adrienne Rich and Anne Sexton. In college, I discovered Zadie Smith and Sandra Cisneros and reading their brilliant writing made my own desire to tell stories feel possible in a way it hadn’t before.
I went to college with the intention of getting a degree in something “practical” (because I wanted to make my parents happy), but I ended up graduating with a degree in Art History and History (which if you really think about it was just a roundabout way for me to study the structure of story and how stories are told.) After graduation, I found a job teaching 6th grade science (I know, right?) to a bunch of smart and challenging students in Texas. While teaching, I started to try my hand at writing my own stories. Lots of false starts and messy drafts later, here we are. I feel extremely lucky as all I’ve ever wanted to do is tell stories.
These days, I live in the Chicago area with my family in a house full of books. My current favorite things are neighborhood walks, buttery popcorn, foggy mornings, dark chocolate-covered pretzels, and flowering trees.
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