Educators being vaccinated start to see the beginning of the end of the pandemic Lily Altavena, Arizona Republic
In the 10 months since children left Shirley McCauley s library for the last time, the longtime librarian acquired a new favorite book: I Really Want the Cake . I haven t been able to read it to the kids yet, she said, thumbing through the pink paperback s pages in an empty school library, a Band-Aid stuck to her right arm.
McCauley, a librarian in the Hayden-Winkelman Unified School District in eastern Arizona, has been busy the past 10 months. She hasn t acquired just one new book but more than 500 in an effort to build a new library for the district s elementary schoolers when they return.