Comment by WillAdams

Are Scholastic book orders no longer a thing for children?

When my father retired from the service, he moved to the second poorest county in Virginia in terms of tax base, and the library at that time was a carrel of used paperbacks in the courthouse of the old library --- for each Scholastic book order, my teacher would open the box, remove a couple of books for other students, then hand me the box (she would also remove the promotional poster for the classroom, even though it was always my order which qualified for it).

Things got better when I got to high school, since that library was somewhat better stocked (in particular, a cousin of Andre Norton's lived in the county, received books from her, and then donated them to the library, which I will eternally be grateful of).

Fortunately, since then, the county has managed to build and stock an actual library building.

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” ― Anne Herbert