Friday Favorites: April 4
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It’s springtime and for me that means school-run book fairs. There are lots around and they offer neat ways to buy some books and help a local school — you see the parents run these fairs and get a percentage from the sales to use towards some school project.
In Brewster where this week there is a book fair at C.V. Starr Intermediate School, I hear the big seller was a bit unexpected. It was “Swindle,” by Gordon Korman — about a boy who inherits a box of stuff from grandfather and inside is a $1 million baseball card. Someone cons him out this valuable card and the story focuses on how main character Griffin Bing works to get that card back. Both boys and girls have been buying up this book in such numbers that those in charge of the Brewster book fair kept running out and had to place emergency orders with Scholastic Book Fairs to replenish the supply.
For those who loved the book, catch a video interview with the author at Scholastic Books’ Web site where he talks about his own time in seventh grade.
Another big seller at the book fair has been “Dairy of a Wimpy Kid” by Jeff Kinney. The print books are based on the online versions. Book one, “Dairy” was a bestseller followed this February by “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules.” The third book, subtitled “The Last Straw,” is expected this year.
Happy reading and happy weekend.
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A municipal reporter for The Journal News since 1997, 
