Mrs. Trovato- Library

Birthday Book Club

 Dear Parent, 
  
Below is a sample of the letter you will be recieving the month before your 
child's birthday, explaining how the Birthday Book Club works.



St. Augustine Birthday Book Club



Dear Parent,


Your child’s birthday is quickly approaching. In celebration of this 
occasion, the Birthday Book Club, with your help, will add a book to the 
school library in your child’s honor. A bookplate will be placed in the book 
with your child’s name, birth date, and grade. A color photo is also 
available to children in grades K-5. If you want your 6th, 7th, or 8th 
grader’s photo to be taken, please state so below. You may either donate a 
hardcover book ( see attached sheet for suggestions for each grade) or you 
may make a donation and an age-appropriate book will be available in the 
library for your child to choose.

Sincerely,

Mercedes Guiance
Beth Anne Maresca 

Birthday Book Club Co-Chairs


Please fill out and return to school office. Attach a hardcover book, or a 
check made out to St. Augustine School Guild.

Child’s Name_____________________________________________________
(as it will appear in the book)

Room #______________   Date of Birth________________________________

Indicate if you are providing a book( place slip in book)__________________

Donation   (   ) $15.00           (     )  $20.00         (     ) Other

Please take a photo of my 6th, 7th, or 8th grader__________________________-

   

                             Birthday Book Club Suggestions


Dear Parent,

In an effort to improve our fiction and non-fiction collection  to better 
meet the needs of our curriculum , we are asking that parents who wish to 
send in a book for the Birthday Book Club please choose from the following 
categories:


Kindergarten- First Grade:  Caldecott Award and Honor Books (please check 
with me first, we are only missing a few titles). Holiday books: Halloween, 
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine Day, Ground Hog Day, Easter, Memorial 
Day, and Independence Day .

2nd Grade: Biographies, Plants, Animals, Animal Habitats, Weather and 
Climate, Magnets, Heat, Light and Electricity.

3rd Grade: Science: Natural Phenomena, Earthquakes, Floods, Volcanoes, 
Hurricanes, and Tornados.

4th Grade: Solar System, Plant Classification and function of parts of 
flowers, forces that change the earth’s surface.

5th Grade: Inventions, Ecosystems, Plant and Animal cells and their 
functions.

6th Grade: Newbury Award and Honor Books, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction.

7th Grade: Westward Expansion, Civil War, Slavery, Industrial Revolution.

8th Grade:  Great Depression, World War I and II, Holocaust. 

Thank you,
Diane Trovato 
St. Augustine School Librarian