Literacy push: L.A. libraries allow young people to read away their fines
Twelve-year-old Sergio Garay, a sixth grader at Griffith STEAM Magnet Middle School, loves going to his local branch library in East Los Angeles. In fact, he loves the library so much he reads and studies there almost every day after school.
But recently, Sergio was in danger of losing his library privileges: He’d been reading “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days,” a popular page-turner for preteens, “and I forgot it at school one day.”
He’d stowed the book in its proper place, he says, “and then it disappeared. A lot of people steal other kids' books.”
The cost of replacing that book was
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