Attention Young Beachcombers: Barnes & Noble Kicks Off Its Summer Reading Program: a Day At the Beach; Read Eight Books and Get One Free!NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 1999-- Learning doesn't stop during the summer vacation Summer vacation (also called summer holidays or summer break) is a vacation in the summertime between school years in which students are off for 3 months, depending on the country and district. . Education experts agree that kids can lose as much as 60 percent of what they learn during the school year, if they don't read over the summer. Now in its third year, the Summer Reading: A Day at the Beach program offers activities that will keep elementary school elementary school: see school. kids excited about reading over the summer months. The program also rewards students who read eight books by offering them a free book. To participate, students in grades one through six pick up a "Summer Reading Beach Journal" at any Barnes & Noble bookstore. Then, they simply read eight books of their choice and write about their favorite part of each book in their Beach Journal. A parent or guardian signs the journal for each book that is read. After the eight books have been read, the Beach Journal should be brought to any Barnes & Noble bookstore from now until September Until September is a 1984 romantic drama set in France. It stars Karen Allen as an American tourist in Paris who falls in love with a married Frenchman (Thierry Lhermitte). External links 10, 1999. A Barnes & Noble bookseller will present the student with a coupon for a free book to be selected from a designated list of more than 25 outstanding paperback titles. About Barnes & Noble: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BKS BKS Barracks BKS Best Kept Secret (gaming) BKS Bildung, Kultur Und Sport (German) BKS Brookside (city) BKS Bergen Kirurgiske Sykehus (Bergen, Norway) ) operates 521 Barnes & Noble and 466 B. Dalton bookstores. Barnes & Noble stores stock an authoritative selection of book titles and provide access to more than one million titles. They offer books from more than 50,000 publisher imprints with an emphasis on small, independent publishers and university presses. Barnes & Noble is one of the world's largest booksellers on the World Wide Web (http://www.bn.com), and the exclusive bookseller on America Online See AOL. (Keyword: bn). barnesandnoble.com has the largest standing inventory of any online bookseller. Barnes & Noble also publishes books under its own imprint for exclusive sale through its retail stores, mail-order catalogs, and Web site. General financial information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Web site: http://www.shareholder.com/bks/. |
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