PORT HUENEME : Book Sale Scheduled for School Library

A copy of the classic children’s story “Boxcar Children” will be on sale Wednesday at Hueneme Elementary School.

So will “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs,” which retells the tale from the wolf’s point of view.

Those children’s stories, along with dictionaries and other reference books, will be sold in a drive to raise money for new library books.

Officials with the school and the Parent-Teacher Assn., which has spearheaded the fund-raising effort, say new books are desperately needed because many of the library’s 5,500 volumes are decades old.

“Some of these books I recognize from when I was in elementary school in New Mexico in 1950,” said Marian Romero, a Hueneme reading specialist.

With funds to buy books in short supply, PTA volunteers decided to sell some of the library’s surplus volumes, Romero said.

She feels the need to buy new reading material for Hueneme students should not be minimized.

“Kids need to be exposed to literature and to read an exciting story,” Romero said.

Most paperback books available at the book fair will cost between $1.50 and $5, with hardback books, including dictionaries and other reference books, priced at $4.95 each, Romero said.

The book fair will run through Friday in Room 8 at the school, 354 N. 3rd St., Port Hueneme.

Sale hours are 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

For more information, call the school at 385-2667.