The Maine Book Fest in downtown Waterville celebrates all books

Weekend festival offered a book fair and market, book talks, writing events and more.

Mt. Blue school district literacy audit presentation reveals loyal staff, area of improvement

Carrie Thurston of CSS Consulting called RSU 9 teaching staff "a very loyal group of educators who like being here" in her literacy audit at the RSU 9 board of directors meeting on Tuesday, May 14.

Literacy Volunteers-Androscoggin’s Scrabble Fest set for April 28

It’s ‘Read Across America’ week in Oxford Hills

Students across the school district are spending this week celebrating books and reading.

Lewiston elementary school program rewards students’ kind deeds with books

Over the past few months, dozens of students at Geiger Elementary School have received books from the school's new vending machine as a reward for being kind to others.

Photo: An old fashioned library

The director of Freeland Holmes Library in Oxford logs new books by hand.

Augusta StoryWalk provides place for kids to exercise body and mind

Walkers can read a children's story as they traverse a trail through the woods between Eastern Avenue and Cony Street in Augusta. Officials unveiled the installation this week.

Bookworms gather for 12-hour Read-a-Thon

The Read-a-Thon was held to raise money for Backroads Books, which will bring free children's books to remote areas in Franklin County.

Read-a-thon to be held in Farmington for mobile kids’ library

The fundraiser will directly support Backroad Books – a mobile library Twice Sold Tales owner Amber Stone is building to bring a library and free children's books to the rural areas of Franklin County with "book deserts."

Literacy Volunteers to host 20th annual Letters for Literacy Scrabble Fest