MHS Librarian Honored by NJ Center for the Book
Millburn High School's librarian, LaDawna Harrington, receives the 2012 Miss Rumphius Award for her unique program in the district.
To really understand why someone receives the Miss Rumphius Award you have to know the story of a picture book it's named after, according the most recent recipient of the award. 'Miss Rumphius', by Barbara Cooney, tells the story of a character that spreads seeds to make the world a more beautiful place, just as librarians do for students. This year's award was given to Millburn's own high school's librarian, LaDawna Harrington, for a unique program she established for ninth-graders and fifth-graders, Stories by the Young: Storytelling Across Grade Levels. In the program, a fifth-grade class at Glenwood wrote original stories to give to a high school freshman class for editing. "All of this was a year long process that integrated the …
