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While sharing her writing process and inspiration at the VAASL Potomac Region Spring Conference, Marcie Flinchum Atkins took a moment to highlight the importance of supporting local businesses—including Bookworm Central! Thank you for the kind shout out, Marcie. We’re grateful for your support and for the work you do inspiring young readers and writers.

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00:00Bookworm Central has been wonderful. It was really important to me when I moved to my school, I actually switched
00:05from another company to Bookworm.
00:08When parents pushed back, I was like, this is a local company, and we were pulling local people.
00:13And we were starting to move, and I was like, this is really important for us to be pulling local
00:16people.
00:16And also, we can, you know, we can customize our book fair.
00:21And so I, you know, always ask them, like, to read our author visit books, because sometimes our parents are
00:27like, you know, hello, the author.
00:29And then we have one, so they're like, hey, this author is coming, you know, in a couple months.
00:32Please get your child's books in and read it ahead of time. We'll have them sign them.
00:37Also, I'm able to, because of that, able to use the books and proceeds to buy our teachers a copy
00:43of the book for our author visits every single time.
00:46So that's sort of the cool bonus that we get to do that, you know, makes it really nice.
00:50And I tell parents, if they say they want to go to another online place, I say, I write on
00:55the actual paper that I sent home.
00:57If you order from Bookworm, it provides books for the classroom, if you're a child's class, to also have books.
01:03And so I can be able to convince some of them to order a book, which has been...
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