Lacey Loves to Read
Lacey Loves to Read is a community reading initiative designed to encourage our area students to become lifelong readers and learners. Activities include a district-wide bookmark creation contest, short story writing events, and more. A notable children's author visits each year to share insights on writing and reading and foster a culture of reading in our school community. Follow us on Facebook!
Bookmark Contest
The Bookmark Contest is on! Design a bookmark and enter to win prizes and more!
Entry Deadline:
November 6, 2026
Entry guidelines and information
Community Event
Thursday, February 11
6:00–8:00 pm
Koval Center for the Performing Arts
This FREE community event features a presentation by our featured author and a book signing!
Teen Writing & Art Contest Winners
Check out the Timberland Regional Library Teen Writing and Art Contest collection for 2026! It features several NTPS student winners!
2026-27 Featured Author
Lacey loves to read Christina Soontornvat!
Christina Soontornvat is a three-time Newbery Award-winning, New York Times Bestselling author of picture books, early chapter books, middle-grade novels, and graphic novels for readers of all ages. She is the only author to receive Newbery Honors for both fiction and nonfiction in the same year.
Christina grew up behind the counter of her parents' Thai restaurant in a small Texas town, "with her nose stuck in a book."
2021 Newbery Honor Book: a compelling fantasy that explores privilege, protest, and justice. A boy on the run and a girl determined to find him.
2023 Newbery Honor Book: A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. A twelve-year-old assistant to a celebrated mapmaker struggles to break free of her role and chart her own destiny in a world of secrets.
A middle-grade fantasy series about students at Guardian Academy who learn to communicate with animals, meditate to strengthen their minds, and fight to protect the defenseless.
A magical adventure in which Izzy must rescue her sister from a fairy land as dangerous as it is magical.
Princess Lina's family can control the wind and weather as the Windtamer royal family, but she must keep her powers secret while she attends school.
2021 Newbery Honor Book: The incredible cave rescue of the Thai Boys' soccer team, combining community interviews with in-depth science content and details about the region.
Thank you to our amazing partners!
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Past Featured Authors
- 2026: Renée Watson
- 2025: Varian Johnson
- 2024: Donna Barba Higuera
- 2023: Dan Gemeinhart
- 2022: Brandon Mull
- 2021: Oge Mora
- 2021: Jason Reynolds
- 2020: Sharon M. Draper
- 2019: Kazu Kibuishi
- 2018: Kate DiCamillo
- 2017: Matt de la Peña
- 2016: Kwame Alexander
- 2015: Kashmira Sheth
- 2014: Patrick Carman
- 2013: Jennifer L. Holm
- 2012: Richard Jesse Watson
- 2011: Kirby Larson
- 2010: Joseph Bruchac
- 2009: Sy Montgomery
- 2008: Pat Mora
- 2007: Naomi Shihab Nye
- 2006: Walter Dean Myers
- 2005: Jane Yolen
- 2004: Gary Soto