Check out the 2024-2025 Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees!

Thank you again NealShusterman for an amazing author visit with our students! Our Colts were mesmerized with your stories and learning about your journey as a writer! 📚🖊️❤️ #TesmSISD #SISD_Reads

Thank you to all our Deset Wind middle school guest readers who read to our littles for World Read Aloud Day! What a special time here in the library! 📚💛💙🌎 #SISD_Reads #SISDLibraries @DW_K8S

We’re playing matchmakers this month and selecting books for our readers with our ‘Blind Date with a Book’ challenge! What fun surprises are in store for our students? A romance, fiction, sci-fi, or a non-fiction story?❤️📚 #SISD_Reads #SISDLibraries @DW_K8S #ColtNation

Fun times at Desert Wind today! Our students loved showing off their Mardi Gras floats inspired by their favorite book. Check out our Reading Mambo Book Float Parade! #ColtNation @DW_K8S #SISD_Reads #SISDLibraries

More than 63,000 students across Texas voted and the results are in! The winner of the 2024 Texas Bluebonnet Award is: The Legend of Gravity: A Tall Basketball Tale, written and illustrated by Charly Palmer. Congratulations! Read the full release: txla.org/news/the-2024-…

Reading counts! 📚

Book Blast begins today! All you have to do is invite 10+ friends and family members to earn 3 awesome prizes and a chance to win one of four Treasure Chests or an iPad! Visit (bookblast.booksarefun.com/DesertWindES79…) and unlock treasure. It takes just 7 minutes TONIGHT. @DW_K8S #SISD_READS

"Studies conducted over the past two decades, both in Colorado and nationwide, show that students in schools with endorsed librarians score better on standardized achievement tests in reading, compared with students in schools without endorsed librarians." AASL AISLEd

Awesome author visit! Thank you Phillip D. Cortez for visiting our Colts and sharing your gift of storytelling! 📖🌕💕 Marcy Sparks #SISD_Reads #NationalLibraryWeek #ColtNation @DW_K8S

Thank you #bookblast for providing our Colt students with so many wonderful books! Our students loved the selection and can't wait to start reading! #coltsnation #SISD_reads #bookblastadventures #giveliteracy Marcy Sparks @DW_K8S

Eastlake Feeder pattern librarians on Day 1 of a new semester! Awkward on purpose, perfection by accident. 📚 #SISDREADS #ALLIN

Thank you! 😄 I truly love working with our readers and helping them find their voice!

What an amazing Family Craft Night we had here at Desert Wind! 🎨✨ A huge thank you to everyone who came out and brought their creativity to life with their fantastic book floats. 📚Can't wait for our next crafty adventure together in the library! #SISDLibraries @LCARRILLO_DWS

Our Scholastic Book Fair was a huge success! 📚✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us. Remember, "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." 🌟 #SISD_Reads #SISDLibraries #BookFair #ReadingRocks #LifelongLearning

This week, we celebrate the heart of our communities—our libraries! From endless shelves of knowledge to a safe, welcoming space for all, libraries are truly magical places. A special shout-out to all the incredible #TeamSISD school librarians who help ignite imaginations,

#TeamSISD is immensely proud of our reader, Monica C. for representing El Paso at this year’s Bluebonnet Award ceremony at the 2025 TLA conference in Dallas, TX! What a wonderful way to celebrate our readers and all their hard work! Thank you Texas Library Assn. for this amazing opportunity!