Dear Readers,

When you finish your schooling, your learning will just begin. Adults have to learn something new and unexpected everyday. And we don’t do it for a grade; we do it to survive.

But we have books to help. If we’re lucky enough to learn how to read them, life is a lot easier. Because books are really just other people telling us about their mistakes. If we read about them in books, then we don’t have to make them ourselves. Sometimes learning from our own mistakes is useful, but usually it’s just painful.

So in school we teach you how books work, how to read them, and how to learn lessons from them. If you learn them well, those lessons will last a lifetime.

Mr. Heimbuck