This year’s Greene County Reads program will end later this week.

Jefferson Library Director Jane Millard says participants have been reading the book “Orphan Train” by Christina Baker Kline.  It is a fictional story based on Kline’s research of American history between 1854 through 1929 when almost 250,000 orphan children were brought from the East Coast on trains and were put into homes in the Midwest.

Book discussions will take place on Thursday, April 16th at three of the County’s six libraries.  The three libraries are Churdan Public Library at 9am, the Rippey Public Library at 2pm and the H.F. & Maude E. Marchant Memorial Library in Scranton at 7pm.

Millard talks about who will lead each of the discussions on Thursday.

“All of the discussions will be led by Jan Scharingson again this year.  She’s a retired English teacher from Grand Junction and she does a wonderful job.  I’m sure it will be as interesting this year as it has been in past years.”

The Greene County Reads program is sponsored by the Greene County Libraries Association and the Greene County Board of Supervisors.