This year’s Scholastic Book Fair shared the marketplace with student-created goods available next door in the first-ever Boxford Store.  The store raised money for causes chosen by the students and also recognized the creative efforts of winners of the “Wired for Greatness” grants.

This event combined with the annual Book Fair made for a fun-filled week of “retail” education, as students learned about the effects of a sales tax on the cost of their purchases at the Book Fair, and also how to make choices about how to spend their “budgets”.

Thanks to the efforts of a dedicated group of parent volunteers, the Book Fair raised $1600 that will be spent on new books for the Spofford Library collection.