Big Read gets bigger

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Bless Me, Ultima" will soon be suggested reading for the city. Thanks to the aggressive grant writing efforts by the city's library officials, we have two books to read for the community reading initiative Big Read.

Rancho is the only city to be awarded two Big Read grants from the National Endowment for the Arts this year. They received double the money simply because they asked for it.

"No one has ever thought of applying for two, but we did," said Assistant Library Director Michelle Perera.