The district’s two book mobiles—called Pow and Explore—are about to hit the road to bring a summer of reading to Gwinnett County students! Our book mobiles are returning to neighborhoods next week to bring library books to where our students are this summer… at home! Starting on Tuesday, May 28, the two mobile libraries will travel routes that will take them to 98 stops in five clusters every week! The colorful converted school buses will make nine stops per day, checking out books to students who may not have easy access to the public library.

     The book mobiles will travel routes in the Berkmar, Central Gwinnett, Discovery, Meadowcreek, and Norcross clusters. These libraries on wheels are stocked with books for all ages—Pre-K to 12th grade. The weekly schedule (11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday) will repeat each week through Tuesday, July 16. (Note that the book mobiles will not travel on June 19 or July 4.)

     From June 10 until June 28, the GCPS School Nutrition Program will offer meals to children visiting the book mobiles at the first four stops each day, Monday through Friday. The GCPS Book Mobile has also partnered with Backpack Buddies of Metro Atlanta to provide snacks at each stop throughout the program.

A new van has been added to the fleet this summer and will travel routes near Baggett ES in the Discovery Cluster. Routes for the van begin on June 4 and end on July 16. 

The routes are available on www.gcpsbookmobile.org. This summer, you also can follow the bookmobiles on Instagram @gcpslibraries or through the hashtag #GCPSBookMobile.