ATHENS – Mt. Olive Christian School is hosting a variety of authors during the national Read Across America Week 2025, which is March 3 through March 7. Featured authors will interact with students, with a different author each day.
During Read Across America Week, MOCS will host award-winning author Andy Coats, Wil Tolar, author of The Lion in the Thicket, Genevieve Wetzel, author of Together We Will Be, Rickey Pittman, author, folk singer, songwriter and storyteller, Perry Anderson, author of the Mr. Green and Mr. Blue series, Wesley Harris, law enforcement and historical fiction author, Stephanie Y. Anderson, children’s author, Bonnie Ferguson, author of Mabel & Erda, Lexie Scriber, author of 1, 2, 3, Mr. Lee, and Josh Beavers, writer for the Webster Parish Journal.
The schedule is as follows:
Monday, March 3
Rickey Pittman: from 8:30am until 9:30am, elementary presentation, and from 9:30am until 10:30aam, will be the middle/high school presentation.
Tuesday, March 4
Perry Anderson: from 8:15am until 9am, elementary presentation, and from 9am until 10am, Wesley Harris will deliver the middle/high school presentation.
Wednesday, March 5
Lexie Scriber: from 8:30am until 9:15am, elementary presentation, and from 9:30am until 10:30am, Wil Tolar will deliver the middle/high school presentation.
Thursday, March 6
Stephanie Y. Anderson: from 9 until 9:30 a.m., elementary presentation, from 9:30 until 10 a.m., elementary presentation; and from 10 until 11 a.m., Josh Beavers will deliver the middle/high school presentation.
Friday, March 7
Andy Coats will give both the elementary and middle high school presentations from
8:30 until 9:30 a.m. and 9:30 until 10:30 a.m., respectively.
Each day, during Read Across America Spirit Week, MOCS students can dress up for a different theme each day. On Monday, themed “Books Knock Your Socks Off,” students can wear crazy socks. On Tuesday, themed “Reading Makes Us Bright,” students can wear bright colors and sunglasses. On Wednesday, themed “Readers are our Future,” students can dress up as the future career they want to choose. On
Thursday, themed “Cozy up with a Good Book,” students can wear school appropriate pajamas or sweats to school. And on Friday, themed “Books boost our Imagination,” students can dress up as their favorite book character.
The public is invited to attend each day in the MOCS auditorium. For more information, call the school at 318-258-5661.