The Library is the Heart of every School.

The GQES Library is a warm welcoming and safe environment for our students to explore and personalize their academic growth and individual interests. Our goal is to provide learning resources and recreational reading materials for students, teachers, and staff while promoting a lifelong love of reading and learning.  In addition to print books, our library offers digital resources, such as e-books and online databases, including PebbleGo and World Book Online. Our library also hosts a Makerspace, where students can develop their skills in visual reasoning and comprehension of "How-To" texts through crafting, making, and building. Students attend library class as part of the Specials rotation. The library is open during school hours.

The American Association fo School Librarians' Standards for Student Learning is the foundation for instruction. Library lessons are also developed to introduce, reinforce, and supplement the Virginia Standards of Learning.

During Library Special, students are working on:

• Finding a just-right book
• Locating and selecting books to read for enjoyment and to read for information
• Identifying parts of a book
• Developing library research skills and researching topics in collaboration with classroom instruction
• Exploring the online catalog, Destiny
• Navigating online databases and resources such as FIND IT VIRGINIA, PebbleGo. and World Book Online
• Learning to appreciate a variety of literature through author studies, Reader's Theater, music, and movement

How can you help build literacy skills at home?

• Read aloud to your child.
• Let your child read aloud to you.
• Talk about what has been read.
• Have a special place in your home for books.
• Visit your public library and help your child get a library card. 

Reading List Resource