{"id":1291,"date":"2024-11-08T17:47:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T22:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/sandhills-new\/?page_id=1291"},"modified":"2025-01-14T13:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:32:56","slug":"battle-of-the-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/sandhills\/battle-of-the-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"\" class=\"esu-basic-full-width\">\n\n    <div class=\"inner\">\n        <div class=\"wrapper\">\n\n            \n                            <div class=\"title heading-2\">\n                    Battle of the Books                <\/div>\n            \n            \n                            <div class=\"content\">\n                    <p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/sandhills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/11\/BB1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/sandhills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/11\/BB1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/sandhills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/11\/BB1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/sandhills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/11\/BB1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/sandhills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/11\/BB2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/sandhills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/11\/BB2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/sandhills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/11\/BB2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/sandhills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/11\/BB2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Battle of the Books program is an annual voluntary reading incentive program to promote the love of reading among students in our Elementary Schools. Students work with each other to compete in a fun, academic-based competition that helps them improve reading skills, mature in their choices of reading materials and acquire a broader knowledge base.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Sandhills Branch along with our partnership with the local Rotary Club helps support the annual Battle of the Books with a generous grant that is used to purchase books for the tournaments.<\/span><\/h3>\n                <\/div>\n            \n            \n\n                            <div class=\"buttons\">\n                                                                                                                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/sandhills\/\" class=\"btn btn-solid btn-small\" target=\"\">Return to Home<\/a>\n                                                                                    <\/div>\n            \n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.2 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - 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