Freedom Readers Lancaster County

04/21/2026

Protect the freedom to read.

04/11/2026

How can you resist this perfect, loving face? Come meet EASD Facility Dogs, their handlers and your friends from Etown Common Sense. We have so many delicious goodies packaged up for you....including plenty of treats for your doggo!

Facility Dog Bake Sale Fundraiser
Saturday, April 11 | 9 am-1pm
Christ Church UCC - Look for our tents out front!

Need still more education advocacy in good company today?
Head to the Etown Public Library at 1pm-3pm for a discussion on censorship featuring The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath.... led by our courageous and dedicated Freedom Readers Lancaster County

02/04/2026

10/19/2025

If you care about the freedom to read, you need to see this.
French filmmakers spent more than a year in Elizabethtown, PA, documenting what happens when politics, fear, and religion start shaping what kids can read, learn, and even be. The result is American Pastoral — a gripping look at how censorship and control take hold at the local level, and how quickly communities can divide.
What’s happening in Etown could happen anywhere.
🎥 Join us Thursday, October 30th at 6:30 p.m. at the Allen Theatre.
🎟️ Get your tickets now:

Meticulously tracing the arc of a school board election in the small, predominantly conservative Pennsylvania borough of Elizabethtown, this strictly non-interventional documentary by French journalist and filmmaker Auberi Edler offers no narration or commentary on a fraught face-off between ideolog...

05/29/2025

🚨 Our school board gave Elizabethtown libraries a $0 budget this year. That’s right — ZERO! Apparently, they think students don’t need libraries.

Freedom Readers is stepping up — because when leadership fails, the community rises. We’re raising money to support E-town’s school libraries directly, so our students still have access to the books, resources, and opportunities they deserve! Please help donate!

Support Elizabethtown School Libraries – Because Our Students … Judi Grove needs your support for EASD Library Deserve Books- Even If School Board Disagrees!

05/09/2025

Join our next book study!

One of The New York Times's 100 notable books of 2021 Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and divides In the year 2020, Americans suffered one rude blow after a...

04/14/2025

Best dystopian psychological thrillers? Go!

03/15/2025

This field trip was for our journalism/yearbook class. This is a curricular field trip. They left these kids with nothing. If you can, please donate and share. These kids worked hard and deserve this trip!! Donation link in comments.

A group of Elizabethtown Area High School parents have raised nearly $9,000 and are sending nine girls on a yearbook and journalism field trip to Columbia University after the district’s

03/06/2025

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