Briana Balderrama and Angeliana Rendon- Zapata, Devine FCCLA members, are aiming to increase the number of people in our community and surrounding areas who read during their leisure time, because many people are unaware of the mental and physical benefits that come along with reading.
To get their project started, on November 1, 2025, they participated in Devine’s fall parade and festival by throwing over 500 pieces of candy with their information, an insert of a children’s book character, and a quote, “Help us lead the community with the power of pages!” Next, on November 10, 2025, they visited the elementary school library and read/performed Eric Litwin’s Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons as a puppet show to a first-grade and a kindergarten class. To let the 43 students have some fun with the activity, they had the children create their own brown paper bag puppet to take home.
You can follow the girls’ social media platform, the_powerofpages, which currently has 129 followers.
‘The Power of Pages’: An FCCLA Project Focusing on Reading
Briana Balderrama and Angeliana Rendon-Zapata prepare to introduce their project to the community at the fall parade.
