She’s small but mighty good at reading. Three-year-old Emma Stevens solemnly displays the cookie she just decorated as part of the End of Summer Reading Program Ice Cream Finale celebration at McTureous Hall aboard Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, Calif., July 17. Marine Corps Community Services from Marine Base Camp Pendleton sponsors the popular reading encouragement program that has been proven, according to the programs administrators, to stop “summer slide”, or the period at the beginning of every school year where students have to be retaught what they learned the previous year.

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