The Role of School Libraries in Promoting Access to Supplementary Books

Abstract

The state school Centro Educa Mais Deborah Correia Lima has Annex II -Mamorana in the rural area, located in the municipality of São Bernardo, MA, which faces an economic deficit and limited access to social and cultural capital. This Annex II is attended by young people from farming families engaged in small-scale subsistence production based on planting and harvesting cassava, corn, and beans, and who are therefore financially disadvantaged. In view of this, the aim of this study is to analyze the development of reading practices in this Annex, taking into account the existence of a school library, the variety of literary genres, whether the environment is used by students, and whether they have a reading mediator. The study also examines how these students come into contact with paradidactic books and the influence of the absence of this cultural asset on broadening their academic horizons. The methodological procedure used for the research was a literature review and fieldwork based on semi-structured interviews, which were qualitative in nature. The results are the absence of a reading area and practices aimed at developing the habit of reading in Annex II -Mamorana.