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Students from La Joya make annual trip to Texas Book Festival

La Joya High School student Juan Martínez smiles outside of the Texas Capitol after a long day at the Texas Book Festival. Photo by Elly Dearman

The students of La Joya High School in La Joya, Texas woke up at 2 a.m. traveled about 230 miles from the southern border of Texas to attend the Texas Book Festival on Saturday.

The 35 students who made the drive up to Austin are members of their school’s book club. With about 50 members total, the group works to “combat illiteracy” in their school. This is the group's tenth year of making this trip.

“In our region we don’t really read. We have the lowest (end of course exam),” Bianca Esquivel, a member of the club, said.

During the day, the student walked around the festival in their camouflage club shirts attending speaker sessions, snacking on food from vendors and taking in Austin.

In the students’ town, English and reading is not focused on, Juan Martinez, another member of the club said.

“They don’t really push English until you get to high school,” Martínez said.

Club member Vanessa Saenz said that she enjoys visiting Austin for the festival because of the different types of people the city has.

“Where we’re from it just one certain type of people and here it’s really diverse,” Saenz said.

This diversity was noticeable at the festival, according to Esquivel.

“To be at the festival where different people get to read and people from every culture likes books, it’s really cool,” Esquivel said

Most students at La Joya High School do not like reading, club member Magdalena Garza said, but the book club students want to change that.

“We have over 2000 students, and to have like 50 of them actually enjoy reading is really sad,” Garza said. “That’s why we’re combating illiteracy.”

 - Elly Dearman, Team Two

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Author Spotlight: Luke B. Goebel

Photo by Ginny Scherer

Meet Luke B. Goebel, Author of “Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours”

Goebel is a first time Texas Book Festival Author. His first novel is a compilation of short stories about characters across the U.S.

Goebel said he tried to write a novel before this one, but threw it away. He said he published this novel because he thought it “was right.”

“Mostly I was just writing stories, like short-fiction, just trying to learn how to write well, experimenting,” Goebel said. “And then they were successful enough experiments that I set them all out and worked them into a novel.”

- Elly Dearman, Team Two

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Nicole Callihan, reading from her poem "A Woman of God"

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Author Spotlight: Jim Truchard

Photo by Virginia Scherer

Meet Jim Truchard, author of “Memories from a Hill Country Garden.”

Truchard was at the Texas Book Festival on Satuday promoting his first book “Memories from a Hill Country Garden”.

The book is a collection of photos and memories from his time living with his wife in the Texas Hill Country. Truchard said he wrote the book to honor his wife after her recent death. He said he would often take photos of his land and wanted a place to compile them.

“I had 120,000 pictures, so figured I had to do something with them,” Truchard said.

Truchard, who is also a CEO and co-founder of National Instruments, had never attended the festival before. He said his favorite part of the day was meeting people from his hometown and selling them a book.

- Elly Dearman and Ginny Scherer, Team Two