Northridge is a TK - 6th grade elementary school located in Fair Oaks, California.
Our school library offers more than 6,000 books for our students to choose from.

We have graphic novels, chapter books, beginning readers, picture books, and more!

It's never too late to turn in Northridge Library books -- even if you borrowed them during a previous school year! Books may be turned into the school office whenever the office is open.

If you have any questions about your student's library account, please email me at melani.wilkie@sanjuan.edu

Thank you for helping your student be a responsible library patron!

If a book is LOST and cannot be found and returned, or if the book is damaged beyond repair while checked out to a student, a fine equal to the cost of the book will be due. This type of fine may be paid in cash, in the office or in the library. This fine stays on a student's record until it is paid. At Northridge, replacement of the book with a new copy is also allowed and encouraged. This policy is in place to help students recognize their responsibility and demonstrate respect for shared resources.

Library visits take place weekly and each class visits for up to 30 minutes as a group.

Students in TK-1st grade check out books as a class each week, and all their library books stay in their classrooms. Students in these grades may individually borrow books with parent permission.

Students in grades 2 - 6 may check out one or more books, depending on their grade level and the number of lost or late books currently in their account.

Library books check out for one week at a time and may be renewed as many times as needed.

There are no late fees for books that are returned.

Read freely this summer! Join the SacLibrary Summer Reading Challenge and read anything you want – books, ebooks, graphic novels, magazines, audiobooks – it all counts. Log your reading in SacLibrary's Beanstack app, and complete activities to earn badges and prizes June 1 - August 15, 2025. https://www.saclibrary.org/Event/Special-Events/Summer-Reading

This summer, kids in grades 1-6 earn a FREE book through the Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Program. Read any eight books and record them in your Summer Reading Journal (print from website). When you're done, bring it to a Barnes & Noble store and choose your free book! Redeemable 7/1-8/31.

Library books are for everyone, so please take care of your books for the next person to use!

• --Keep books CLEAN and DRY
• --Keep all labels, tape, and pages attached
• --Keep books away from food, drinks, and unsupervised baby humans and animals!

• know where your books are
• return your books to the library every week
• talk about books! Kids of ALL AGES improve their reading skills when families read and talk about books TOGETHER! :-)

Our school library encourages a love of books, literacy, and learning!

How can YOU help?

Please take special care of school library books, and return them in a timely manner!

Library books are accepted at any San Juan Unified school site, no matter how overdue they may be.

We also happily accept donations of new or nearly new children's books!

If you would like to contribute to our student's reading choices, please consider purchasing from one of our wishlists below!

We would like to offer our heartfelt thanks for all of the support we have received from the community over past years.

Donations include generous support from the Fair Oaks Rotary, Debra Price and Bruce Hagel, Lindsay Dilloway and family, Ruby's Books, Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church, retired teacher Marci Ortega, and the Northridge Elementary PTA.

Northridge is also the recipient of a Carson Scholarship Fund Reading Room, established in 2014, which offers fun and interesting reading materials at every visit. This area of our library contains books that do not check out, to ensure they are always available for anyone to browse.

As part of the San Juan Unified School District, we partner with the Sacramento Public Library to offer wonderful DIGITAL/ONLINE resources through the Student Success Card program. Students have access to free live online tutoring and homework help; research databases; and instant e-book and audiobook borrowing.

Click below to learn more about this program and how to sign in.

This link is for everyone, not just for teachers!

If you would like to borrow paper books from the library, visit your local branch located in Fair Oaks Park. Getting a full access card is free and available to all children with their legal guardian present. All you need to bring is a current ID, and proof of address such as a utility bill.

If you already know how to sign in with your Student ID number, use the links below to go directly to what you're looking for!

Any questions, comments, or suggestions?

Please send me an email!

--Mrs. Wilkie, MLIS, Library ICT

melani.wilkie@sanjuan.edu