Using a $300 grant from the Tolland Public Library Foundation, the library will have copies on hand this summer of most of the books recommended or required by Tolland’s middle and high schools.
Seventeen copies of books have already been ordered, including “Twelve Angry Men” by Reginald Rose and “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho for high school honors classes  and “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio for middle school classes.
Ginny Brousseau, the children’s librarian at the Tolland Public Library, said that without the Foundation grant, she would have been unable to order any extra copies of the schools’ summer reading choices due to budget constraints.
“This grant allows the library to have more copies of required and recommended summer reading titles for grades 6 to 12 available for students earlier in the summer than would otherwise have been possible,’’ Brousseau said.
The books should be on the library shelves within the next few weeks. Parents and students with library cards can check out the books for free. The library can also provide an interlibrary loan service for free for any books that have a waiting list.