Interim Superintendent Alycia Meriweather speaks at the project launch. Beside her is the little library she's personally donated to Marcus Garvey Academy. This one is a replica of the "school house" first ever little library. The countdown has begun! Plant 97 little libraries at all 97 Detroit public schools in 97 days. The “summer slide” in reading has already begun in Detroit as children from book-impoverished neighborhoods are slipping behind their peers living in neighborhoods rich with summer reading materials. This summer, Alycia Meriweather, the new interim superintendent of Detroit Public Schools Community District, is doing something about it. And she needs your help. She, along with the Detroit Public Schools Foundation, Detroit Little Libraries, and the national Little Free Library organization, launched the project last Thursday and are putting out a call to people who care about Detroit's children. >The goal is bold. No school district has ever attempted this. And to