Come to the superb Greenlight Bookstore in Ft. Greene this Saturday, December 17, to knock out your holiday shopping—and get it lovingly gift-wrapped by ReadThis’s crack team of scotch-tape warriors! All tips will go to ReadThis to buy books for a library or classroom in need. You’ll support a local bookseller, expand access to good [...]
For as little as $5.99 you can get a book into the hands of a 4th or 5th grader in West Harlem. These kids want to compete in Battle of the Books, but they need help getting the books. Can we buy them a total of 48 books in the next 14 days so they [...]
If you want to hear what ReadThis has done and hopes to do in the next months, listen to this NYU radio interview with ReadThis board members, Jeffrey Rotter and Biz Mitchell.
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Through ReadThis, our friends at the National Book Foundation once again donated Young Adult books to a school that needed them. A full 138 books went off to a public middle school in Brooklyn. You can read here how much the donation meant. Thank you, National Book Foundation:
Dear ReadThis and the National Book Foundation,
I [...]
We have got to hand it to two of ReadThis’ youngest members, Beckett and his friend, Eli, who threw a joint birthday party and asked their friends to bring books to donate to a public school in New York that needed them. ReadThis directed them to P.S. 46, Edward Blum school in Fort Greene, which [...]
The Weinstein Company donated 500 copies of The Road by Cormac McCarthy through ReadThis to the Bronx Academy and to Science Skills Center High School in Brooklyn. The books will be taught to senior classes and AP English this spring.
There are so many great Irish books it is hard to know where to start. But if you would like to sample some Irish writing, without plunging straight into Finnegans Wake, or if you fancy exploring beyond Joyce, Beckett, Wilde and Yeats, here are a few ideas. A good place to start is the Collected [...]
In late January 2011, ReadThis was approached by Ben Mathan, Inter Greek Council Vice President at New York University. The Greek Council had launched a drive to collect children’s books and had been so successful, they had 5,000 books to give away. ReadThis identified three public elementary schools in Brooklyn (Fort Greene, Bed-Stuy, and Bushwick) greatly [...]
Dear ReadThis and ReadThis Members,
Happy New Year! Here at PAVE Academy Charter School in Red Hook, Brooklyn, we can say with confidence that our students had a very happy New Year thanks to the generosity of ReadThis and its members. We received a very large donation of gently used books from ReadThis in December and [...]
ReadThis volunteers put in a weekend of gift-wrapping at Brooklyn’s Greenlight Bookstore the weekend before Christmas. All tips went to supplement the classroom libraries at nearby PS 46. They burned through rolls of paper and yards of Scotch tape, and when the dust cleared, they’d collected $668—enough to send more than FIFTY NEW BOOKS to [...]
