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 [...]
On MLK Day, ReadThis would like to thank the people whose community service in late 2010 led to a financially strapped public school in Bushwick, Brooklyn, getting 49 sets of 5 books each for their small reading groups.
This elementary school, PS 376A, asked ReadThis to help inspire its young readers by providing series for the [...]
A student from public charter school, PAVE Academy in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with one of the ReadThis book drive donations.
So many ReadThis members dug deep at the end of 2010 to help their fellow book lovers, we’re going to have to thank you all in waves.
Let’s start with the general book drives in November that gathered donations for New York City public schools in need from the Bronx, to Harlem, to Red Hook, to Bushwick [...]
What: Book Drives to collect gently used (or new) books for NYC kids in need
When: Saturday, December 4, 2010 (see specific dates below for each drop-off location)
How: Scan your shelves for books your kids no longer need, or buy a copy of your favorite book from when you were a young reader. [...]
We finally got to eyeball Andrew Jackson Middle School’s new library in Chalmette, Louisiana. And although our amateurish (but very funky) video doesn’t fully convey this, it is a beaut—thanks in large part to the generous friends of ReadThis.
If you haven’t been following the story, Andrew Jackson opened this fall for the first time since [...]
ReadThis members finished buying the set of 35 copies of Not Afraid of Dogs to support Behind the Book’s program to bring authors into the classroom. These books will go to a first-grade class at C.S. 21 in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. The book’s author, Susanna Pitzer, will visit three times to talk about her book, work with [...]
If you happen to be near Liberty, SC, this Saturday afternoon between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., please stop by the Sarlin Branch of the Pickens County Library. The Branch Friends of the Library are sponsoring a Book Drive to benefit ReadThis — in particular, to aid the ReadThis effort to raise books for the [...]
In this time of foreclosures, Wall Street pay-outs, and unemployment, ReadThis asked Martha McPhee (marthamcphee.com), author of the recent novel, Dear Money (loved by People magazine and Joseph O’Neill, among many others) to give us her choices of the best fiction about cash.
I have always loved novels that have money coursing through them, like [...]
Thank all of you for the wonderful donations. The students and staff are so excited to have such wonderful resources for the library and classrooms. This has been a great blessing for Andrew Jackson Middle. – Juanita Peralta, school librarian
