First Book Donates nearly 16,000 Books!

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First Book Donates nearly 16,000 Books!

1 December 2011 2 Comments

We are excited to be the recipients of an enormous First Book grant. We are scheduled to pick up all 15,820 books on Thursday, December 1st. After this donation, we will have received over 30,000 books from First Book! These books will be used as Christmas book donations to local children.

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Brian Minter, First Book said:

This is great to see! We’d love to hear more about the kids you work with and their thoughts on the books. Feel free to drop us a line on our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/FirstBook) or email us at communications at firstbook dot org.

# 15 December 2011 at 3:52 pm

Mathew (author) said:

We sure will!

# 15 December 2011 at 6:26 pm

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Ride For Reading's mission is to promote literacy and healthy living through the distribution of books via bicycle to children from low-income neighborhoods. In low-income neighborhoods, the ratio of books per child is 1 age-appropriate book for every 300 children. *Reading is an integral part of education, and without books it is hard to build a strong academic base. Our children need materials to read at home and it is our goal to provide the means.
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