Dear Friend of Reader To Reader,

I hope you enjoy this newsletter about the Reader To Reader Book Project. Our success is very much due to your donations of books, postage money, and most of all your generous spirit. Please forward this newsletter and help us spread the word.

Last month's two-week book drive at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame netted well over 1,000 children's books. I want to thank Paul Lambert and the whole Hall of Fame staff for not only collecting the books, but also sorting them by grade-level, which greatly streamlined the work we had to do. You guys were super and we look forward to the Reader To Reader Book drive becoming an annual Hall of Fame event.

The influx gave us the resources to add two more Springfield area schools to the Reader To Reader program; White Street Elementary and Washington Elementary. Both schools have over 92% of their students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, as compared to the state average of 29%.

The mountain of children's books also enabled us to expand our work in inner-city Los Angeles. Last month we added Anderson Elementary, Kelly Elementary, and King Elementary, which all have over 99% of their students receiving free or reduced-price lunch.

Our first shipment to King Elementary has already been incorporated into their new reading program.

Dear Reader To Reader,

The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School family deeply Appreciates your act of kindness. Your donation of books came right on time. Our school has partnered with the neighborhood middle school to have their students read to our Kindergartners each week. Your books were used in our first event which was a great success. We will continue to use your future books in this manner in addition to building our school library. We want you to know that around this place you are profoundly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Dr. Alane Calhoun, Principal
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School
Compton, California

Speaking of profoundly appreciated, I would like to take a moment to express our gratitude for all the donations large and small that make Reader To Reader possible. Shipping books across the country chews up a lot of postage, so thank you for your contributions. I would especially like to highlight the donation of Fairfield University student Christy Huntley, who asked the university to donate her Poetry Award prize money to Reader To Reader, noting, "I love what your organization is doing for literacy in the United States. Keep doing what you’re doing!"

Thank you Christy. We sure will keep doing what we are doing.

Thank you for reading this newsletter and we thank you for your support.

Until next month,

Sincerely,
David Mazor
Reader To Reader
http://www.readertoreader.org
email: dmazor@readertoreader.org

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Here our just a few of our recent book shipments:

Port Gibson High School, Port Gibson, MS

• Physics: Principles & Problems (13 copies)
• Lasers
• Great Elizabethan Playwrights
• Frankenstein
• Billie Holliday
• 20 more

Kimball Elementary, Kimball, WV

• Dinosaurs Forever
• Miss Moo Goes to the Zoo
• Don’t Eat the Teacher
• Safety First
• The Seven Sisters
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Nightjohn
• 35 more

Navajo Pine High School, Navajo, NM

• Retained by The People
• Science Fiction Hall of Fame
• The Body Book
• Great Short Stories of the World
• Indian Country
• 30 more

Fort Fairfield Elementary, Fort Fairfield, ME

• The First Woman Doctor
• Storms
• Stories
• Fish
• The King Who Rained
• The Case of the Cat Mummy
• The Farm
• Look at Me
• 30 more

Humphrys High School, Belzoni, MS

• Asimov’s Mysteries
• The Outsiders
• Brave New World
• Great American Short Stories
• The Book of Three
• Portable Faulkner
• The Old Man and the Sea
• 35 more

PS 178, Brooklyn, NY

• When Marian Sang
• She Wanted To Read
• Martin is Our Friend
• Freckle Juice
• Mystery of the Deep Blue Sea
• Visitors for Edward
• The Bear Scouts
• The Sigh of the Beaver
• Bringing Nettie Back
• 45 more

Sigel Elementary, St. Louis. MO

• The Giver
• A Gift of Magic
• Monkey Trouble
• Muggie Maggie
• Benji
• Rascal
• A Dog Called Kitty
• The Pizza War
• Tuck Everlasting
• 80 more

Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS

• Divided Waters
• Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
• The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Dragon of Knowledge
• 20 more

And that's just the tip of the iceberg!

To be added to this newsletter please email dmazor@readertoreader.org