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.

Reader To Reader would like to gratefully acknowledge a $1,000 grant from the Posel Foundation of Philadelphia. It is aid that we urgently need as we continue to expand our work. Just this month we added two more schools in rural Maine, Lubec Consolidated and Bay Ridge Elementary, Moiser Elementary in S. Hadley, MA, and shipped 78 books to our first school in Chicago, Avalon Park Elementary. And there are so many more schools that we want to reach.

I am also pleased to announce that we have been honored with the Pioneer Valley Reading Council Literacy Award for 2004. The Pioneer Valley Reading Council is an affiliate of the Massachusetts Reading Association and International Reading Association.

"Your program allowed many libraries to get books free of charge so that many people could read and enhance their learning," noted Ms. Michal Harling, Pioneer Valley Reading Council Literacy Award Chair. "You gathered the support of other people in your community to assist in this program. Your program has also enhanced the lives of people in Navajo reservations, poor rural communities and inner city areas. Your program has given many people the opportunity to read and develop their learning and improve their ability to achieve."

Speaking of our work on Native American reservations, here is a recent note from the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming:

Dear Mr. Mazor,

You sent some wonderful Native American books in my last shipment that my staff just flipped over. Some were titles that are no longer in print and are very valuable for our research projects. Thank you for helping the students on the Wind River Indian Reservation find more out about themselves and their past.

Sincerely,

Darlene Powell
Wyoming Indian High School

Our work in Holyoke, MA at the Holyoke Alternative Program brought a smile to Christine Sullivan, a University of Massachusetts student who is coordinating the construction of the first library at the inner-city school. When she left for winter break there was an empty room, and when she returned...

Mr. Mazor,

Our library is so lovely it was amazing to return from break and see the transformation of the room. You have given our children a retreat from their hectic lives, a place that encourages growth of imagination and dreams and we will be forever grateful.

Sincerely,

Christine Sullivan
Holyoke Alternative Program
Holyoke, MA

This is the work we are committed to seven days a week.

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:

Avalon Park Elementary, Chicago, IL

• Insects in Their World
• A Book of Real Science
• Insect Metamorphosis
• World of Weather
• The Lorax
• The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
• Ramona Forever
• 70 more

Lubec Consolidated School, Lubec, ME

• Hyperspace
• Van Gogh to Picasso
• Maus
• Jefferson Davis & His Generals
• Chronospace
• The Impressionists And Their Art
• A Confederacy of Dunces
• Great Elizabethan Playwrights
• 20 more

Davidson High School, St. Josephs, LA

• Fire On Earth: Doomsday, Dinosaurs, and Humankind
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• Beloved
• The Black Death & Peasants Revolt
• Champions Are Raised Not Born
• Lay Down My Burden: A Folk History of Slavery
• 30 more

Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS

• Leadership in a New Era
• Resistance & Reformation
• Fear in Chile
• The Debt
• The Reckoning
• Ain't Makin' It
• 8 more

Hughes High School, Hughes, AR

• The Book of Mammals
• Planets and Satellites
• The Wolf
• Seas and Oceans
• Apes
• Harlem On My Mind
• How To Make A Mummy Talk
• 20 more

Wilkinson High School, Woodville, MS

• Abstract Painting
• America As Seen By Its First Explorers
• Recent Revolutions in Astronomy
• Realms of the Sea
• Invisible Man
• Native Son
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
• 30 more

Navajo Pine High School, Navajo, NM

• Storm Chasers
• The Human Body
• Elephant Memories
• Everest
• Monet
• The Ancient Assyrians
• The Impressionists
• The Runelords
• Distant Encounters
• Mirror World
• 25 more

Wyoming Indian School, Ethete, WY

• Timetables of Science
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Whole Shebang
• Walt Whitman: Selected Poems
• Snake River Birds of Prey
• Frontiers of Science
• The Watcher
• Redwall
• Outcast of Redwall
• Degas
• 30 more

And that's just the tip of the iceberg!

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