Practicing What I Preach
Talking about the program is great, but I needed to get some action behind my words. So I took two books off my shelf, and thought about what to do with them..... They are both popular books right now, and I could give them away on this blog - or even just trade them on swap.com (between the two books, I had my choice of nearly 100,000 items). But classrooms were requesting these books, and now I am happy to say that I am Number Four is on its way to a school in Arkansas, while Delirium is on its way to a school in Illinois. This isn't to say that I won't be giving away books like these in the future.... but maybe I'll try to keep a happy balance.
Please, take a look at the site and see if you might have anything a school could want. Also, if you know any teachers or librarians out there - let them know about the site, and how they could get books for their classrooms too!
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I've reposted this from Sarah Reads Too Much with her permission. This is also something I feel real strongly about. I have a friend who teaches in a lower income school where the students don't have a lot of extra money to spend to "fun" reads. She keeps a lending library in her homeroom where she provides "fun" reads, often out of her own pocket. I often pass along YA books that I've won or bought myself as a way of feeding the need to read. If you have YA books that need a home please check out this site Swap4Schools and donate. Please let Sarah know that thanks to her article you are helping to Feed the Need to Read!
Thanks so much for sharing this - its a great program will pass on.
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Will certainly pass this program along to friends. Thanks for sharing.
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This is a great program. I'll have to get in touch with Sarah. Thank you for posting this.
ReplyDeleteI love this idea. I am working on my teaching degree and it costs a lot to keep up with a classroom library and update it with new popular books.
ReplyDeletewonderful program! will tell others about it!
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What a great program, I will have to share this with others!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous program! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea, I'll be passing this along to my teacher friends, thanks!
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Even though both of our sons are in college, I love to do what I can
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Many thanks, Cindi
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Sounds like an awesome program and a great way to get students to read. I wish we had this in my country. Goodness knows we need to read more books.
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