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.

Just this week our heavily laden delivery van made another stop at the Holyoke Alternative program in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Last year we built a library from the ground up for the grades k-8 program and this year I am pleased to report that their new library is being moved to a larger room to accommodate even more books as the school adds grade 9-12 to their program. We dropped off 700 books covering all grade levels and including a Compton’s Encyclopedia and the American Medical Association Home Health Library, so they are going to need the extra room.

With the fall in full swing we have been expanding our outreach like crazy. We just added our first school in Portland, Oregon, bringing our book program into its 20th state. We also have added two new schools in Washington, DC, a school in Oakland, California, and five more schools in the inner-city slums of Compton, California. These are in addition to the four Compton schools we were already serving. Here is a recent note from one of those schools.

David,

I just wanted to write you a letter of thanks for the books you brought to us last year. Due to the fact that we were undergoing a major renovation last year, our library was unavailable to our students. The books that your organization donated allowed us to ensure that every classroom had a working library, and that all students had access to books. The students were excited to have new and exciting books to read, and checkout from their classrooms. The students also enjoyed the notes on the inside of each book and knowing who donated it to their class.

Keep up the excellent work!!

You are brightening the lives of many students with the work your organization does.

Yours truly,

Allison Montgomery
Resource Teacher
Kelly Elementary School
Compton, CA

Speaking of our inner-city work, this fall we also added M.S. 324 in New York City. Here is a note from their literacy teacher.

Hi David,

Just wanted to thank you for the big box of books you dropped off for me and my students a few weeks ago. They are right on target! The kids are really enjoying the Goosebumps books and the Babysitters Club series, among others that you provided.

Thanks so much again for your help.

Aurora Smaldone
M.S. 324, NYC
Literacy Teacher

In addition to all the grade preK to 12 work we do we also serve a growing list of colleges. This past spring we began working with the United Negro College Fund on identifying historically African-American colleges that are especially in need of college level books for their libraries. This brought the addition of Barber-Scotia College, Bethune-Cookman College, Huston-Tillotson College, and Tougaloo College to the colleges we serve.

Our college work includes checking each book we send them against their online catalogues to ensure that the books are not already on their shelves. This is a time consuming process, but it is part of what has made our college work such a success.

Here is some recent feedback from Bethune-Cookman College.

Dear Reader To Reader,

Thank you very much for the donation of two boxes of books to the college library. The process is underway to get them into the system ASAP. The titles are excellent and will become an essential part of our collection.

Again, I would like to say 'Thanks' on behalf of the Bethune-Cookman College family for including us in such a wonderful program.

Sincerely,

Bobby R. Henderson
Library Director
Bethune-Cookman College

We are constantly striving to make sure that every book that we send, no matter the grade level, is the ideal book for that school. It means a sorting, selection, and shipping process that is both meticulous, and involves an interactive process with each school.

Thank your for your support.

Until next month,

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

Please help us with a tax-deductible donation.

Here are just a few of our recent book shipments:

Holyoke Alternative Program, Holyoke, MA

• Frozen Star
• The Epic of Man
• ABC's of the Human Body
• Spiders
• The Cornhusk Doll
• World of the Cat
• Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada
• 693 more

Carver Elementary, Compton, CA

• The Magic Crystal
• Song of the Trees
• El Paseo De Rosie
• World History Dates
• Addy Saves The Day
• Michael Jordan Basketball's Best
• John Philip Duck
• 35 more

Wyoming Indian School, Ethete, WY

• Fools Crow
• Lost City
• Women of Wonder
• JEM
• A Separate Peace
• Garden of Salt
• Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy
• Her Majesty's Wizard
• 25 more

Pine Ridge High, Pine Ridge, SD

• Girls of Summer
• Cosmos
• King of the Wind
• Mystic River
• Weather
• In These Girls Hope is a Muscle
• 30 more

Navajo Pine High School, Navajo, NM

• The Yearling (14 copies)
• Anpao
• The Great Chiefs
• The Practical Paleontologist
• Ansel Adams
• Sky Jam
• Skeleton Crew
• 70 more

M.S. 324, New York, New York

• Goosebumps (30 copies)
• Babysitters Club (30 copies)
• Michael Jordan Basketball's Best
• Dragonwings Animorphs (20 copies)
• The Book of Answers
• Great People of the 20th Century
• 40 more

Centennial High School, Compton, CA

• Mexican Folkways
• Water The Drop of Life
• Silent Spring
• How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
• Beloved
• How It Was Done
• 35 more

And that's just the tip of the iceberg!