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[reynardo]

Spent the last few days helping out with the Most Adorable Baby Brother-in-Law, but home today.

And then I found out about this:
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I just read about the Just One Book drive to benefit a (broke) tiny rural town's depleted library. The junior/senior high school hasn't been able to purchase anything since the '90s, and the library, currently being revamped, needs

. . . racially diverse books. We need graphic novels. We need women’s studies. We need science. We need series. We need film. We need comics. We need music. We need biographies of important people. Looking for Young Adult. Classics. We want zines! Contemporary. Poetry. Everything that would make a difference in a young person’s life. Writers send us YOUR BOOK. We have many non-readers who we’d love to turn on to reading. We need a way to take this tiny area and bring it into the 21st century.

If you have a book, a CD, or a DVD to spare, please donate it to

Greenville High School/Indian Valley Academy
Library Project Attn: Margaret Garcia
117 Grand Street
Greenville, CA 95947

Nota bene: If you send anything during July when the school is closed, please send your materials to

Library Project/Margaret Garcia
PO Box 585
Greenville, CA 95947

I can't imagine what a teenhood without a lot of books must be like; let's help make such deprivation a memory for the students of Greenville High School/Indian Valley Academy!

You can also purchase books from off the school's teachers' wishlist. If you don't want to support Amazon, you can contact Dawn at Books & Beyond, one of only two "local" bookstores near the school, to order books (at a 20% discount) for the Library Project!

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So I used a bit of my birthday money to make sure they have cool books on women of science.

Please pass this on - and if you can, send them a book.

Comments

[delphipsmith]

Wow, thank you SO MUCH for sharing this! I will definitely contribute, what an awesome cause :)

Edit: Oh my gosh, have you seen her latest post?? So many wonderful people in this world, it makes my heart happy...

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Yup - and I bet their next plea is "We need to extend our library and build 100 more bookshelves"

Which would be awesome.

[nocturnus33]

Lovely initiative!

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Isn't it!

[mywitch.livejournal.com]

That's so cool! I love it when things work out like this. :)