Bring Me A Book – Our goal is to bring the right book to the right child at the right time.

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Bring Me A Book provides book access to under-resourced children and families through partnerships with schools and other community-based organizations to support kindergarten readiness and grade level reading.

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Book Buddies

The Book Buddies program, founded in 2006, is an all-volunteer program for under-resourced preschool and early elementary classrooms. Trained Book Buddies read carefully selected hardcover books to the students sixteen times in the school year. Buddies offer ideas that extend the story by involving the children with questions, building new vocabulary, and connecting the story to the children’s lives. The books are gifted to replenish the classroom libraries. Twice a year each child receives a hardcover book to augment his/her home library.

Book Giveaways

Bring Me A Book selects and donates quality books to children through non-profit organizations who support our mission.

Book Cubbies

Cubbies are often gifted in conjunction with our Book Give-Away program where we have groups of children and parents together for literacy education. Parent and child decorate the cubby and it becomes the child’s home library.

Rotary Speakers

The Speaker Appreciation program was developed for service clubs as a means of recognizing guest speakers at their regular meetings. Organizations order books from Bring Me A Book for children aged pre-school through third grade.

FUNDED BY THE COMMUNITY

Donations from the local communities we serve are fed back into the community through area schools and partner organizations.

LINKED BY PARTNERS

By working with partner organizations, we reach children, parents and teachers more directly, allowing us to more efficiently accomplish our mission.

FUELED BY VOLUNTEERS

Volunteers are the heart of our program staff, meaning a greater percentage of every dollar donated is passed on to the children in the form of books and reading programs.

WHAT WE DO

We provide books to children at school and at home through non-profit partners who have well-established relationships with families.

Our partners direct the books to families and children who need them the most while supporting parents in using the books to help build their children’s literacy skills.

We select and purchase the best children’s books at the best prices.

Bring Me A Book selects books recommended by experts in children’s literature and purchases them at deeply reduced prices.

We engage volunteers in order to minimize administrative costs.

Our Book Buddy volunteers read and gift books to classrooms and homes.

We direct our funds toward books.

We are able to direct the majority of our financial support toward the purchase of books for under-resourced families and schools because we are a volunteer-driven organization.

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MORE LIKELY TO DROP OUT

Children who have not developed basic literacy skills by the time they enter school are three to four times more likely to drop out in later years.

RATIO OF BOOKS TO CHILDREN

There is a ratio of one book for every 300 children in low-income neighborhoods compared to a ratio of 13:1 in middle-income neighborhoods.

NOT PROFICIENT READERS

Two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders are not proficient readers according to National Reading Assessment data.

National Commission on Reading

"One of the most significant factors influencing a child's early educational success is an introduction to books and being read to at home prior to beginning school."

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