Books for kids

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

A HUGE thanks to those who have ordered books already! The books are starting to arrive, and it's so much fun opening the boxes and sorting them for families. Pretty soon, I'll start wrapping. The deadline for books to arrive at my house is DEC. 13.

This year, we have ten "adopted" families with a total of 36 kids. As a whole school, over 80% of our kids qualify for free or reduced lunch. The selected families are the neediest of that group. To give you some guidance if you want to select different/additional books, 7 of the 10 families are Spanish-speaking (parents only speak Spanish). One of the families speaks Somali. The other two families speak English. My goal is to collect enough new books so that each student receives at least one book of their own for the holidays.

Thank you again to all of Santa's "elves" who are using Amazon to get some fun books to kids in need! (If you can't participate, that's okay too.)

To help out, go to Amazon.com and put my name into the Baby Registry search engine. You'll find my list of books for kids and can click to buy and send.