Our reading specialist told me she was going to apply to get books through First Books for this coming year. www.firstbook.org/receive-books Not sure if she has been successful, but we are also a Title I school, so that may also make a difference.
When we had our book fair last year we used the proceeds from the fair to buy books to give to every child in the school. You can get some bruised books from Scholastic for situations like this, but we had far better luck at a second hand book store called 2nd & Charles--there aren't many in the country, but it looks like they are opening one about an hour away from you. We waited for them to have sales and ended up paying an average of $2 book--and while it is a used bookstore, they have lots of publishers remainders and overstocks, etc., so most of the books we got were new, and were hardcovers. Used books are a great way to stock up on classroom library books.
Target Read With Me Educational Grant from Target Corporation. Target will work to encourage parents and caring adults to commit to a reading schedule with a child, provide up to two million books to children in need, and create an innovative reading center that will reach communities across the country using both physical and virtual locations.
We desperately need to update some classroom books, and were wondering if there was such a thing as book grants? or programs for free books or book purchase matching?
Let me know if you've ever had any luck.
Thanks
Dawn
New Boston, Mi Brown PTO
