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Books in children's hands, reading gains, and the drives that pay for the next book. 16 verified stories. Stories come from Bena, Waco, and Columbus. Each one is checked and linked to the original report.
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CommunityAfter two years of Direct Instruction, students at Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School made close to four years of progress in basic reading. Some older students who had been three or four grades behind are now on grade level.
Verified · MPR News
CommunityThe Great Waco Duck Race supports Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Waco, which mails a free book each month to more than 2,000 McLennan County children.
Verified · KWTX
CommunityColumbus City Schools and the Columbus Metropolitan Library started the trips at Liberty Elementary. Nearly 4,500 students at 79 schools are included.
Verified · WSYX
CommunityCounty libraries launched a $36,205 campaign so children from birth to age 5 can get a book each month. About 1,400 children are already waiting.
Verified · WVIK
CommunityIndividual donors beat the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's $25,000 Children's Library goal in a few months, and the Friends added $3,000. The money is for new nonfiction, a sensory-friendly space, and an outdoor playscape.
Verified · North Star Monthly
CommunityAhead of their Oct. 3 game, Cougs Care and TCU supporters gathered about 650 books plus cash and supplies for Literacy United, which teaches children who struggle with reading.
Verified · Fort Worth Report
CommunityShoppers filled Trinity Episcopal Church’s used-book sale, and the proceeds go to groups including the Salvation Army and CASA.
Verified · The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
CommunitySEEDS volunteers sorted tens of thousands of donated books at the Wayne County Fairgrounds, and readers carried more than 28,000 of them home.
Verified · Pike County Courier
CommunityVolunteers cleared an annex, added shelving for more than 1,500 discs and audiobooks, and kept sale prices at a dollar.
Verified · Sequim Gazette
CommunityThe Sun Lakes club is giving about 4,000 dictionaries to third graders in Chandler Unified schools and the Gila River Indian Community.
Verified · AZ Family
CommunityDog Gone Kids 4-H placed a book box at the Cornell Cooperative Extension office on Main Street, the club’s third in Washington County.
Verified · The Post-Star
CommunityHallsville West Elementary passed 1,000 books given out through a machine students earn their way into, one student of the month at a time.
Verified · KLTV
CommunityNeighbors stocked a book-sharing box in front of the Congregational Church, with a shelf that leans toward children's titles.
Verified · Forks Forum
CommunityAbout 100 children's books from the Charles County Public Library now sit in a social services office in La Plata, and young visitors may keep them.
Verified · The Southern Maryland Chronicle
CommunityVolunteer Amanda West stocked a take-a-book box outside the sheriff's administration building in Springfield, Georgia.
Verified · WTOC
CommunityArjun Buch and Krishay Patel raised about $1,500 to make 1,000 financial literacy kits that teach younger kids about needs, wants, and saving.
Verified · 6abc Action News