Reading by 9 holds several book drives throughout the year, including two long-standing book drives, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in the spring and the Reading by 9 Holiday Book Drive in the fall. Scholastic Inc., one of the nation's largest publishers of children's books, donates 200,000 annually. With the assistance of the county offices of education, the books are distributed to kindergarten through third grade classrooms in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura Counties.
Major Book Drives:
Festival of Books, April 26 & 27, 2008
Attendees at the Festival of Books are encouraged to bring a new or gently-used book and donate it to Reading by 9, or to buy a new book at the Festival to contribute.
Holiday Book Drive
Reading by 9 sponsors a book drive each October and November in partnership with Rotary International, Gadish Properties, Goodwill Industries of Southern California, The Salvation Army, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Council of Los Angeles, BookEnds, Love Ride Foundation, Skirball Cultural Center, Center Theatre Group. Donations of kindergarten through third-grade books, both new and gently used, are accepted at any Goodwill and Salvation Army locations during the two-month period. In addition, Scholastic, Inc. donates 200,000 new books. In 2007, the Holiday Book Drive garnered 552,871 new and gently-used books, which were donated to schools in Reading by 9's five-county target area in April/May 2008.
Additional Community Book Drives:
Borders Books and Music, August 2008. In 2007, Borders Books and Music conducted its first summer book drive for Reading by 9 and collected 31,798 new books. Inspired by this great success, Borders Books and Music plans to continue the drive in August 2008.
L.A.'s Biggest Mixer, July 24, 2008: To be held at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles.
Orange County Fair, July 30, 2008: Free general admission ticket for donation of one new or three gently-used children’s books.
You can send your books anytime to:
Los Angeles Times Reading by 9
202 W. First St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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