I am a proud member of the Book Harvest Authors' Circle.
From the Book Harvest website:
Book Harvest works to provide a book-rich home environment for Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, NC) children in need.
A nonprofit organization, we work with our community to collect new and gently used children's books and to provide these books to children who need them. We believe that having plenty of books at home helps children start kindergarten ready to learn, combat summer learning loss once they are in school, and self-identify as readers.
We believe books are a vital tool to help all kids succeed in school and in life.
Every child deserves to grow up with books -- yet more than half of low-income kids do not own a single book. Working together, we can rewrite that story.
A nonprofit organization, we work with our community to collect new and gently used children's books and to provide these books to children who need them. We believe that having plenty of books at home helps children start kindergarten ready to learn, combat summer learning loss once they are in school, and self-identify as readers.
We believe books are a vital tool to help all kids succeed in school and in life.
Every child deserves to grow up with books -- yet more than half of low-income kids do not own a single book. Working together, we can rewrite that story.
Authors' Circle (l-r: Mike Wiley, Stephanie Greene, Django Haskins, Daniel Wallace, Sarah Dessen, me, Randall Kenan)
MLK, Jr. Day of Service, 2014
(l-r: Frances O'Roark Dowell, John Claude Bemis, me, Kristyn Kusek Lewis)
Wool. E. Bull lending a hand at Book Harvest's MLK, Jr. Day of Service, 2014