To donate to our Book Flood Program to help all the teachers or a specific teacher, please go to:
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/we-are-creed/book-flood
To purchase books for a teacher’s classroom, please click the link on the Book Flood lists.
To donate to our Book Flood Program to help all the teachers or a specific teacher, please go to:
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/we-are-creed/2022-book-flood
Our SC Book Flood Lists are filled! Check out the great titles that are headed to teachers in South Carolina (even if the classrooms look a little different). We greatly appreciate all the donations, likes, shares, comments, etc. Teachers are greatly appreciated (mainly because our program is full of current and former teachers)!
Ms. Carter chose some fantastic books for her high school Science classroom. Everyone that we talked to kept saying, “Reading (insert book title) would have helped me so much in Science! Great book!”
Ms. Ennis will now be able to use her personal classroom set of “Le Petit Prince” in whatever way she would like this year as well as increase diversity conversations en francais with some additional choices.
Ms. Summers will use her books to help students understand their emotions, choices, and learn more about animals with her selection. We feel like some adults may benefit from reading from her collection!
All 7 teachers have accepted their nomination! We’ll start sharing book lists and teacher profiles as they are finalized. Who’s excited to help teachers?!
Last Sunday, we delivered 35 sets of books to the Chicago Office of Girl Forward. Girls in grades 9-12, who identify as refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers, are given a wonderful opportunity to have a mentor through the GirlForward Mentoring Program and together they’ll be able to read and discuss these books!
Book titles we chose include:
– Dear Martin
– The Skin I’m In
– Other Words for Home
– Like Vanessa
– Hurricane Child
– Ghost Boys
– Cinder
– Ghost
– American Born Chinese
– Beyond the Bright Sea
– Anger is a Gift
– With the Fire on High
– Wishtree
– The Poet X
– The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
– The 57 Bus
– Shout
– Amal Unbound
– A Very Large Expanse of Sea
– A Long Walk to Water
– The Stars Beneath Our Feet
– Merci Suarez Changes Gears
– El Deafo
– The Sun Is Also a Star
– Brown Girl Dreaming
– Inside Out & Back Again
– Amina’s Voice
– Wish
– I Am Not Your Perfect American Daughter
In light of recent events, this seems like an important conversation to have with children, because “children as young as three years old, when exposed to racism and prejudice, tend to embrace and accept it, even though they might not understand the feelings.”
Thank you, EmbraceRace, for creating this list.
Need a good book to read this weekend?
In honor of the teachers being nominated for the Illinois and South Carolina Book Flood program, which is still open, we are sharing two book lists for kids. (Book Flood Nominations are found at: www.wearecreed.org/book-flood/.)
The first is the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award list. As a prominent children’s book author in the great state of Illinois, Caudill’s Award allows children in 4th grade through 8th grade in Illinois are able to vote on their favorite book from this list.
The second list is from the South Carolina Association of School Librarians. Their book list is broken down by age group so the SC Junior Book Award, for example, is chosen by students in middle school.
Several of these books are found on both lists and we’d love to hear your recommendations!
Today is Pay It Forward Day! Please share how you are celebrating today — because it is possible despite the way we’re currently living. You’ll be amazed that it’s two-fold; someone else feels good and so do you!
Thank you to the 17 supporters that chose We Are Creed as their #AmazonSmileCharity! We will be using this money to buy books from our GirlForward program.
To check out additional books we need, please go to: https://smile.amazon.com/…/Y63ZHZJJV…/ref=smi_ext_lnk_lcl_cl
For directions on how to setup We Are Creed as your Amazon Smile Charity, please go to: https://www.wearecreed.org/donate/amazon-smile-instructions
More books arrived this week and last for our GirlForward project in Chicago! Thanks to Nancy in Wisconsin and anonymous donors, who sent books from our Amazon Wish List!
While you’re welcome to purchase items from bookstores and deliver, our Amazon Girl Forward Book List can be found at: https://smile.amazon.com/…/Y63ZHZJJV…/ref=smi_ext_lnk_lcl_cl
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