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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
rgz and First Book Partner for A Novel Gift! Over 125,000 free books to low-income teens
BREAKING NEWS! readergirlz and First Book are partnering to give away more than 125,000 brand-new books to low-income teen readers.
They’re great books, too, donated by generous publishers. Among the three dozen choices are P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast’s HOUSE OF NIGHT series and Alyson Noël’s SHADOWLAND.
We need your help getting the word out about the A Novel Gift campaign. Right now! Right now! As in, now!
Let's get organizations serving these teens registered with First Book so they can be matched with inventory during the holidays.
Here’s what we need you to do:
Post to Facebook and tweet your beak off about these books using the hashtag #novelgift.
Here’s a tinyurl link to their registration page: http://tinyurl.com/2a5mwpj.
Or you can link to this blog post: http://readergirlz.blogspot.com/2010/11/novel-gift-over-125000-free-books-to.html
Then, get in touch with every group you can think of that works with young adults–schools, after-school programs, church youth groups, community centers, etc.—and let them know that these books are available now.
The five-minute online registration these groups can use is here:
http://booksforkids.firstbook.org/register/.
First Book is also eager to answer questions, either by email to help@firstbook.org, or by phone at 866-READ-NOW or 866-732-3669.
If you participate, drop us a note at readergirlz@gmail.com to be included in our blog roll of thanks to run December 31.
Be a part of A Novel Gift! OK, go! And thanks, sincerely, from First Book and the readergirlz teams.
Facebooked and tweeted!
ReplyDeleteBlog post scheduled to go live tomorrow and tweeting now! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, friends!
ReplyDeleteWow, this is awesome. THANK YOU! Retweeted and in the process of contacting school officials at my kids schools to get them signed up as well.
ReplyDeleteRetweeted and Facebooked! This is a wonderful thing!
ReplyDeleteShouting form the rooftops! xx
ReplyDeleteSaw this on boingboing and have passed the word via FB and twitter. I'm also letting our school librarian know as I believe my school qualifies.
ReplyDeleteThis is incredibly cool. I tweeted, blogged, & facebooked this!
ReplyDeleteA tad late, but retweeted just the same.
ReplyDeleteJust added my school with First Book!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great project! Is there a way to find out what other titles are available to these young readers?
ReplyDeleteI posted about this on my blog :)
ReplyDeleteHooray!! I facebooked and will spread the word.
ReplyDeleteYou galz are so amazing! Great project - I'll blog about it!
ReplyDeleteNamaste and hugs all round,
Lee
Wow! This is wonderful. I facebooked, tweeted, and I'll make a couple of calls here in Buffalo, NY too. Thank you for your hard work! A.
ReplyDeleteFacebooked and Tweeted and will repeat - you guys are the best and most generous group! Hugs -
ReplyDeleteWow, I hope I found out in time -- just put in the application for my neighborhood's Christmas basket program and for my local school. Big big big thanks for the books for teens!!!
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