Kids Need to Read - Giving Children's Books to Libraries in Need

Kids Need to Read works to create a culture of reading for children by providing inspiring books to under-funded schools,
libraries, and literacy programs across the United States, especially those serving disadvantaged children.

Eureka! KNTR Used Book Sale This Saturday in Mesa, AZ!
Good Friends and Good Conversation
Change is the Only Constant: Kids Need to Read Welcomes
Dr. James Blasingame as Chairman of the Board
Signed ARC of The Softwire: Awakening on Orbis 4
Up for Auction!
The Berline Christmas Donation
– Telling the Children of Detroit, "We Care"
Breaking the Cycle
Shorty Awards
Give Us Your Pre-loved Books!
New Year, New Name, New Priorities

January Auction
Michael’s Book Bytes:
The Lightning Thief
KNTR HIKRZ
KNTR Wall Calendar

Kids Need to Read is a national nonprofit charity focusing on promoting childhood literacy and addressing the deplorable state of library funding that currently exists in the United States. Donating exciting, new books to schools, public libraries, health clinics and shelters in need, the foundation works to develop a lifelong love of reading in all children.

The highly praised Kids Need to Read book donation list features the best of contemporary reading material to appeal to the sensibilities of today’s youth, including the most reluctant of readers. Whether it is giving free comics and Highlights for Children magazines to homeless children or providing the first books to a charter school with no library, Kids Need to Read focuses on one goal – getting kids to pick up something to read and never wanting to stop.

The books arrived on Friday, thank you! My students are devouring them already — I thought you’d like to hear this quote from one of my most reluctant readers, who is reading one of the Actionopolis books: “Dude! I’m reading for the first time in my life!”

Ann Brennan, Seventh and Eighth Grade Teacher,
Potter Junior High School, Fallbrook, California

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from our Kids Need to Read founders:

From Founder PJ Haarsma:

When I first traveled across North America to promote The Softwire, my initial excitement quickly turned to dismay when I witnessed the lack of book funds available to schools and libraries. Children would follow me into the parking lot after my presentation, begging for a book they couldn't afford while teachers and librarians scrambled to find funds for even a single copy. I came across many a teacher who took the money out of his/her own pocket just so the kids could have the book in their library.

It was this disturbing trend that prompted me to establish the Kids Need to Read project as a way to fight back. It is our dream to fill library shelves with great books so that no child lacks for amazing stories to inspire their imaginations.

From Co-founder Nathan Fillion:

Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I’m sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there, ready to have their imaginations lit on fire, excited and wanting to read, and facing naked shelves in their school or local libraries. Rather than complain or wait till the system stops failing our nation’s children, this is a matter I feel we must take into our own hands. There are children, right now, waiting – wanting to read. What shall we tell them?

I support Kids Need To Read, because it fosters a desire to learn, the process of self-improvement, and the chance for children’s minds to grow. What will you do?