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NEED TO READ BOOK CLUB
Mabry
Middle School
"Reading
for Others" Service Project
Inman,
SC
PRESS RELEASE from Mabry
Middle
School, Inman,
SC
Saturday,
May 10,
2008
11:30am - 12:30 pm
Spartanburg Soup
Kitchen
Second Presbyterian Church gym
438 North Church Street,
Spartanburg
"It's all about kids
making a difference through reading!" That is what the eighteen Mabry
Middle School Need to Read Book Club members will discover through hands-on
experience Saturday, May 10th as they distribute new books to
children at the Spartanburg Soup Kitchen. Sponsored by parents,
relatives, and teachers, the Mabry students read to earn money for this "Reading
for Others" service project. In addition to independent reading, this
year the Need to Read Book Club organization encouraged the Mabry students to
share their love of reading, earning service hours towards purchasing
books. The students made the daily trek to read with 16 kindergarten
children from the Spartanburg Parks
and Recreation Center AYC program at Inman Elementary.
Congratulations to Mabry
Middle School Need to Read Book Club for serving 40 service hours, reading over
38,000 pages, and earning $1,380.30 to buy new books to distribute to children
at the Spartanburg Soup Kitchen.
The Need to Read Club is not new in District One Schools,
where Holly Springs-Motlow Elementary began the first club chapter in the fall
of 2006 with the expert help of founder Emily Conrad, her mother Catherine, and
teacher sponsors Chris Chapman and Leith Murph. When Taylor Brock and
Mary Farmer, fresh faces to Mabry Middle suggested beginning a Need to Read
Book Club Chapter at their new school, the idea spread like fever and now the
group, which meets monthly, has over a dozen members with many more asking when
they can join next year.
The Need to Read Book Club is a nonprofit organization whose
mission is to encourage reading and community service among kids. It
began in 2004 when Emily Conrad, then a 7th grader at Spartanburg
Day School, decided to take her
love of reading to a new level. What started as a personal reading incentive
idea, opened the door for thousands of children to experience the real
difference reading makes. "These teens are our community's rising leaders. I am
so proud of their hard work through reading and enthusiasm to help others!"
Conrad says.
Please encourage the effort of the Mabry
Middle School chapter of the Need
to Read Book Club by sharing their story with our community.
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