Books for Kids
Books for Kids
Welcome to the working site for Books for Kids!
Our goal: provide new, top-quality paperback books free of charge to families of children and teens who cannot afford them*. All money will be spent on printing the books. No one but the printer will make any profit.
Here is our tentative book list for Christmas 2017:
Teens
| The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy |
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway |
Tweens, ages 10-12
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain Radar Commandos - Bernard Glemser |
Freckles - Gene Stratton Porter A Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton Porter Man-Eaters of Kumaon - Jim Corbett |
Ages 9 or so
| Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery Black Beauty - Anna Sewell The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling |
Stories - Jack London The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum Bambi - Felix Salten |
Costs, calculations, participation
It costs USD/$2,000 to print 1,000 (soft cover/paperback, 250 page) books. This price varies somewhat with book length.
USD/$12,000 in contributions will fund 6,000 books total: that is, 1,000 copies of each of 6 titles.
A club that contributes USD/$1,200 will get 600 books - 100 copies of each of 6 titles.
Goal: 10 clubs contributing USD/$1,200 each. This will fund 6 of the above 18 titles.
Stretch Goal: 30 clubs contributing USD/$1,200 each. This would fund all of the above 18 titles.
Books to be printed in Michigan and Ontario. Shipping to be coordinated by clubs, members, and partners.
Contact: books@baldwinrotary.org
Web site: baldwinrotary.org/Page/b4k
*Eligibility criteria suited to your community. In Lake County the Department of Human Services specifies the process and criteria that caseworkers/social workers follow and use in referring and verifying each low-income family.