Hundreds of students in Dallas ISD received books recently, thanks to a local nonprofit, Book Drive for Kids.<\/p>\n
Ms. Patel, the librarian at Casa View Elementary in Dallas, was there to receive the books and get the kids ready for a visit from children’s book author Keka Novales, who wrote the Hola Lola! series about Lola, a girl from Guatemala.<\/p>\n
“This is the first author visit we have had,” Ms. Patel related, “the kids were so attentive and excited.”<\/p>\n
While the 2nd graders learned about writing, the other students cycled through the free book fair to find the perfect new read. <\/p>\n
Book Drive for Kids said it was made possible through partnerships with Frost Bank and Capstone Publishers.<\/p>\n
Book Drive for Kids, a local non-profit, hosts free book fairs for low-income and underserved children. <\/p>\n
They also find new homes for donated books in our local “book deserts”, i.e., areas where book ownership and access are limited.<\/p>\n
According to Michelle Cook, Co-Founder & Executive Director of Book Drive for Kids, the goal of Book Drive for Kids is that every child, regardless of their zip code, can have a home library of at least 20 books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of students in Dallas ISD received books recently, thanks to a local nonprofit, Book Drive for Kids.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,5262],"class_list":["post-438835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-something-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}