{"id":885002,"date":"2026-10-17T01:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885002\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T01:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:50:11","slug":"editorial-lead-to-read-book-drive-collects-nearly-2000-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885002\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Lead to Read book drive collects nearly 2,000 books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Justin<\/p>\n

President & General Manager<\/p>\n

KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014<\/p>\n

A good book can open a whole new world for a child, and thanks to you, more young readers across Kansas City will have one in their hands. <\/p>\n

Our KMBC 9 Cares for Kids book drive for Lead to Read set a goal to collect 1,000 new and gently used books.<\/p>\n

You helped us nearly double that number with close to 2,000 books collected.<\/p>\n

Thank you to all who donated. <\/p>\n

A special thanks to our KMBC 9 News team for sharing stories during story time and helping spark a love of reading.<\/p>\n

That’s at the heart of Lead to Read KC’s mission: helping children across Kansas City build strong reading skills and a lifelong love of books, with support from caring reading mentors. <\/p>\n

These donated books will help make that possible.<\/p>\n

They’ll reach young readers across our community and stock “Reading is Everywhere” baskets at more than 80 locations.<\/p>\n

To learn how you can donate or become a reading mentor, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We believe every child deserves the chance to become a confident reader. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President & General Manager KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 A good book can open a whole new world for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[371445,8296,48264,223,371444,371448,371443,371447,48266,88,46722,6946,371437,371438,371439,371446,6747,17750,371442,371440,56790,371441,25192],"class_list":["post-885002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-000-books","tag-8296","tag-book-drive","tag-books","tag-books-collected","tag-cares-for-kids","tag-child-literacy","tag-confident-reader","tag-donate-books","tag-entertainment","tag-gently-used-books","tag-kansas-city","tag-kmbc-9","tag-lead-to-read","tag-lead-to-read-kc","tag-lifelong-love","tag-missouri","tag-new-books","tag-reading-is-everywhere","tag-reading-mentors","tag-reading-skills","tag-story-time","tag-young-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}