A Lasting World sent photographs and messages after Yorkville Intermediate School teacher sent more than 1,000 books as part of a school book drive.
Yorkville Intermediate School sent 1,008 used books to Appalachia Kentucky, and the rural community without a formal library recently sent back its gratitude. The books were donated in December courtesy of a book drive that Yorkville Intermediate School Specialist Karen Gottschalk conducts every year. She started te book drive back in 1996 as a way to get children to start reading again. “It amazes me to know how many kids don’t know nursery rhymes, how many kids don’t read anymore, and don’t have an interest to read. I just wanted kids to have access to books,” Gottschalk said. When Gottschalk first started the book drive, she donated 890 books to the Head Start location in Yorkville, and then allowed each student at Yorkville …
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Yorkville Intermediate School 5th graders read to the preschoolers after collecting 1,279 used books in an annual drive.
Given a choice among four books, Ethan chose to have The Nose Book read to him when Yorkville Intermediate School 5th graders visited his Head Start class. Ethan, a preschooler, sat at a child-sized table with 5th grader Scott Stepens as Scott read the book quickly and efficiently, holding it so Ethan could see the pictures. Scott's class, led by Athena Stewart, read to Two Rivers Head Start classes Thursday to cap off a used book drive organized around Character Counts Week and Make a Difference Day. The book drive collected 1,279 books — 1,008 of which were donated to a coal-mining town in Kentucky through an organization called A Lasting World. Yorkville Intermediate School Learning Specialist Karen Gottschalk started the drive in 1996 …
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