During the 2008-2009 school year, GTF supported the Book Trust program for Kemp Elementary School (Bryan) and College Hills Elementary School (College Station). For the coming school year, these schools will again be supported. Book Trust is an independent charity dedicated to helping people learn to love books, at any age or in any culture. Book Trust provides $7.00 a month for each child supported by the program to buy books from the Scholastic catalog, books that help to build a home library. Most children participating in this program have little access to books and reading outside the classroom, and for many, these books are the first and only things they have ever bought and owned. Not only does the Book Trust program encourage and help kids to become better readers, we know from evaluation that many kids take their books home and read with younger brothers and sisters. This is a program that reaches beyond the bounds of the classroom by taking literacy and a love of reading into the home.
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