Here’s a holiday gift idea that will keep on giving… Support literacy for our students by making a donation to GCPS’ “fleet” of Book Mobiles!
The two well-stocked Book Mobiles are called Pow! and Explore! to match their brightly colored exterior designs. The converted school buses drive neighborhood routes in six clusters— Central Gwinnett, Discovery, Meadowcreek, Norcross, Shiloh, and South Gwinnett— to encourage summer reading. During the school year, the specially renovated buses visit Gwinnett schools for literacy events, school parades, and other school-sponsored events. For these events, the Book Mobile is stocked with new books— purchased with donations or provided by sponsors— that students can take home for free to add to their own personal library. To date, 53,000 schoolchildren have received a new book through this program!
You can help put books in students’ hands in one of three ways (or all of them!)…
Donate to the designated Book Mobile fund maintained by the Gwinnett County Public Schools Foundation.
Purchase books from our Amazon Book Mobile Wish List. Purchased books will be shipped directly to GCPS to replenish the Book Mobiles’ stock of “giveaway” books
Donate new, unused books to the Book Mobiles with pre-approval from district staff. Send an email to bookmobile@gcpsk12.org or call 678-301-6431 regarding book donations.
Here are some book suggestions
for the kids on your gift-giving list…
Check out these book recommendations for elementary students and learn more about reading instruction in grades K-5. Our media specialists also say you can’t go wrong with award-winning books like Newbery (best writing) and Caldecott (best illustration) medal winners and honored books in the Coretta Scott King and Pura Belpré awards. You also might consider picks from“best of” lists like the Notable Children’s Books Listcurated by the American Library Association and School Library Journal’s Best Books of 2019 list. The lists include picture books, chapter books, books for the middle grades, graphic novels, young adult novels, non-fiction, digital media, and audiobooks and recordings for kids. Reading Rocket shares this list of recommended books arranged by theme for young readers. And, this list of 250 popular books will give you plenty of ideas for little book lovers from birth to age 5.