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Dear Parents of Grace,
Part of keeping our library a quality and fun resource for our kids is maintaining its collection of updated materials and books kids will want to read. This summer after library inventory, we found lots of books we could – and should – retire, as well as some very well-loved books that could be replaced by a new copy. We also have requests from your kids every week for new books. However, we don’t have a huge budget. Then one day, one of our amazing volunteers had a great idea: a book drive!
Here's how it works:
1. We have an Amazon wish list for Grace’s library. You can drop books into your cart
from our wish list along with a current order and just bring the books to Grace, or make a separate order and have it shipped to: Grace Lutheran School c/o Audrey Whitten 404 E. Glenlord, St. Joseph, MI 49085
2. If you want to make a donation, but maybe not a specific book, we shop at Better World Books, and would appreciate anything you choose to donate in gift certificate form to purchase books from their stock of used books.
3. We would like to recognize and thank you for your donation. If you do send us a book and would like to be recognized, please shoot an email to library@gracestjoseph.org . Share the books title(s) you gifted and the name you would like to have shown in the book, and we will create a label that will be displayed in the book. (If you have books shipped directly to school from Amazon, you can also add the note in the order to save a step.)
Some things to keep in mind:
- Feel free to shop around to save. Especially if you plan to purchase more than one book, consider looking for better prices; you do not have to use Amazon! Right now Target has a sale on books (two for you, one for the library!), and other retailers have similar sales, often around the Christmas shopping season.
- If you do shop on Amazon, you can do double-duty by using Amazon Smile and make a small donation to Grace Lutheran Church at the same time. (It takes about a minute to set up, but then any purchases you make through smile.amazon.com gives back .5% of the sale to Grace! Go to smile.amazon.com and click “Get Started” then search for “Grace Lutheran Church” and scroll until you find St. Joseph, MI.)
- We also do not require new books, although they are nice to have. If you have a gently used copy of something on our list, we’ll gladly accept those as well.
We will continue to monitor the wish list and add to it if books start to come off it. Please encourage your kids to continue to let us know what new books they’d like to see in our library, whether it be the latest in a series they’re reading or a really funny picture book they rented from the local library. Thank you for reading this letter, and thank you for reading to and encouraging your kids to read!
- Grace Librarians
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