Barnes & Noble Helps Create Holiday Magic for 22 KNTR Organizations
By Denise Gary Photographs © Denise Gary Thanks to the enthusiastic assistance of two local Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Kids Need to Read recently provided several thousand books to twenty-two organizations on our waiting list. Organizations on the list included fourteen schools, four mental health treatment centers, a juvenile detention center, an afterschool program, a […]
Reading Revolution: Stupendous Student SOFTWIRE Presentation
Written by Denise Gary Photographs © Denise Gary Video © James Blasingame The Kids Need to Read “Reading Revolution” program continued at ASU Preparatory Academy (Phoenix, Arizona) with an incredible student presentation in November. The students’ projects were based on their studies of The Softwire series, written by KNTR Founder PJ Haarsma. Teachers at ASU […]
Kids Sign Reading Pledge Pumpkins at ASU Prep Fall Festival
Written by Denise Gary Photographs © Denise Gary Sometimes life delivers the most unexpected pleasures. When we agreed to run a booth at ASU Preparatory Academy’s Fall Festival, of course, our thought was to do what we do – give books to kids. It was suggested that the kids sign reading pledges for the books […]
SARRC Volunteers “Book Up” New KNTR Office
Written by Denise Gary Photographs © Robert Gary, Denise Gary, and Steven Gary You wanna see focus? You wanna see dedication? You wanna see awesome-ness? Well, just host the kids of Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center’s (SARRC) GoodDeedWorks volunteer team at your business or organization and watch the magic flow! We recently hosted the […]
KNTR and ASU Youth Literacy Initiative Kickoff was “Out of this World”
Written by Denise Gary Photographs © Bruce Matsunaga Kids Need to Read (KNTR) and Arizona State University (ASU) have been working together with ASU Preparatory Academy (ASU Prep) in Phoenix, Arizona to inspire a Reading Revolution! The project, which launched in September with a Skype video conference between the middle school students of ASU Prep […]