Thanks for support

From Brooks Elementary School Teachers Carrie Farnum, Kalie Miller, and Lois Kelly:

Brooks Elementary School, a part of Huron Valley Schools, has provided a summer reading program for their students the last four years. Each child ends the school year by taking home a bag of 10 books at their reading level. During the summer once a week the Brooks Book Mobile drives through the attendance area of their students making 11 stops to trade out books so the children can get different books to read for the week. The teachers have found that the students are maintaining or improving their end-of-the-year reading level when they return to school in the fall.

The Brooks teachers who volunteer their time for this program could not do it every summer without some incredible community help. In the spring, Wal-Mart provided funding to support our talent show to raise money to get additional books. Meijer gave us gift cards to purchase more books. Leo’s Coney Island was the sight of our Book Mobile kick-off, gave us a percentage of the profits one evening a month during the school year, and gave the readers ice cream every time they reached a reading goal during the summer. Every week Szott Chrysler/Dodge automobile dealership allowed us to use one of their fabulous vans to haul all the boxes of books.

We could not run our program without the very generous support of these special community leaders. Thank you for helping make the Brooks Book Mobile a success.