We are participating in the Third Unitarian Church Chapter of the 3Rs Project (Reading Reduces Recidivism, a 501-c-3 organization started by quakers at Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting). This chapter collects and delivers books for Dwight Women's Prison and Illinois Youth Center (IYC) in Chicago.
Please bring your books in sealed (twistee, for example) plastic bags because the storage place is a bit damp.) Books will be delivered in June to Dwight so we are collecting those books first. Please hold onto your books for IYC until further notice. Thanks!
*Starred items are appropriate for both IYC and Dwight.
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FOR DWIGHT WOMEN'S PRISON
Suggested Specific Titles:
Cider House Rules
*Protecting your Health and Safety: Prisoner’s Rights
*World Almanac (and book of facts- current issue)
*Autobiography of Malcolm X
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Authors: (some suggestions)
James Patterson, M.H. Clark, Iris Johansen, Dean Koontz, *R.L. Stein – Young Adult, John Grisham, *Richard Wright, Cupcake Brown, Bibi Moore Campbell, Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Gwendoyn Brooks, Maya Angelou, Barack Obama, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Donald Crews (children’s picture book author)
Categories:
*Trades, Art, *Autobiographies, Parenting books, Healthy Eating, Exercise
*Self Help or Second Chance books
*African American Literature
Bi-lingual books and magazines, ESL materials (Spanish/Polish)
*G.E.D. materials, *Preparation for the T.A.B.E. (Tests of Adult Basic Education)
*Young Adult Fiction and Non-Fiction, Romance novels
Picture books for mothers to read to young children (for family visiting room)
Popular Fiction, Oprah’s Recommendations,
Romance and Mystery novels
Reading Circle Books (in order of priority; minimum 8 copies of each):
Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortensen & David Oliver Relin (Leah delivered 8 copies)
A Child Called “It” David Pelzer
A Piece of Cake Cupcake Brown
A Boy Named Dave David Pelzer
Lost Boy David Pelzer
Sounder William H. Armstrong
Diary of Anne Frank, 2nd Release, with additional material by her father
Girl Interrupted Susanna Kaysen
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SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS FOR DONATIONS TO IYC
(5th to 12th grade reading level for Boys)
Books in the Bluford High School series, especially Brothers in Arms. [Someone at TUC can buy these at a discount from the publisher.]
African-American literature
Autobiographies
Books by Roald Dahl such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Big BFG
Fantasy fiction
G.E.D. materials
Fiction
Reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.)
Please bring your books in sealed (twistee, for example) plastic bags because the storage place is a bit damp.) Books will be delivered in June to Dwight so we are collecting those books first. Please hold onto your books for IYC until further notice. Thanks!
*Starred items are appropriate for both IYC and Dwight.
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FOR DWIGHT WOMEN'S PRISON
Suggested Specific Titles:
Cider House Rules
*Protecting your Health and Safety: Prisoner’s Rights
*World Almanac (and book of facts- current issue)
*Autobiography of Malcolm X
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Authors: (some suggestions)
James Patterson, M.H. Clark, Iris Johansen, Dean Koontz, *R.L. Stein – Young Adult, John Grisham, *Richard Wright, Cupcake Brown, Bibi Moore Campbell, Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Gwendoyn Brooks, Maya Angelou, Barack Obama, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Donald Crews (children’s picture book author)
Categories:
*Trades, Art, *Autobiographies, Parenting books, Healthy Eating, Exercise
*Self Help or Second Chance books
*African American Literature
Bi-lingual books and magazines, ESL materials (Spanish/Polish)
*G.E.D. materials, *Preparation for the T.A.B.E. (Tests of Adult Basic Education)
*Young Adult Fiction and Non-Fiction, Romance novels
Picture books for mothers to read to young children (for family visiting room)
Popular Fiction, Oprah’s Recommendations,
Romance and Mystery novels
Reading Circle Books (in order of priority; minimum 8 copies of each):
Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortensen & David Oliver Relin (Leah delivered 8 copies)
A Child Called “It” David Pelzer
A Piece of Cake Cupcake Brown
A Boy Named Dave David Pelzer
Lost Boy David Pelzer
Sounder William H. Armstrong
Diary of Anne Frank, 2nd Release, with additional material by her father
Girl Interrupted Susanna Kaysen
*******************************************************************************************************************
SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS FOR DONATIONS TO IYC
(5th to 12th grade reading level for Boys)
Books in the Bluford High School series, especially Brothers in Arms. [Someone at TUC can buy these at a discount from the publisher.]
African-American literature
Autobiographies
Books by Roald Dahl such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Big BFG
Fantasy fiction
G.E.D. materials
Fiction
Reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.)
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