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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 3/5/2004 |
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FOR INFORMATION, CONTACT: Judy Everett Ramos, 817-399-2025 |
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| Books on tables, the floor and hallways - that's what attendees will find Saturday, March 6 at the HEB Better Readers Books Swap. HEB students collected 23,163 books for the annual event, which means that's how many coupons will be redeemed for books. The Book Swap is from 9am - 3pm at the Pat May Center, across the parking lot from Pennington Field, in Bedford.
Central Administrators picked up the books at schools Friday and transported them to the Pat May Center, where volunteers sorted the books by Children's Primary, Juvenile, Adult Fiction, and Adult Non-Fiction categories. The public is encouraged to attend the Book Swap. Anyone who brings books to swap will receive coupons with which to shop. Don't have books to swap? Attendees can purchase books for 50 cents and one dollar, with proceeds benefitting PTA scholarships. Students came up with the idea for the Book Swap three years ago, and the District, along with the PTA, organized it to promote reading for pleasure. A survey of HEB youth in the spring of 2000 revealed that only 18 percent of students said they read for pleasure. The annual Book Swap aims to change that statistic. The elementary and secondary school that donates the most books will receive a traveling trophy, which they can display for one year, when it is given to the next winner. The current winners are Meadow Creek Elementary and Central Junior High. |
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