http://www.kcs.k12tn.net/partners/event ... ybooks.htm

From July 6 to August 7 you can get thou yonder to a Barnes and Noble and donate a book to the Knoxville public schools library. Apparantly we as a school system suck in the book department. so here's he deal.

Go to Barnes and Noble.

Go to information desk.

Ask to see what books schools need.

Pick a book.

buy Book

Pick a school to donate it to or (what i did) tell the kind cash register person to let the school system decide where it goes. They will pick the school library that had their wish list least fulfilled.

Extra step
(And this is the exciting part!!!)

come back to this topic and list your book and why you picked it.

Me start first.

I picked Explore((Discover??) Van Gogh. It's part of a seris of children's encyclopedias. Each volume deals with different subjects ranging from biology, science, and the arts. There's even a mythology one but they sold out of it. Pooh. Anyway It's a sort of biography/style books devoted to Van Gogh's life and paint technique. Every page has a illustration of some sort and is in color. Van Gogh is one of my favorite artists and I thought it was a good thing for some toher kid to read about him growing up.

Great idea! I went by after work last night. What a wish list eh? I must have counted no less than a dozen books about Bush. There was even a request for a Condi Rice bio! I was looking for books that inspired me as a young man, but could not find a single one. I would hope that is because the libraries already have plenty of copies. Also saw several entries that looked suspiciously like someone's personal want list - Kafka's Metamorphasis in graphic novel format? Please, that is going straight into someone's personal collection, not a school library. Manga for a school library? Yeah right.

So anyway, my selection was Farenheit 451. Like Brave New World and 1984, this is a story that has more relevence today than when it was written. The ideas of censorship and media (television) driven population and thought control make the book seem much less a "sci-fi" book...And that is the best example of science fiction, a plausible reality.

Thanks for starting this thread! There are a lot of books on that list to go through, and it makes for an interesting read in and of its self. Your contribution will be tax free also, so come on! Someone treat a needy school library to Hallucinagins or Marijuana Myths!

Grrreat idea!

Heading that way sometime this upcoming week. I'll let you know what I get and why. Hopefully, the school that I tutor at will be on the list.