The Guys Lit Wire Book Fair - 2011

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Important news: The Guys Lit Wire team have opened up the wish list for their third annual Book Fair.

Every year Guys Lit Wire asks book lovers everywhere to help them donate books to teenagers that just do not have the literary resources a lot of us grew up with. In its first year they bought books to make a library for young offenders and last year they sent books to two under privileged schools and hopefully those books. This year they’re supporting a school in Washington which has just one book for every student in the school. Yeah...

You can see the size of their library in a video that one member of staff made, when she decided to actively ask for help stocking the library. I probably have more books in my house than they do in their school. One of the organisers, Coleen at Chasing Ray, explains why this school was chosen if you need any more information.

GLW have put together an online wish list at Powells, with input from members of the school that will benefit. If you have a little bit of money available this month and you think you might want to purchase a book, or two off the wish list I know this school would appreciate it.

The wish list will be open until May 13th 2011 and it has tons of cool title on it. All the instructions on how to donate can be found in the introduction post.

I made my donation last night. Just a note: Trying to use the check out with Paypal option proved so difficult that I just used the regular Checkout button. Turns out Powells will let you pay with Paypal through that option any way when you get to the payment tab.