Annual Activities: Our annual activities include two field trips to Wardlaw Elementary School to read to the primary classes (Kindergarden and 1st graders). One is in the Fall (this year we did it for Halloween) and one is in time to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday on March 2 - nationally known as "Read Across America."

Additionally, we sponsor a school-wide, book-gift drive for homeless children at Christmas, bring books to children in homeless shelters. We, also, sponsor a book donation program from our students to provide a needy elementary school with books.

In the spring, we wear Dr. Seuss "Cat in the Hats" and read Dr. Seuss books to the children.

We've also begun "Book-Talking" to the English classes, to promote various novels. This year, as our first year and since it was at the end of the year, the Bukz members "Book-Talked" novels the English students would be reading next year in their classes.

• LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audio Books! Try something different with your IPod!
• Get started with a download of Microsoft's Free e-Book Reader. Then, download and install a free dictionary so that you can "look up" words you may not know while you read. Now, you're ready to download e-Books that are in Reader format. Save them to the "My Library" sub-folder MS Reader installed in your "My Documents" folder. We have found MS Reader to work on Win 95, too.
• If you own MS Office 2000 or later, update your Office with an "addin" that can turn your MS Word Documents and original manuscripts into electronic book format with the free MS Reader addin.
• University of Virginia's E-Text Archive, including a free e-book library with ebooks in MS Reader file formats.
• Project Gutenberg w/over 16,000 free electronic book
• University of Pennsylvania's Index of Online Books
• FREE online literature at Bibliomania
• Classic Reader: Free Classic Books Online
• Luminarium Medieval, Renaissance and Early 17th Century English Literature
• Online Literature Library
• U.C. Berkeley Digital Medieval & Classical Library.

Our Mission: To Promote Reading!

Club Advisors: Mary Poeck, IMC/Librarian & Major Woolard, Faculty Member-English Dept.

More Links for Book Lovers

• Librarians Index to the Internet
• Learn about Childrens Book Awards & Other Literary Prizes
• Folklore & Mythology from the University of Pittsburgh
• Author Yellow Pages
• American Library Association (ALA)
• ALA Author Websites
• New York Public Library's Teen Link
• Teen Reads - Authors, Reviews, etc.
• Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
• Illuminated Books Project