Ethan & Choco's Book Club

Striving to make access to books and reading a core part of the care that kids receive in the hospital, with the premise that literacy support for children fighting cancer and other life-altering conditions can help promote cognitive health and social connections that are part of thriving through treatment and beyond

Thrive Partner Schools

The schools below have partnered with ECBC to lead school-wide book-raising efforts to help us bring new, high-quality books to hospitalized kids at CHOC Children’s Hospital in Orange County. The schools with a red asteric are current SUPER Thrive Partner Schools who are currently committed to annual/ongoing bookraising for ECBC. Our goal is to grow this list so that we have at least 20 schools supporting ECBC annually.

  • Anderson Elementary School
  • Arroyo Elementary School * 
  • Beverly Hills High School
  • Brookhaven Elementary School
  • El Dorado High School * 
  • Fairmont Private School, North Tustin Campus
  • Foothill High School * 
  • Grace Lutheran School
  • Guin Foss Elementary School * 
  • Hewes Middle School * 
  • Hicks Canyon Elementary School * 
  • Laguna Road Elementary School
  • Loma Vista Elementary School
  • McGough Elementary School
  • Myford Elementary School
  • Northcutt Elementary School
  • Orange County Learning Center/Compass Charter School
  • Pacific Elementary School
  • Peters Canyon Elementary School
  • Rossmoor Elementary School
  • Salem Lutheran School
  • St. Cecilia’s School
  • St John’s Lutheran School of Orange
  • St. Paul’s Preschool
  • Tarbut ‘V Torah Community Day School * 
  • Vista Verde School
  • Westpark Elementary School
  • Yorba Linda Middle School

PLEASE join us as a partnering school, especially if you are an Orange County school! The two easiest ways to collect books for ECBC are to incorporate bookraising into these two already-existing school practices:

  1. Hold a new book drive for ECBC as part of your school’s book fair. Click here to access the video on you tube, which can be shared with your students to promote before an upcoming book fair.
  2. Invite parents to purchase books to donate to ECBC as part of your school’s Scholastic Book Club program. Click here to download a cover letter that can be attached to Scholastic Book Order forms.

Thank you to our partner schools, as well as to our many more individual classrooms and teachers, who are working with us to make reading part of patients’ everyday care and lives at CHOC Children’s! We appreciate you so much!

 

Loma Vista’s books!