ECBC is so grateful for having received 22 new terrific books for teens for our gifting library program at CHOC from the Foothill Ehan & Choco Club! More importantly, thank you Taylor Kubaska and Aya McNamee for starting the club this year — this was our first high school club! Hopefully after you graduate, others will follow in your steps as co-presidents, as it is really awesome to receive support at the high school level and to receive book donations that target teens!
If there are other teens out there who are interested in supporting reading for hospitalized kids/teens and starting an Ethan & Choco’s Club at their high school, please email ECBC at Ali@ECbookclub.com.
Thank you Foothill Ethan & Choco Club for your awesome donation, and a huge thank you to Riley and Aya for taking the initiative to found this club!
Tarbut V’Torah just completed another book drive for ECBC, which makes this the third year in a row that TVT has collected and donated approximately 200 new, high-quality books (almost one book per student). Each year since we launched ECBC, Tarbut has run a book drive alongside their Scholastic Book Fair — with the students doing the advertising, promoting, and buying of the books. They are such an amazing model for how kids and schools can get involved and make a difference for other kids in our community,! @e need more schools like TVT in order to build a sustainable library and reading program at CHOC Children’s Hospital!
These awesome girls just started an Ethan & Choco’s Club at Foothill High School — the first of hopefully many school-based clubs to support ECBC and reading for hospitalized kids! The three of us met this afternoon, and the girls decided to focus their club’s efforts on building the teen part of our library — including the lending and gifting libraries, themed books for teens at various events such as our upcoming Books for Treats, and Read+Think+Thrive boxes that are curated specifically for teens. They also are excited to work on creating an Amazon Wish List of high-interest books specifically for teens — which we really need help with! How great would it be for them to draw from their own reading interests and experiences as well as the reading interests of their peers to create this list! There is a significant number of adolescents and young adults at CHOC, and it will be great to have some targeted support to build this important part of our library!
