Siblings donate various books to high school

(NewsNation) — When Haili Smith, 15, was rising up, she observed that there weren’t plenty of books that included characters who regarded like her.

So when she lastly did discover books that did, she and her sibling, Brooke, 12, of San Francisco, determined that they needed to share them with everybody.

The 2 based “Books Like Me,” a nonprofit group that donates various youngsters’s books to varsities. In response to their web site, bookslikemeinc.org, since Aug. 12, 2020, “Books Like Me” has donated greater than 10,000 books to 300 colleges.

Haili and Brooke began by accumulating various youngsters’s ebook donations from household, associates and “some caring people” they by no means met, the web site states.

Now, Brooke stated, they discover books from shops equivalent to Barnes and Noble, or on-line. Typically lecturers will counsel books as effectively, Brooke stated.

“I feel it’s such an vital factor to do, as a result of in case you don’t see your self in books, you gained’t need to learn them,” Haili stated. “Each time I did discover books that I noticed myself in and that represented me, it made me need to hold studying.”

To assist “Books Like Me” proceed to develop, you’ll be able to donate by Venmo, an Amazon Wishlist or PayPal.