Making Books Available To Todays Youth

King's Books is the largest used and new independent bookstore in the South Puget Sound, and they are placing much needed books into the classrooms of Tacoma. Owner Sweet Pea Flaherty began the Books For Schools Program in October of last year. Previous years, Kings held a books arts auction to help raise funds for school libraries (raising most recently $6500), but Sweet Pea wanted to devise a less time intensive plan and born from this urge came the Books For Schools Program.

A Tacoma school is picked each month in need of a book that librarians and teachers are determined to make a part of the curriculum. This title is then featured and offered both in store and online for purchase to donate to the classroom. At the end of the month or when a set of thirty books has been reached, the books find their new home in the school.

It is ideas like this that will help keep real, bound, paper books in the hands of our youth, while school libraries are often met with the obstacle of being underfunded. Help spread the goodness that is literacy and book love.

Also, Kings plays host to a plethora of literary or just plain fun events from open mic night to craft night and is home to the Banned Book Club.