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Reading Seed Free Book Area FAQ

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The Reading Seed Free Book Area, located the Reading Seed office on Silverlake Road, is full of clean, gently used children’s and young adult books. These books are for reading coaches, other literacy providers, teachers and librarians to give to the students they work with. Books are also given to many local organizations that encourage literacy in people of all ages.

Reading Coaches may give up to one free book per week to each child you work with. Just stop by the Reading Seed office Monday through Friday between 8 am and 4 pm and browse through the Free Book Area for the right books for your students. We ask that you avoid taking all or most of the books from one series, topic, or author. Come often – new titles are added regularly!

Need more than 1 book per student per week? Please talk to a staff member about your request.

Bring back the books your students do not want or give them the classroom or school.

Reading Seed receives most of our free books from Goodwill Industries of Southern Arizona. However, we also receive books from other organizations and individuals. The books are screened for general appropriateness, cleaned, and repaired before being given away.

Reading Seed is always accepting gently used children’s, young adult and adult books. Children’s and young adult books are added to our Lending Library or our Free Book Area. Adult books are given to other local organizations who have requested books from us. Call Reading Seed at 798-0700 for additional information or stop by Reading Seed with your books! We are located at 1920 E. Silverlake Road, #207 in Tucson, Arizona. Unfortunately, we cannot accept encyclopedia sets.

Reading Seed gave away almost 20,000 books last year! Please contact the Library Manager at library@readingseed.org if your organization would like to receive some gently used books. We will do our best to honor your request. First priority is given to adults and children who otherwise would not have books in their homes. Call us at 798-0700 for additional information.

At first I would ask my student if she had read at home and she would hang her head and say no.  She began reading extra books when I told her that if she could read them, she could keep them.  She took her first book home and read it to her kindergarten-age sister.  Since that sister loved it, she read it to her older sister as well. I think she’s up to reading 11 books at different times to different family members. She is loving reading. Now THAT is amazing! — Jo Ann Sawyer-Roof, Reading Coach at Harelson Elementary