Photo: Room to Read library, Kampon Chhnang, Cambodia PRESS RELEASE
Greenwich Chapter of Room
to Read Rallies for Reading
The Greenwich Chapter of Room
to Read is presenting “Rally for Reading”, the first in a series
of authors’ breakfasts on June 16th at Greenwich Country
Day School.
Patricia McCormick, who wrote Sold, is the first
author to be featured. McCormick spent a month in India and Nepal tracing
the steps of a girl from a poor isolated village in the foothills of
the Himalayas to the red-light district of Calcutta. Sold was
a National Book Award finalist and earned the Quill Award and Booklist
Editor’s Choice Award. The breakfast will start at 8:30am and tickets
are $25 each. To purchase tickets or for more information please contact
Stephanie Barrett at 637-3343 or dsbaret@aol.com. Tickets will also be available at
the door.
Room to Read, a non-profit
organization based in San Francisco builds schools, libraries, and computer
labs, funds girls’ scholarships and publishes local language children’s
books in developing countries. The organization has built 765 schools,
7,040 libraries, published 327 original local language children’s
books, and funded more than 6,817 long-term girls’ scholarships in
developing countries such as Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Nepal,
India, Bangladesh, Zambia and South Africa.
For more information on Room
to Read, please go to www.roomtoread.org
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