How Reading Helps
Why is reading so important in this day and age? With television to give us our news, DVD's and the internet to keep us entertained, who needs to read?
The answer ....is everyone.
A book can awaken a child's mind and change the course of their future. Teaching children to develop a love of reading and a passion for life-long learning can change the world.
The benefits of reading extend throughout the course of life; from enhancing skills that can help improve an employment situation, to maintaining mental sharpness in the twilight of life and even saving lives. The value of of reading has no measure.
Books saved our Founder's life. When Glenn Toby was eight years old, he, his mother and older brother were evicted from their Brooklyn, New York apartment and made to live on the streets, on subways or find warmth on hotel hallway floors. Reading allowed him to travel to foreign and distant places; reading allowed him to travel beyond his reality.
For all of these reasons, we generously offer age appropriate reading lists as an avenue to develop and continue the life long habit of reading. Our lists have been hand picked to offer the most benefit for each of the age groups. Our lists have been carefully examined and approved by our Director of Education; Linda Allen.
Kids' Corner
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Teens Reading List• A Lawyers Life by Johnnie Cochran with David Fisher• Greenspan: The Man Behind the Money by Justin Martin • The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene • Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir by Vernon E., Jr. Jordan, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Vernon E. Jordan Jr. SEE THE FULL LIST (PDF FORMAT) |
Adults Reading List• 30-day mental diet: The way to a better life by Willis Hayes Kinnear• Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte • Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin • The Bible • The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? by Rick Warren SEE THE FULL LIST (PDF FORMAT) |