April 2025

Sponsor students to attend the iconic YA book fest

Help Us Give Students the Spring Break They Deserve On May 3rd, 2025, we're taking students to Santa Monica for YALLWEST, an annual book festival featuring New York Times bestselling authors along with local and acclaimed young adult and middle grade writers, plus notable TV, film, video game, and comic creators. We're bringing busloads of children from Compton, South Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, and other underserved Los Angeles neighborhoods. For many, a trip to Santa Monica for YALLWEST will be their only spring break. Between the political climate and immigration crackdowns, times are tense for children in these communities. Let's give them a memorable day, filled with rock star writers, inspiring artists, and unforgettable books.  We need your support to cover transportation, lunch, tote bags, and bundles of books by authors at the event. Please consider sponsoring a student to attend. Sponsor a Student Volunteers Needed - May 10th While Access Books frequently serves schools in Los Angeles County, we recognize that our Inland Empire neighbors also struggle to fill library shelves. Emmerton Elementary in San Bernardino needs our help, so we're taking a field trip. Please join us for a day of mural painting and book processing. If you can't join us, be sure to tell your IE friends about this volunteer opportunity! Volunteer at Emmerton Spring Impact We've given more than 59,000 books this semester! From book drives to book clubs, library refurbishments to fire relief books, we're spreading books like seeds all over Southern California. The rain is finally abating and we can see literacy blooming in our schools and communities. And we're not done yet! We have eight remaining service events on our calendar for the spring. Join us! As always, thanks to our amazing army of volunteers, small but mighty staff, and generous donors. We couldn't do it without you! Volunteer Donate Copyright © 2025 Access Books, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you've volunteered with us in the past or have donated to support our cause. Our mailing address is: Access Books PO Box 64951 Los Angeles, CA 90064 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.