Bookmobile School Locations

On September 19th, The American Red Cross of Greater Indianapolis, along with volunteers Andra, Barb, and Karen, kicked off the first Bookmobile stop of the year. The Bookmobile program provides three free books to youth in grades 2-5 in Selected Schools. The Bookmobile Program is funded through Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) grant, private donations, and volunteer assistance from Sallie Mae.

Click on the Link below and find the locations of schools Bookmobile is visiting in September/October/November:

http://www.communitywalk.com/indianapolis/in/map/1443461

Here are the dates in which the Bookmobile will set off to Greater Indianapolis Schools to give a free book to children in grades 2-5:
September: 20th, 26th, 27th, 29th.
October: 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 25th, 26th, 28th.
November: 1st, 2nd, 10th, 11th, 15th, 17th, 18th.

Next Rounds for the Bookmobile will be in January/February and March/April.
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Winter Bookmobile Coming Soon

The Winter run of the American Red Cross of Greater Indianapolis' Bookmobile will begin in a few weeks! Many of our bookmobile schools have already been scheduled (see sidebar at left). This season we are excited to be bringing our new Scrubby Bear program out with us as we travel from school to school to share this exciting disease information with first grade students. We look forward to seeing everyone soon!

Bookmobile 2009!

The American Red Cross of Greater Indianapolis is gearing up for their first Bookmobile visits of the school year at participating IPS schools. The gang is preparing the Bookmobile. . .

Ready Eddie: Hey guys! I just got back from the Bookmobile Room. Wow, we have tons of books! And we still have tons more to unpack!

Confused Connie: That is really exciting! The Red Cross is going to make a lot of money selling books this year!

Prepared Patty: Connie, don't you know anything about the Red Cross Bookmobile? The Red Cross doesn't sell books, they give them away!

Confused Connie: Really? For FREE?

Ready Eddie: Yeah, isn't that cool?

Confused Connie: Wait . . . do the kids get to keep the books, or do they just borrow them, like at the library? The library is free . . .

Prepared Patty: They get to keep the books.

Confused Connie: Forever?

Ready Eddie: Forever.

Confused Connie: That is really cool! How nice of the Red Cross! But . . . what kind of books? They aren't dumb books, are they? Are they . . . about the Red Cross?

Prepared Patty: No silly! We worked really hard to research what kinds of books kids are into.

Ready Eddie: Yeah! We have stuff like Goosebumps and Junie B. Jones and The Magic Treehouse and Hannah Montana . . .

Confused Connie: I LOVE Hannah Montana!

Prepared Patty: I'm more into Goosebumps. I've read all the Goosebumps. Hannah Montana is not very prepared, Connie.

Ready Eddie: . . . and books about sports and science and comic book characters . . .

Prepared Patty: We better go get the Bookmobile ready! We have lots of books to distribute!

Confused Connie: Okay! Bye guys! I can't wait to start giving out free books to the kids at our bookmobile schools!

Ready Eddie: . . . and classics and joke books and Cheetah Girls and Hardy Boys graphic novels . . .

Round 1 Finished!

As the holidays roll in the Bookmobile pulls in for a pit stop. We've finished our first round of book distributions, seeing over 4,000 kids and promoting disaster preparedness. We want to thank all the schools for your cooperation during our visits and we look forward to seeing everyone 2 more times in the winter and spring of 2009 (featuring out brand new vehicle). Remember, our goal is to make you happy, so let us know what books you would like to see added to our collection. We will do out best to ind what everyone wants. Also, we'd like to give a special thanks to School #54 for sending us cards. We love getting feedback from everyone and appreciate the time put into to making these works of art!