Townsend Press is pleased to make selected books and materials available at no charge. Following are eight different offers:
If your school participates in the National School Lunch Program, we’ll send you two sets of the first 15 books in The Bluford Series (30 books in all). In addition, we’ll send you five copies of seven other paperbacks (Animal Rescue; Letters My Mother Never Read; Everyday Heroes; Great Stories of Suspense and Adventure; Abraham Lincoln; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and Making the Most of Your Life).
To receive the books, you must contact us by mail—not by e-mail. Send a letter to:
Bluford Books Coordinator
Townsend Press Book Center
439 Kelley Drive
West Berlin, NJ 08091
Your letter should indicate just how you will use the books at your school, and the letter must be signed by the media specialist (or the literacy coach) and the principal. There is a limit of one order per school.
Upon request, we’ll send you 10 copies of one of our adult mentor books (you specify which title you want): Brother to Brother: Black Men Speak to Young Black Men; Sister to Sister: Black Women Speak to Young Black Women; and Voces Latinas: Hispanic Adults Speak to Hispanic Young People.
To receive the books, contact us by mail on school or college letterhead—not e-mail. Send your letter to:
Mentoring Books Coordinator
Townsend Press Book Center
439 Kelley Drive
West Berlin, NJ 08091
Your letter of request should indicate which of the three books you want and how you will use the books. The letter must be signed by you and your principal or department chair.
Note: Free PDFs of all three of our mentor books are available now. Click each title to download a copy of Brother to Brother, Sister to Sister, or Voces Latinas.
Upon request, we’ll send you up to 500 copies of our book, La Vida Real: True Stories of Latino Students Today. Estimates are that more 45 million Latino people now live in the US—and that population is eager for stories about Latino students.
To receive the books, you must contact us by mail—not e-mail. Send your letter to:
La Vida Real Coordinator
Townsend Press Book Center
439 Kelley Drive
West Berlin, NJ 08091
We’ll initially send you ten copies of the book to review with your colleagues. If you decide to adopt the text for your students, you can e-mail us indicating the quantity desired and your distribution plan. We’ll then send the books at no charge.
Three Keys to Doing Well in School, a concise and practical guide to student success, is available as a free download. Click here for your copy.
If you are a teacher (from middle school through college) who wants a set of reading motivation posters and a copy of the booklet 60 Good Books to Read, e-mail your request to posters@townsendpress.com. Tell us how and where you intend to use the posters, and we’ll send you a set of eight, along with the booklet, at no charge.
If you are a college reading teacher who uses any of our Ten Steps books, you can receive at no charge one book from the Townsend Library and Bluford Books for every Ten Steps reading book you order from us. E-mail your request to Customer Service at cs@townsendpress.com
If you are a reading instructor in a U.S. college and have never used a Townsend Press reading book in one of your courses, we’ll send you, at no charge, enough copies of either a TEN STEPS reading book or GROUNDWORK FOR COLLEGE READING for you to use with your students in one class. E-mail your request to Customer Service at cs@townsendpress.com.
If you are working in a poverty-level school (in grades 6 or above), or with a youth service organization such as PAL or Big Brothers Big Sisters, or a juvenile detention facility, a homeless or women’s shelter, or comparable social service organization with limited funding, and you want Bluford and selected Townsend Library books, send a request in writing to:
Townsend Press Book Center
439 Kelley Drive
West Berlin, NJ 08091
See a partial list of organizations that have received free TP books.
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