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U.S. Department of Education, First Book and Random House Children's Books Launch 2008 Summer Reading Initiative

Posted by: on May 09, 2008 2:18:37 PM
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings; Wendy Bhagat, senior vice president, First Book; and Heidi Kilgras, editorial director, Random House Children's Books Tuesday announced the availability of free books through the 2008 Summer Reading Initiative. The initiative marks the first stage of a national distribution of over 850,000 free, new Random House children's books to schools, libraries and literacy organizations serving low-income youth across the country.

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