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Top Authors Join Forces To Help Refugees

logan — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:51:00 +0000

What do the authors of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Princess Diaries, the mega-bestsellers Goosebumps (350 million+ sold) and The Baby-sitters Club (175 million+ sold), the Newbery medal-winning Dicey's Song and Out of The Dust, and the National Book Award-winning them have in common?

They are among the incredible contributors to our new book, What You Wish For: A Book For Darfur! I am thrilled to share with you the exciting news about the book, and hope you will help us in a very specific way to make it a huge success. Working with the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, we will be using 100% of our proceeds to fund libraries for the 250,000 Darfuris living in refugee camps in eastern Chad.

What You Wish For: A Book For Darfur features stories and poems about wishes by some of the top talent writing for children and young adults: Alexander McCall Smith, Meg Cabot, R.L. Stine, Ann M. Martin, Cynthia Voigt, Karen Hesse, Joyce Carol Oates, Cornelia Funke, Nikki Giovanni, John Green, Nate Powell, Gary Soto, Jeanne DuPrau, Francisco X. Stork, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sofia Quintero, and Jane Yolen. All have contributed their writing for free to support this cause. Advocate, actress, and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow has written a moving Foreword based on her 13 visits to Darfur and Chad, and we are honored to include a statement by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres.

All that the book is missing right now is you. We will be printing the names of 1,000 supporters in the book, and I hope you will strongly consider being one of them and helping to tell as many people as possible about this opportunity. By

What You Wish For: A Book For Darfur will be released in September by Penguin's imprint G.P. Putnam's Sons. You can already

If you have any questions about the book, or ideas or contacts for publicity, please contact us. Thank you for your continued support. We have been working on this book for two years behind the scenes, and we are so excited to finally share it with you.

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International Day of the Girl Child + Books

logan — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:31:27 +0000

Today is the first ever International Day of the Girl Child (. As you may know, in the Darfuri refugee camps in eastern Chad, formal education ends at primary school. Because girls do not have an opportunity to attend secondary school in the camps, they are at a greater risk for very early marriage. This is one of the reasons our , girls in the camp might be able to focus on their education a little longer and avoid the dangers of early marriage.

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Announcing Our First Refugee Camp Library

logan — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:36:09 +0000

Our most exciting news ever! Click here to read the details of the first refugee camp library funded by our charity anthology, What You Wish For. More than 19,000 Darfuri refugees in eastern Chad will gain access to books targeted to their interests and reading skills!

Pennsylvania School Librarians Recognize Darfur Anthology "What You Wish For"

logan — Thu, 31 May 2012 21:25:12 +0000

More recognition for What You Wish For! Our Darfur charity anthology is included in the Best Story Collection category of the 2011 Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Young Adult Top Ten or so Fiction Titles! Thank you, Pennsylvania, and congratulations to our fantastic authors!

What You Wish For is available now wherever books are sold, and one online bookseller, Better World Books, will even donate their profits to our refugee camp library project when you

Darfur Book Nominated for Teen Award

logan — Wed, 30 May 2012 06:39:10 +0000

What You Wish For, our collection of short stories and poems raising funds for Darfuri refugee camp libraries, has been nominated for the

What Book Should I Buy An Aspiring Writer?

logan — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:53:45 +0000

What You Wish For is now the perfect holiday gift for aspiring writers ages 13+. Readers have a chance to get their own unpublished manuscripts critiqued by renowned literary agents and authors, in an essay contest we just announced at bookwish.org/contest. A 500-word essay about a short story in What You Wish For is all that separates six winners from getting feedback on their own writing from:

Laura Langlie, literary agent for Meg Cabot
Nancy Gallt, literary agent for Jeanne DuPrau
Brenda Bowen, literary agent and editor of Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal winner Out of the Dust
Ann M. Martin, winner of the Newbery Honor for A Corner of the Universe
Francisco X. Stork, winner of the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award for The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Cynthia Voigt, winner of the Newbery Medal for Dicey's Song and the Newbery Honor for A Solitary Blue

Essays are due Feb. 1, 2012, so there's plenty of time for gift recipients to enter. Essay contest winners will have six months to submit young adult or middle grade manuscripts for critique, so it's okay if they haven't written them, yet. See bookwish.org/contest for full details about the contest.

What You Wish For is a collection of short stories and poems about wishes from 18 all-star writers: Meg Cabot, Jeanne DuPrau, Cornelia Funke, Nikki Giovanni, John Green, Karen Hesse, Ann M. Martin, Alexander McCall Smith, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joyce Carol Oates, Nate Powell, Sofia Quintero, Gary Soto, R.L. Stine, Francisco X. Stork, Cynthia Voigt, Jane Yolen. With a Foreword by Mia Farrow. All contributed their writing for free so that we could donate 100% of our proceeds to the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, to develop libraries in Darfuri refugee camps.

What You Wish For received a starred review in the American Library Association's Booklist magazine.

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SAGE Publications Supports Library for Ghana Orphans

logan — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:36:41 +0000

We are thrilled to report that our upcoming project to build a library for AIDS orphans in Ghana has received support from a major international publisher,

We'll be posting lots of photos and details when the project launches, and providing ways for everyone to get involved. Meanwhile, a huge thanks to

Donate a Brick to Build a Refugee Camp Library

logan — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:15:56 +0000

For just $2 you can make a tangible and long-lasting difference in the lives of thousands of Darfuri refugees. For $2 you can fund one of the 5,000 bricks we need to build a library in a refugee camp in Chad. Whether you give one brick or one hundred, you will be making a real difference. Please visit our new library builder site to participate. You can leave a message for the public and donate in honor of your favorite author or a special book lover in your life. Tell your friends and, together, we can make it to 5,000 and build a library.

Videos Showing Our Impact

logan — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:43:33 +0000

Watch videos below. To help demonstrate the impact our donors are having, and to show what is really happening in education in the refugee camps in eastern Chad, we sent a Flip camcorder and memory stick to our field partner CORD. The many videos that came back far exceed our expectations, and we'll be sharing them gradually over the next several weeks.

We begin with three videos inside English language classes in the Bredjing and Treguine Refugee Camps, showing the Headway textbooks our donors helped to purchase, and an interview with the Head Teacher in one of the schools in Bredjing, who is also a major force behind the English program. Watch below and be sure to subscribe to our CORD's Education Programme Manager with four years' experience in the daily challenges and triumphs of education in these camps.