By Horace Assar, Princess Ganutan, Arjot Pabla, Demisha Simmons-Price, Courier Staff Writers

Photo by Carla Colburn

The James Logan “Of Books and Pens” club has been working to host a book drive on the school campus. We sat down with the club’s co-presidents Simran Kalkat and Sukhmani Batra and asked them a few questions about the book drive and the people involved.

Q: What is the book drive about?

A: We collect books from students and give them to other students who are in need of books.

Q: Have you organized the book drive?

A: We did one last year which was a big success. We gave 120 books away in only three minutes. So we are doing it again at the school library a week before winter break and planning to do it at the union city library

Q: How did you organize it?

A: We started collecting books two years ago and we wanted to start at the time but we did not do one until last year.

Q: What will the book drive achieve?

A: We want students to read books over winter break and give books back to the community and share the love.

Q: Who else is involved?

A: Mr. Ellison the US History and LGBT studies teacher is the club adviser. Ms.Colburn and Ms.Chakrabarti at the James Logan library and some at the Union city library. Also we received a lot of support from teachers.

 

If you want to read during Winter break attend the book drive. There is a wide selection of books to choose from, but make sure to come by early because books might run out fast.