Educate Youth

Buddy Reading is an integral part of Educate Youth’s summer program. Each summer, students spend 30 minutes each day reading in small groups with a staff member. Each time students finish a book, they earn 5 cents per page, and have the opportunity to keep their book, allowing them to build their own personal libraries! Students may also elect to participate in Buddy Reading in the H.O.P.E. After School Program once all school work is completed.

Summer 2024

Who Was Jackie Robinson? ~ Gail Herman, Nubia: Real One ~ L.L. McKinney, Who Is Muhammed Ali? ~ James Buckley Jr., The Hate U Give ~ Angie Thomas, Ain’t Burned All the Bright ~ Jason Reynolds & Jason Griffin, This Girl Is On Fire ~ Alicia Keys, Beautifully Different ~ Peg Button., The Boy In The Black Suit ~ Jason Reynolds, Gregor the Overlander ~ Suzanne Collins, Gifted Hands ~ Ben Carson & Cecil Murphy, Confido ~ Rhonda Palmer, Long Way Down ~ Jason Reynolds, Diary of an All American Muslim Girl ~ Nadine Jolie Courtney, Inside Out & Back Again ~ Thanhha Lai

What We Read

2023-2024 Academic Year

What We Read

Girl on Fire ~ Alicia Keys & Andrew Weiner, Ain’t Burned All the Bright ~ Jason Reynolds, The Hate U Give ~ Angie Thomas, The Poet X ~ Elizabeth Acevedo, Captain Underpants & The Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks A Lot ~ Dav Pilkey, Franny K Stein’s Frantastic Voyage ~ Jim Benton, Nubia: Real One ~ L.L. McKinney, Beautifully Different ~ Peg Button, Monster ~ Walter Dean Myers, The Girl Death Left Behind ~ Lurlene McDaniel, Change the Game ~ Colin Kapernick, Jacky HaHa ~ Chris Grabbenstein & James Patterson