This VIRTUAL event is designed as a READ 718 community gathering. We will celebrate the progress our kids are making, highlight some of the people crucial to the success of our programs, and share information about what we're working on for the future. 

We hope you will join us for this fun evening AND help spread the word by sharing this invitation with your friends and family. We are always looking to expand the READ 718 community.

Anyone and everyone is welcome. Feel free to buy a ticket or make a contribution, but if you can't do that now, don't let that stop you from attending!

After you RSVP or purchase a ticket, you will receive a Zoom link for the event on June 3, 2021. Be sure to provide an accurate email address. Note: this event is from 7-7:45 pm, not 8pm.

More about our honoree ... the recipient of READ 718's 2021 Inspiring READers for Life Award ... the amazing Jacqueline Woodson, below:

Jacqueline Woodson is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award, and she was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, won the National Book Award, as well as the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, and the NAACP Image Award. She also wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Her dozens of books for young readers include Before the Ever After, New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me, Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster, and the picture book Each Kindness, which won the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award.