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Books for Africa Schools


BOOKS WE WANT

All categories of books are wanted, both fiction and non-fiction. In general, high school students all over the world read the same sorts of books. The demand for books to read in Africa is very high. The teachers might prefer serious books, but we believe in reading and are happy to supply children with any books they actually want to read. Some categories of books, such as paperbacks and children's books, we won't ship at this time, but are happy to get them for our book sale, to raise money for shipping. Only books we can't ship and can't sell are of no use to us.

MOST WANTED BOOKS
  • non-fiction books up to college level, especially science, history, technology, world politics, and health.    Most especially books that are up to date!
  • textbooks up to freshman college level
  • classic literature of all kinds, recent novels, poetry, plays, Jane Austen
  • science fiction, romance (in hardback), graphic novels, manga
  • books about Africa
  • art books, dance, and music books
  • magazines no more than 10 years old : Scientific American, etc.
SEND SOME AND SELL THE REST
  • paperbacks (we hope to send mostly hardbacks.)
  • children's books (although we have sent books to an elementary school in the past).
  • mystery stories (we will send many, but the supply of these is even larger)
  • books about the United States
  • books of local Bay Area interest
  • cookbooks
THESE
BOOKS
WE
CAN'T
USE
  • non-fiction books which are many years out of date,
  • books which are falling apart,
  • books which are too advanced for a high school library, and also of no sale value  (such as advanced college textbooks or professional journals)

We have begun taking pictures of the books as we put them into boxes, and uploading to a web album. So you can see the books we are packing for Ghana at this website.