BEHIND THE BOOK WELCOMES THREE NEW SCHOOLS

author Kai Jackson Issa with students at CS 21
Photo Taken by Jo Umans

Behind the Book is pleased to announce that we will be working with three new schools,
PS 165, PS 86, and PS 376, in the 2009-2010 school year. They will join our current roster of Behind the Book schools (see complete list below).

2009-2010 Behind the Book Schools

PS 165 Robert E. Simmon School
Upper West Side, Manhattan

PS 86 Irvington School
Bushwick, Brooklyn

PS 376A Felicita Rincon De Gautier School
Bushwick, Brooklyn

CS 21 Crispus Attucks School
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

PS 116 William C. Hughley School
Jamaica, Queens

JHS 13 Jackie Robinson School
East Harlem, Manhattan

IS 347 School of Humanities
Bushwick, Brooklyn

Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change
Central Harlem, Manhattan

Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

De Witt Clinton High School
Norwood, the Bronx

Harvey Milk High School
Greenwich Village, Manhattan

~~ABOUT BEHIND THE BOOK~~
The mission of Behind the Book is to excite children and young adults about reading. Working with low-income students in New York City’s K-12 public schools, Behind the Book brings authors and their books into individual classrooms to build literacy skills and nurture a new generation of book readers.