Previous credits include winning the 2017 Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature, longlisting for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award, and appearing on the New York Public Library’s recommended reading list for 2020 National Caribbean American Heritage Month for her novel, The Art of White Roses. She has never seen Star Wars, eaten a grasshopper, or written a poem without the letter ‘e,’ though she hopes to do all three of those things in the future. Viviana Prado-Núñez is an author, theatre-maker, and teaching artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in a hospital with a 4.0 Google review rating and a view of the ocean. The program currently serves students at over a dozen different sites in New York City, Detroit, Los Angeles, Greensboro, NC, and Huntsville, TX. In addition to books that groups select and read together in a book club–style format, students are given a budget to purchase books of their choosing during shopping trips to local bookstores. Since its start in 2007, BookUp has given away over 35,000 free books, and each year helps 500 students build their first home libraries. Young people also interact directly with the local literary community through author visits and field trips to libraries, museums, and bookstores. During after-school and summer programs, BookUp connects middle- and high-school students with local authors and runs free reading groups designed to improve participants’ social, emotional, and literacy skills. Photo credit: Jordan SmithīookUp, the National Book Foundation’s flagship educational program, believes reading for pleasure has a direct and substantial impact on young people’s success in school and careers. BookUp students celebrate on a field trip to Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, NY.
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