Can you help us develop more readers and book lovers among our Uptown youth?
Word Up frequently donates books to schools, classroom libraries, and youth programs. In all our nine years of Word Up, The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has been one of the most requested series ever! Its illustrated chapter book format has meant that kids of many different reading levels and home languages can access it, and have felt the accomplishment of completing—and enjoying!—books. Teachers and administrators regularly report that their classroom copies are missing—a problem we are all pretty happy to have. And more than once in our community space, we have used The Diary of a Wimpy Kid to turn kids who are reluctant readers into voracious book lovers. In short, we never have enough to give away.
Your purchase of $140 at this link goes toward donating a set of Jeff Kinney books (Diary of a Wimpy Kid books 1-14, plus the first in the Awesome Friendly Kid series) to the many schools and youth programs that ask for these books throughout the year, in Manhattan School District 6, school districts in the Bronx, and beyond.
This set of books has a retail value of $238.84. We are selling them at cost, so that we can get more of these books into the hands of more readers!
We already have a backlog of requests! If you would like to earmark your donation for a particular school or classroom, please let us know in the comments when you make your purchase.
Books in Series
This is a collection of books 1-14 in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series plus the first in the Awesome Friendly Kid series Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid.
- #1: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal (Prebound): Email orders@wordupbooks.com for price.
- #2: Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2) (Prebound): Email orders@wordupbooks.com for price.
- #3: The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3) (Prebound): Email orders@wordupbooks.com for price.
- #4: Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4) (Hardcover): $14.99
- #5: The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Collection #5) (Large Print / Hardcover): $20.99
- #6: Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Collection #6) (Large Print / Hardcover): $20.99
- #7: The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Collection #7) (Large Print / Hardcover): $20.99
- #8: Hard Luck (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #8) (Prebound): $26.95
- #9: The Long Haul (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #9) (Prebound): Email orders@wordupbooks.com for price.
- #10: Old School (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Collection #10) (Large Print / Hardcover): $20.99
- #11: Double Down (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #11) (Large Print / Hardcover): $20.99
- #12: The Getaway (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #12) (Large Print / Library Binding): $20.99
- #13: The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 13) (Hardcover): $14.99
- #14 Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 14) (Hardcover): $14.99
- Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal (Hardcover)