11,250 books!!

11,250 books Gifted to Students by RAL

During the 2021-2022 school year, AL of San Jose’s Readers Are Leaders program distributed 11,250 books to students to keep and take home. Each student in the program received 9 books: 1 National Geographic book as a holiday gift and 8 books from the series “What If You Had Animal….” by Sandra Markle, illustrated by Howard McWilliam. That’s a lot of bedtime reading!