The Lagoon Book Club donated books to elementary schools for the last four years and this year the library at Alfredo Anduze Elementary School received new books valued at $1,000.
Leonor Gillette, the club president, said books were selected by the school librarian for all ages and also bilingual readers. In previous years, Juanita Gardine, Claude O. Marko and Pearl B. Larson Elementary Schools received books.
The books are purchased with donations by the 16 book club members and everyone gives what they want and can, so the amounts spent each year are not the same, Gillette said.
“We love to read and encourage children to read. It’s a time you can instill it in them. If it is high school, its harder to get them to read,” she said.
