Food Bank Wish List The Food Bank is collecting the basics as part of this year’s food drive: ● canned fruit and vegetables ● macaroni and cheese ● oatmeal and other cereals ● pork and beans ● canned tuna ● soup ● beef stew ● rice ● other food items Top Ten Most Needed Food Items 1. Canned Meat, Fish & Soups 2. Canned Ready to Eat Meals 3. Canned Vegetables & Tomato Products 4. Peanut Butter (plastic container) 5. Iron Rich Cereal (45% or more of daily value) 6. 100% Fruit Juice (48 oz. or less plastic bottles) 7. Canned Fruit (in juice) 8. Dry Beans (any type) 9. Enriched Rice or Pasta 10. Powdered Milk Where do folks in need go to find food in West County? Across the five cities of West County there are numerous community centers, churches, clubs, and assistance centers who serve food supplied by the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. A list of these organizations and help centers is available online at www.foodbankccs.org under the “Get Help” tab. www.foodbankccs.org
West Contra Costa Public School Libraries Wish List ƒ
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There are 57 public school libraries serving K‐12 students across West County. Each school is in need of library books for students eager to read and learn. Culturally diverse novels, chapter books, as well as reference books are needed and greatly requested by students. For elementary schools, culturally diverse picture books and books for beginning readers (chapter books) are wonderful additions for classrooms and libraries. For middle school and high school libraries, the most asked for books are culturally diverse fiction (novels) and reference books. Examples of requested books for elementary schools include: Preschool Reading ¡Pio Peep! Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes ‐ by Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy Quinito, Day and Night = Quinito, dia y noche ‐ by Ina Cumpiano One Afternoon ‐ by Yumi Heo Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book ‐ by Yuyi Morales Baby Says ‐ by John Steptoe I Love My Hair! ‐ by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley Baby Rattlesnake ‐ by Ata Te Round Is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes ‐ by Rosanne Where Did You Get Your Moccasins? ‐ by Bernelda Wheeler More, More, More, Said the Baby: Three Love Stories ‐ by Vera B. Williams For Beginning Readers The Good Luck Cat ‐ by Joy Harjo Grandfather Counts ‐ by Andrea Cheng Growing Up with Tamales = Los tamales de Ana ‐ by Gwendolyn Zepeda Hairs/Pelitos ‐ by Sandra Cisneros Honey, I Love, and Other Poems ‐ by Eloise Greenfield I Lost My Tooth in Africa ‐ by Penda Diakité Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. McKissack Morning on the Lake by Jan Bourdeau Waboose Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children ‐ by Sandra L. Pinkney Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding ‐ by Lenore Look What Can You Do With a Paleta? ‐ by Carmen Tafolla When the Shadbush Blooms ‐ by Carla Messinger and Susan Katz World Team ‐ by Tim Vyner For Early Readers Dia's Story Cloth: The Hmong People's Journey to Freedom ‐ by Dia Cha and Chue and Nhia Thao Cha Indian Shoes by Cynthia Leitich Smith John Henry by Julius Lester Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter My Name Is From the Bellybutton of the Moon, and Other Summer Poems / Del ombligo de la luna, y otros poemas de verano ‐ by Francisco X. Alarcon Maria Isabel ‐ by Alma Flor Ada The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton The People Shall Continue by Simon Ortiz Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins Ruby Lu, Brave and True by Lenore Look Shin‐chi's Canoe by Nicola I. Campbell Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold For Middle Schools A Single Shard ‐ by Linda Sue Park Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life’s Song by Ashley Bryan Boys without Names ‐ by Kashmira Sheth Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis The Birchbark House ‐ by Louise Erdrich The Composition ‐ by Antonio Skarmeta ellington was not a street ‐ by Ntozake Shange Esperanza Rising ‐ by Pam Munoz Ryan Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen ‐ by Linda Barrett Osborne and Casey King Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ‐ by Mildred D. Taylor The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico with Paintings from Mexican Artists ‐ by Naomi Shihab Nye, editor Through My Eyes ‐ by Ruby Bridges Where the Mountain Meets the Moon ‐ by Grace Lin For High Schools High school libraries are in need of culturally diverse novels, new novels, and reference books.