We Need You to be a Book Buddy

Do you enjoy reading and helping elementary school kids?  If so, the Young Lawyers Section hopes that you will be a Book Buddy this school year.  As GBA member Richard Hicks, a Book Buddies volunteer, said, “I have found reading to the children to be a very rewarding experience.  I suspect that I have benefited from it more than they have.”

An excited group of YLS Book Buddies at Hampton Elementary

Book Buddies is a volunteer program that YLS created and supports every year.  The program pairs lawyers with classrooms at Hampton Elementary to read aloud to the class for a half-hour every few weeks.  The great thing about the program is that it’s flexible—once you’re paired with a classroom, you work with the teacher to schedule mutually agreeable reading times.  At the end of the school year, YLS also purchases books so that each Book Buddy can deliver a book to every kid in his or her classroom—the kids love it!

Our goal is to fully staff Hampton’s pre-K through second-grade classes and expand to another Guilford County school.  Book Buddies is open to all GBA members, so you don’t have to be a young lawyer to volunteer with us.  To find out more about Book Buddies and how you can volunteer, please email Whit Pierce at whit.pierce@smithmoorelaw.com.