The Community Recruiting Guide provides a range of letter templates for recruiting mentors from a variety of sources. Browse the resources below for additional tools to support your recruitment efforts.
The Mentor Success Guide equips mentors with valuable information for managing their read-alouds, and for building meaningful connections with kids. Help mentors prepare and find inspiration with the resources below.
Here you’ll find letter templates for encouraging mentors, thank-you card templates that students can use to thank mentors, and certificates for program facilitators, parents, and students.
How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story
In 1830, a young Choctaw boy named Isaac and his family are forced to leave home by the U.S. government. Isaac becomes a ghost on the journey to relocate, but he lingers to help the living.
Michael Arroyo is a 12-year-old baseball player—and he throws pitches at speeds over 80 mph! As he deals with secrets and family challenges, Michael fights to prove that he’s really just a 12-year-old kid.
How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild
Through vivid descriptions and engaging illustrations, How to Be an Elephant explains how elephants learn to walk, eat, communicate, navigate, and stay cool—as well as how they’ve adapted to survive.
Virgil doesn’t have the courage to say hello to Valencia. He consults with his psychic, Kaori, and her little sister, Gen, for help dealing with his struggles with shyness, school, bullying, and making friends.