The Change

BooK PIPELINE to our workshop sites and partner facilities

We gather in our workshops to explore, generate, and amplify voices from our communities, hoping always to assist in transformation. THE CHANGE, our book donation pipeline, is one of our three programs, and provides a tangible way to enrich lives—supplying books to our workshop sites and partner facilities (e.g., the Academic School Library of Green Hill School, Washington's maximum security youth detention facility). And you, too, can assist in transformation by sharing stories of hope, loss, risk, regret, and growth.

Here’s how you participate.

1) Send us your books. We will sort and deliver them.

The Change
c/o Underground Writing
P.O. Box 1043
Mount Vernon, WA 98273

2) Share your story of how a book changed / saved your life. Tag us on

3) Fund this effort. Leave a note for recommendations, and we’ll take care of the rest

 

Thanks to Easton’s Books (Mount Vernon), Red Door Thrift Shoppe (Anacortes, WA), Open Books (Seattle, WA), the Lopez Island community, and Pam and James Hoyle for your founding and ongoing donations.

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A shortlist of recommendations: LONG WAY DOWN by Jason Reynolds, VINTAGE HUGHES by Langston Hughes, INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison.


PHOTO | LATEST DONATION

Donations: Lopez Island community (2 boxes of books), Pam and James Hoyle (3 boxes of books). These were distributed to the Academic Library of Green Hill School in Chehalis, WA (Washington's maximum security youth detention facility).

 

Questions? Requests? Ideas? Send them!

CANON – our running list of books we love to provide to our sites

Books marked “YA” have a youth emphasis, but can be enjoyed by both youth and adults.

  • 100 Songs – Bob Dylan

  • Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The – Sherman Alexie (YA)

  • Black Mesa Poems – Jimmy Santiago Baca

  • Crossover, The – Kwame Alexander (YA)

  • Elements of Style, The – Strunk and White – 4th Edition

  • Essential Ethridge Knight, The – Ethridge Knight

  • Essential Gwendolyn Brook, The – Gwendolyn Brooks

  • Fire Next Time, The – James Baldwin

  • I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter – Erika L. Sanchez (YA)

  • Inferno – Mary Jo Bang, Translator

  • Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

  • Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Locomotion – Jacqueline Woodson (YA)

  • Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The – Sherman Alexie

  • Long Way Down – Jason Reynolds (YA)

  • Odyssey, The – Homer – Emily Wilson, Translator

  • Outsiders, The – S. E. Hinton (YA)

  • Piecing Me Together – Renee Watson (YA)

  • Place to Stand, A – Jimmy Santiago Baca

  • Poems of Emily Dickinson – R.W. Franklin, Editor (Reading Edition)

  • River Runs Deep – Jennifer Bradbury (YA)

  • Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry – Mildred Taylor (YA)

  • Sappho – Mary Barnard, Translator

  • Things They Carried, The – Tim O’Brien

  • True Notebooks – Mark Salzman

  • Unaccompanied – Javier Zamora

  • Undressing, The – Li-Young Lee

  • Vintage Hughes, The – Langston Hughes

  • When My Brother Was an Aztec – Natalie Diaz

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