During our professional development day, I received an email from the secretary notifying me that I had two packages waiting for me in the front office. I rushed to retrieve the boxes and opened them as soon as the work day ended.

I received a total of 22 awesome books from this generous redditor. All of these books will be used in the first week of school on a "book speed-dating" activity where students will be "interviewing" many books to determine what they'd like to choose as their first independent reading book for the quarter. From there on, they will be available in my classroom library to be checked out by my students, read in class and at home, loved, and shared with their schoolmates through reviews and discussion.

Thank you for your generosity. I greatly appreciate it, and I can promise you that the students will be very thankful as well.