Lit Club Completes Successful Book Drive
Some of the 70 titles collected by Lit Club members during their November book drive.
Members of the high school’s Lit Club completed a successful book drive on Nov. 18, after collecting 70 books, enabling them to meet their goal of filling a book table in the high school Media Center.
The goal was “to have students rediscover the joy of reading,” said club advisor Adriana Coppola, who teaches English at the high school. “This will hopefully drive the ability to enter fantastical worlds and lose a sense of time. We want to inspire the students to pick up a book they find difficult to put down and go on a journey away from their reality and find happiness in a good book.”
To meet the goal of the book drive, club members donated their favorite contemporary, young adult fiction books. “I donated ‘The Hours,’ which we read in Lit Club last year,” said sophomore Ruby Weston, who has been an enthusiastic member of the club for two years. “I really enjoyed the book. I hope others will see it and will want to read it.”
Other members of the club donated a multitude of books such as “Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel” by A.W. Jantha, “They Both Die at the End” by Adam Silvera and Madeleine l’Engle’s classic sci-fi/fantasy, “A Wrinkle in Time.”
“I think the book drive will help inspire kids to read since these books are more accessible since they are being donated,” freshman Emma Carothers said. “Since these are books other kids have liked, it may help them get into reading a lot more than if they were just schoolbooks.”
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Ruby Weston is a sophomore who is new to Rampage this year as a staff reporter. She is also part of Literature Club, Gender & Sexuality Alliance (GSA) and Speech & Debate. Ruby is originally from England, moving to the United States at the age of three, and she plans to return to the U.K. after high school. Outside of school, Ruby works as an assistant teacher at an art studio.
Taylor Cantara is a senior who is enjoying her second year as a Rampage staff reporter. She plays lacrosse for the high school, is a member of the Bridges service club and also writes for TAPinto Randolph as part of the TAP club. Outside of school, she works at a local bakery and likes to read; her favorite book is "Verity" by Colleen Hoover.
