Operation Teen Book Drop

Fellow Upstart Crow and all-around awesome gal Martha Brockenbrough is helping get the word out about Operation Teen Book Drop, which delivers books to tribal schools in the United States (in particular) and encourages reading among teens (in general). I'm all for both, so I jumped onboard.

Want to participate? Here's the word from Martha...

Operation Teen Book Drop is this Thursday, April 15.

We are thrilled that you're participating in the Authors & Friends portion of the drop, and we'll try to keep it simple for everyone's sanity.

It's a two-step process with an optional extended dance mix:

1) On Thursday, drop a book off in a public spot for some lucky reader to find. If you'd like, you can download a bookplate from this page: http://www.readergirlz.com/tbd.html (this is where we've also listed all our participants)
2) Write a blog post or tweet about it using the hash tag #operationtbd. This helps us get the word out AND it helps us keep track of your progress. When we see those #operationtbd tweets go out, we will post about it on our blog (sending the love right back in your direction).

Something like this would work nicely (but feel free to use whatever language works):

I rocked the drop! You can find my book [insert location] [link to your blog] #operationtbd

The extended dance mix
We'd also be thrilled if you could tweet about any of our other activities that grab you:

The GuysLitWire Book Drive (tweet about this early and often, if you can!)
Buy a book for a teen at a tribal school. http://tinyurl.com/ycohksh #operationtbd Please RT.

The event itself
Operation Teen Book Drop: 10,000 books brought to Native teens today. Thanks, publishers! #operationtbd http://www.readergirlz.com/tbd.html

The chat that night at 6 p.m. Pacific
I'm going to the Operation Teen Book Drop chat! http://readergirlz.blogspot.com/ #operationtbd

Thank you SO VERY MUCH from our whole team on behalf of the kids whose lives will be enriched with your stories.

We appreciate your participation and welcome anyone else who'd like to join.

Best wishes from rgz, GuysLitWire, YALSA, and If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything.