Jessica Hernandez Donation Project
I wanted to participate in this project because I have never participated in any donation project. I was always the shy kid that was scared to ask f0r anything associated with asking people about an opinion or donation. I saw this project as a way to get out of my comfort zone and at the same time raise books for teenagers. My goal for this project is to collect twenty books from friends and family. The research I did for this project was to look for books that teenagers would like. Since I am donating directly, I asked friends and family to donate any books they had. The websites that used to ask publicly were via text. I did have to ask in a month in advance to give my friends and family time to collect their books.
Five books that I recommend would be the Twilight series, The Unwind series, The Divergent Series, The Harry Potter series, The Goosebumps series. While reading, I love to make up the scenes in my head and imagine how the characters would look, or I like to watch the movies if they have one. 
The advice I would give to people who would like to participate in this project is to give yourself time to pick out books and pick some interesting genres—for example, fiction or even books based on true stories.
The books that I would recommend:
- Host
- Paper Town
- The Divergent Series
- I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- The Fault To Our Stars
- Star Girl
- Vampire Academy series
- The House On Mango Street
- Five Feet Apart
- The Cruel Prince
- The selection
- Wonder
- One Of Us Is Lying
- The Speaker
- Everything Everything
- Flipped
- Still missing
- Gone Girl
- Unearthly
- The Siren
- Holes
- The Beauty that remains
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Wonder Stuck
- Before I Fall
As I searched for a place to donate, I found a website that collected all types of books for all prisons. You can drop off books or donate the books through Amazon. Since we live in Georgia, I believe the best option would be either through Amazon or mail. To find more information about how books benefit people in prison you can click on the following resources:
- https://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/georgia-prison-libraries-short-books-and-titles-ajc-analysis-finds/aKi5FxMIcLpYY92JoQBjPL/#:~:text=The%20Georgia%20Department%20of%20Corrections,%40gdc.ga.gov.
- https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/11/prison-libraries-book-bans-california-sacramento-reading-rehabilitation/
- https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/reading-gives-people-prison-hope-some-states-want-take-their-ncna840806
- https://ncac.org/news/books-behind-bars-the-right-to-read-in-prison#:~:text=Access%20to%20a%20wide%20range,grow%20and%20to%20explore%20ideas.
- https://jjie.org/2020/09/02/incarcerated-youth-need-books-to-combat-their-increased-isolation/
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