Juvenile Court Book Club, Inc.

At JCBC, reading is always at the top of our list of resolutions. Resolve to join us as a volunteer this year! Visit our website to see how.

Habari Gani? Wishing you a holiday season blessed with the seven principles of Kwanzaa: umoja (unity), kujichagulia (self-determination), ujima (collective work and responsibility), ujamaa (cooperative economics), nia (purpose), kuumba (creativity) and imani (faith).

JCBC wishes you and yours a very merry Christmas!

'Twas the night before Christmas ...

JCBC's founder, Maria Arroyo, gets some well deserved kudos in the San Diego Union-Tribune!

Some of the girls in Girls' Rehabilitation Facility participated in an art contest sponsored by the Timken Museum of Art. Check out their art - on the theme of self-reflection - and vote for your favorites!

It's Back-to-School time for the teens at Juvenile Hall and Urban Camp. Juvenile Court Book Club hasn't yet gotten word when monthly book club sessions can resume, but we miss the kids and are sending good thoughts for a terrific new school year, despite COVID-19.

Juvenile Court Book Club is honored to partner with Project One, a new nonprofit focused on literacy founded by a group of Berkeley grads. Project One is fundraising to provide Kindles to the teens incarcerated in Urban Camp! The Kindles will open up an even wider world of books for the teens, and the teachers are excited to help the students use the Kindles for classroom work and free reading. If you can help with this worthy cause, please visit Project One's GoFundMe page. Thank you!

America, reimagined.

School is out for the summer at Juvenile Hall and Urban Camp, but the teens are still reading, thanks to classroom libraries stocked with donated books. We don't know yet when we'll be able to rejoin the kids for monthly book club sessions and weekly tutoring. We hope it's soon, but it's more important that the teens, teachers and staff stay safe and healthy.

Outdoors, on a blanket on the grass, at the beach, on a park bench, on your porch, in your yard ... anywhere is just right for summer reading.