Literacy Council Frederick County

Holiday Children's Book Drive 2025
2025-11-14 - 2025-12-22 | MD
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This holiday season the Literacy Council of Frederick County is partnering with ACNB Bank and Curious Iguana for our 19th Annual Holiday Book Drive to provide new and gently-used books for elementary school aged children (PreK through 5th grade). Last year, over 900 children’s books were donated!
The Literacy Council works with adults 18 years and older, many of whom are supporting families and young children. Providing appealing, age-appropriate books to children fosters literacy at a young age and helps to break the cycle of low literacy in families. The donated books from this annual book drive are given to parents of children in elementary school who are participating in the Literacy Council’s tutoring, parent literacy, workplace, or class instruction programs.
The Literacy Council works directly with the Judy Center and Butterfly Ridge, Hillcrest, Lincoln, Monocacy, Tuscarora, and Waverley Elementary Schools to provide programs at the schools for parents whose children attend these schools, and many of our other students also have young children with whom to share the books. Books will also be distributed to children at community outreach events throughout the year.
Suggestions for younger grades include: board books, picture books (fiction and nonfiction), early chapter books; and for older grades: mid-grade chapter books, paperback series, graphic novels, and STEM titles. Donors often like to share a childhood favorite or just encourage the habit of reading in a child. We request no religious holiday themed books so that we are not limited in distributing them.
To participate in the Holiday Book Drive, you may purchase and donate books between November 14 and December 22 at Curious Iguana (www.curiousiguana.com) in downtown Frederick (12 N. Market St.) – please designate your purchase to the Literacy Council’s Holiday Book Drive and Curious Iguana will collect them in a bin at their store.
Donated unwrapped books can be dropped off at these ACNB Bank locations between November 14th through December 22nd:
2 North on the Square: 2 North Market Street. Frederick, MD 21701
Aspen Ridge: 165A Thomas Johnson Drive, Frederick, MD 21702
Crestwood: 6910 Crestwood Boulevard, Frederick, MD 21703
Walkersville: 200 Commerce Drive, Walkersville, MD 21793

Giving Tuesday
2025-12-02
For sixty-three years, the Literacy Council of Frederick County has been helping adults with pathways to essential literacy skills. During this time, more than 10,000 students have worked with the Literacy Council and improved their literacy skills, which enabled them to be a thriving part of their communities in Frederick County. Just this year, 195 volunteers have dedicated more than 16,000 hours helping more than 575 adult learners through tutoring, community classes, parent literacy and workplace English programs.
Donate to the Literacy Council of Frederick County today so that we may continue to help our adult learners create the life they want through empowering them with newly acquired literacy skills. The impact of gaining English language skills has on an individual, their family and their community can be transformative.
When you support us, you help an adult learner reach their goals and meet their potential. From getting a GED or a driver’s license to finding a better job or to being able to communicate with their children’s teacher – these goals become achievable. Learning to speak, read, write and listen opens doors for our students that isn’t possible without the support of our volunteer tutors, teachers and from people like you.
Help us raise $3,500.00 this Giving Tuesday, so that we may continue to provide essential literacy instruction and materials to our adult learners. Through supporting us this Giving Tuesday, you are helping us demonstrate that Literacy Lifts Lives.

December Meet Up
2025-12-06 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
Join us and run/ walk the LCFC Run for Literacy Virtual 5K. Meet us at Baker Park at the entrance to the Edward P Thomas Memorial Pool on Saturday, December 6th. You can register in advance or donate at the meet up, either way you will leave with your medal!
Register: Run for Literacy Virtual 5k
