Our Mission is simple: 

           Inspire Youth to Read More

Our Slogan:
"A Closed Book is Nothing More than a Paper Weight
       -- An Open Book is an Endless Adventure"

OVERALL-Create a more literate community

1)      Motivate and encourage Teens to read more

2)      Motivate and encourage Children age 12 and under to read more

3)      Spread awareness of youth groups committed to building stronger schools, communities and a country and to work with these groups to promote literacy

4)      Develop and manage a website to promote APPLE and literacy with links to literacy sites, information on club meetings, book exchange box locations for "Take a Book-Leave a Book", volunteer opportunities, and more

Objectives:

Foster a passion for reading by youth through

1)      Providing an opportunity for youth to exchange books free of check-out policies and return policies, other than if one takes a book, they must leave a book

2)      Providing books of a wide-assortment that are age appropriate and exciting to youth 

3)      Providing books in easy-to-access locations

4)      Encouraging teens to read to younger children through a Teen Mentoring program

5)      Involving as many students as possible in the program through participation in the book exchange, club and mentor reading
6)      To have a website that is useful in promoting literacy and the activities of A.P.P.L.E.



We enjoy having displays on literacy and explaining the importance of reading. This was a display at the Silver City Public Library that was in place for two months during early fall.