James Patterson 開始する，打ち上げるs 認める program for libraries
NEW YORK (AP) ― Having 手渡すd out more than $1 million to help 独立した・無所属 bookstores, James Patterson is now 株ing his wealth with some other 決定的な, but often struggling 会・原則s: School libraries.
The best-selling author 発表するd Monday that he was 寄付するing $1.25 million through a 認める program 治めるd with Scholastic Reading Club, a 分割 of Scholastic, Inc. Libraries or 支持者s of libraries can 捜し出す 寄付s $1,000 to $10,000. Scholastic will match each 寄付 with "特別手当 Points" that can be used to 購入（する） classroom 構成要素s. によれば Patterson, requests can be for anything from 直す／買収する，八百長をするing a computer system to 支払う／賃金ing for a school reading 事業／計画（する）.
"James Patterson is such a 支持する／優勝者 of 調書をとる／予約するs and reading for all children. We are thrilled to work with him to support school libraries, which are 必須の for 栄えるing school communities," Judy Newman, 大統領，／社長 of Scholastic Reading Club, said in a 声明.
FILE - In this May 3, 2006, とじ込み／提出する photo, author James Patterson 熟視する／熟考するs a question during an interview at his home overlooking the Intracoastal 水路 in Palm Beach, Fla. Having 手渡すd out more than $1 million to help 独立した・無所属 bookstores, James Patterson is now 株ing his wealth with public school libraries. The best-selling author 発表するd Monday, March 9, 2015, that he was 寄付するing $1.25 million through a 認める program 治めるd with Scholastic Reading Club. (AP Photo/Wilfredo 物陰／風下, とじ込み／提出する)
Patterson, who has strong memories of his 週刊誌 visits to libraries as a child, told the Associated 圧力（をかける） during a 最近の interview that he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to "向こうずね a light" on the problem of public schools with no libraries or underfunded libraries. In California, for instance there was just one certified school librarian for every 7,784 students in 2012-13. Chicago and Philadelphia are の中で the other cities that have はっきりと 削減（する） library staffing. More than 8,000 public schools 全国的な did not have libraries in 2011-12, によれば the 国家の 中心 for 教育の 統計（学）.
"A lot of schools also don't have as many 調書をとる／予約するs as they should have," said Patterson, 追加するing that libraries were 特に important for kids in 世帯s without 調書をとる／予約するs. "There's a myth out there の中で some people that the kids are reading only 数字表示式の 調書をとる／予約するs now. They're not."
The program will begin with a $250,000 寄付 from Patterson, with the remaining $1 million to be 分配するd throughout the year and 付加 基金ing likely in the 未来,
It's the 最新の work of philanthropy for Patterson, an 支持する of literacy for more than a １０年間 through such 事業／計画（する）s as Read, Kiddo, Read and the James Patterson PageTurner Awards, which 申し込む／申し出s cash prizes to individuals who helped 促進する and encourage reading. In 2013, he earned the 感謝 of the 独立した・無所属 bookselling community by 開始する，打ち上げるing a system of 認めるs 類似の to what he is doing now for libraries
Patterson's 利益／興味 in reading begins at home. He remembers 押し進めるing his then-8-year-old son Jack to like 調書をとる／予約するs, 割り当てるing him a reading 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） one summer and watching him 前進する so 井戸／弁護士席 that he managed a perfect 得点する／非難する／２０ on his English SAT exam
"I'm the most emotional and 熱烈な about getting kids reading in late elementary and 早期に middle school reading because if they don't how are they going to get through high school?" he said.
"We just want to keep doing something useful, 押し進めるing the 激しく揺する up the hill. It's a big 激しく揺する, a big hill.
使用／適用s for library 認めるs can be 設立する at www.scholastic.com/pattersonpartnership
