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Rebecca Constantino founded Access Books in 1999 while doing graduate research on the roles of school and community libraries in Los Angeles. [3] Working with a school in Brentwood, she discovered a plan to throw away hundreds of books to make way for new ones. She salvaged the rejected books and donated them to a public school in Compton. The ...
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel, established in 1998, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.
Central Juvenile Hall (also known as Eastlake Juvenile Hall or Central) is a youth detention center in Los Angeles County.Central houses both boys and girls. [1] The Central Juvenile Hall complex was originally established in 1912 as the first juvenile detention facility in Los Angeles County. [2]
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography winners and finalists Year Author Title Subject Result Ref. 1981 David McCullough: Mornings on Horseback: Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919) Winner 1982 Gay Wilson Allen: Waldo Emerson: A Biography
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1979: Kidspace Children's Museum launched at the California Institute of Technology.A community project of the Junior League of Pasadena, Kidspace addressed an educational need in the San Gabriel Valley: increased access to the arts, humanities and sciences for children.
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The school serves students ranging in ages 13 to 22 who have severe disabilities. Because students from surrounding communities are bussed to the Central Los Angeles school, its student body reflects widely diverse cultural, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. Students' race/ethnicity is: [3] Asian: 21; Hispanic: 208; Black, non-Hispanic: 44