
Resources
The Whatcom Literacy Council offers a wealth of helpful resources for everyone involved in learning.

PROVIDING THE TOOLS TO HELP OUR COMMUNITY LEARN

RESOURCES FOR LEARNERS
English Language Learning (ELL)
USA Learns is a free website for adults to learn English and improve their basic reading, writing, speaking, and life skills.
Reading and Literacy
TV411 is a collection of entertaining videos and engaging web activities, all designed to help you reach your learning goals. Options include reading for success, fine-tuning your writing, expanding your vocabulary, getting a grip on math, and exploring science.
General Education Diploma (GED)
The PBS Literacy Link - GED Connection offers a variety of activities that you can do on your own or with a tutor. Anyone can set up a user name and log in... even tutors can register as a new teacher to review student’s work.
Computers
GFC Learn Free offers free computer courses for beginners – including typing, using the internet, doing e-mail, and learning Microsoft Office software.

RESOURCES FOR VOLUNTEERS

Monthly Report Forms


RESOURCES FOR EVERYONE
Book Recommendations
The following books were recommended by Nancy Pearl, an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic, well known speaker and the former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library.. Please consider purchasing them from our supporting partner Village Books, or borrowing them from the Whatcom County Library!

Nancy Pearl, by Susan Doupé
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​Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt
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What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
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Colored Television by Danzy Senna
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Dayswork by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel
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The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
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The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
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The Wedding People by Alison Espach
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Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
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The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
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The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis
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The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History by Karen Valby
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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios
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Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham
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The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz