Do Good Programs: Bucks for Books

As part of library reading time at Glenns Ferry Elementary, students read stories aloud and perform them with puppets. During their Bucks for Books presentation, the students performed The Lion and the Mouse, a story of how the smallest creature can always help the largest and fiercest. Last year, the Idaho Lottery’s Bucks for Books program, in cooperation with the Idaho Commission for Libraries, awarded 39 elementary schools a total of $105,000 for new book acquisition. Like The Lion and the Mouse, the Idaho Lottery is doing its small part to help the larger effort of improving literacy among Idaho students, one school at a time. Here is a list of all the schools across Idaho who received Bucks for Books awards in Fiscal Year 2022.

North Idaho:

Betty Kiefer Elementary, Rathdrum = $3,000 Kootenai Elementary, Kootenai = $3,000 Upriver Elementary, Fernwood = $3,000

Students and teachers from Kootenai Elementary Kootenai, Idaho

Palouse Area:

Camelot Elementary, Lewiston = $1,000 Centennial Elementary, Lewiston = $3,000 Juliaetta Elementary, Juliaetta = $3,000 Potlatch Elementary, Potlatch = $3,000 McSorley Elementary, Lewiston = $3,000

Southwest Idaho:

Amity Elementary, Boise = $3,000 Desert Springs Vallivue, Nampa = $3,000 Fruitland Elementary, Fruitland = $3,000

Southwest Idaho continued:

Idaho Arts Charter School, Nampa = $3,000 Koelsch Elementary, Boise = $1,000 Middleton Heights Elementary, Middleton = $3,000 Sacajawea Elementary, Caldwell = $2,000 Victory Charter School, Nampa = $1,000 White Pine Elementary, Boise = $3,000 Whittier Elementary, Boise = $3,000

South Central Idaho:

Acequia Elementary, Acequia = $3,000 Glenns Ferry Elementary, Glenns Ferry = $3,000 Hansen Elementary, Hansen = $3,000 Hagerman Elementary, Hagerman = $1,000 Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind, Gooding = $3,000 Lincoln Elementary, Twin Falls = $3,000 Oregon Trail Elementary, Twin Falls = $3,000 Rock Creek Elementary, Twin Falls = $3,000

Southeast Idaho:

Arbon Valley Elementary, Arbon Valley = $1,000 Mountain View Elementary, McCammon = $3,000 Riverside Elementary, Blackfoot = $2,000 Wapello Elementary, Blackfoot = $3,000

East Idaho:

Burton Elementary, Rexburg = $3,000 Driggs Elementary, Driggs = $3,000 Henry’s Fork Elementary, St. Anthony = $3,000 Hibbard Elementary, Rexburg = $3,000 Kershaw Intermediate, Sugar City = $3,000 Roberts Elementary, Roberts = $3,000 Taylor’s Crossing Public Charter, Idaho Falls = $3,000 Tetonia Elementary, Tetonia = $3,000

Students and teacher from Fruitland Elementary Fruitland, Idaho