We’re thrilled to announce that Daniela Bazán will be joining us through the end of this school year as the major component of her San Francisco Urban Service Project (www.sfusp.org). She is working with us in the schools, in our satellite Writers’ Room at Everett Middle School, and helping with our Young Authors’ project at Wallenberg Alternative High School this year before she enters her PhD. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Welcome, Daniela! more »

We are proud to present to you our 826 National video. If you attended our Revenge of the Bookeaters tour, you probably saw it already, but why not check it out again? It's narrarated by the one and only Sarah Vowell! more »

Tracy Corbally, an English teacher at Castlemont High School in Oakland, is the 826 Valencia Teacher of the Month for... more »

Your school and classroom can participate in One City One Book: San Francisco Reads 2006! During 2005, more than 1,000 high school students participated in the San Francisco Public Library's first One City One Book, reading and discussing China Boy, and listening to author Gus Lee in person. more »

826 Valencia would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped make our stop on the 826 national tour a tremendous success! The show not only proved to be an inspirational evening of music, readings and laughs, it helped us raise a great deal of money for our programming too. We’d like to extend an extra special thank you to the following folks, without whom this event would not have been possible: Mark Kozelek, Aimee Mann, Patton Oswalt, Jonathan Richman, Zach Rogue, Sarah Vowell more »