How can you help United Way of Northwest Louisiana and Dolly Parton?

United Way of Northwest Louisiana is teaming up with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to provide a brand-new book club to kids in the area.

According to the United Way of Northwest Louisiana, Shreveport's 71103 is one of the poorest zip codes in the region whose families are struggling, and the kids are without access to books.

Currently, any child under five-years-old living in Desoto, Natchitoches, Sabine, Red River and Webster Parishes can participate. Additional funding is needed to enroll all children in Caddo, Bossier, Bienville and Claiborne Parishes.

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has been dedicated to inspiring a love of reading since its inception in 1995 and today over 1 million free books get delivered to children in five countries every month.

"When I was growing up in the hills of East Tennessee, I knew my dreams would come true," Parton writes on the Imagination Library website. "I know there are children in your community with their own dreams. They dream of becoming a doctor or an inventor a minister. Who knows, maybe there is a little girl whose dream is to be a writer and a singer. The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world."

You can support this new book club by becoming a United Way Book Club member or a United Way Book Club sponsor to help kids in the area have access to books all year delivered straight to their homes.

Book Club Member Tiers

• Book Worms (give $250 or less) - sponsors up to 5 children

• Page Turners (give $251 - $499) - sponsors 5 - 9 children

• Storytellers (give $500 - $999) - sponsors 10 - 19 children

• Novelists (give $1,000 - $4,999) - sponsors 20 - 100 children

New Book Club members will receive a limited-edition bookmark and those that give $50 or more before Wednesday, November 30 will be entered into a drawing for a chance to win an autographed copy of Dolly Parton's book Coat of Many Colors.

Book Club Sponsor Tiers

• Patrons (give $5,000) - sponsors 100 children

• Scholars (give $10,000) - sponsors 200 children

• Curators (give $25,000) - sponsors 500 children

• The Librarian (give $50,000) - sponsors 1,000 children

All book club sponsorships give the children a full year of books with additional benefits for the sponsors.

To become a Book Club member or sponsor and for more information visit the United Way of Louisiana website.

Meredith G. White is the arts and culture reporter for the Shreveport Times. You can find her on Facebook as Meredith G. White, on Instagram and Twitter as @meredithgwhite, and email her at mgwhite@gannett.com

This article originally appeared on Shreveport Times: Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is coming to Northwest Louisiana