The Oglala Lakota College Library, the only public library on the reservation, coordinates an ongoing “Build Your Own Library” project for which they hold events for children in various areas of the reservation.
All children are invited and they have a story time session after which the children are offered a selection of age-appropriate books from which they can choose titles they like to take home with them. The library is trying to engage the children in reading, expose them to the opportunities the library has to offer, and encourage them to build their own libraries at home.
In order to do this, the library is seeking donations of new and/or very gently used children’s books in like-new condition for ages pre-school to 16 years old. Please take a moment to look through your bookshelves at home, purchase some children’s books locally or order some online and have them shipped directly to the OLC Library.
Below are books the library has requested. If you donate any of the books listed below, please let me know.
Thank you very much for supporting the OLC Library, and encouraging a lifelong love of reading for the children of Pine Ridge Reservation!
Let me know if you’d like to join the FoPRR Google Group. It’s where I communicate with donors & share behind the scenes stuff!
Needed/Donated as of 1/2026:
In the Shadow of Lightning (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Long Live the Pumpkin Queen (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Lightlark (Book 1) (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Kingdom of the Feared (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Nettle & Bone (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Game of Fate (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
A Touch of Darkness (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Red Rising (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Golden Son (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
The Fifth Season (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Morning Star (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Iron Gold (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Mageborn (Goal 10, 2 donated–Thank you! Need 8)
Mageborn : The Line of Illeniel: (Book 2) (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Mageborn : The Archmage Unbound: (Book 3) (Need 10)
Mageborn : The God-Stone War: (Book 4) (Need 10)
Mageborn : The Final Redemption: Book 5 (Need 10)
Queen of Coin and Whispers (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Thirst No. 2 (Goal 10, 2 donated–Thank you! Need 8)
Thirst No. 3 (Goal 10, 2 donated–Thank you! Need 8)
Thirst No. 4 : The Shadow of Death (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Thirst No. 5 : The Sacred Veil (Goal 10, 1 donated–Thank you! Need 9)
Graceling (Goal 10, 15 donated–Thank you!)
Heart of Iron (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
City of Bones (Goal 10, 15 donated–Thank you!)
The Bellmaker (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
Edgewood (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
We Are Satellites (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
Cinder (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
Salamandastron (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
Martin the Warrior (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
Outcast of Redwall (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
Pearls of Lutra (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
World War Z : An Oral History of the Zombie War (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
The Long Patrol (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
The Final Gambit (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
Fairy Tale (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
Dark Age (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
Interview with A Vampire (Goal 10,10 donated–Thank you!)
Thirst No. 1 (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
Robopocalypse (Goal 10, 10 donated–Thank you!)
Also donated–Thank you!:
Dragon Boy and the Wonderful Night
Mooses with Bazookas
Eagle Song
Please ship your books here:
UPS/FedEx:
Marilyn Frank
Oglala Lakota College Library
BYOL Project/FoPRR
310 Piya Wiconi Road
Kyle, SD 57752
U.S. Mail*:
Marilyn Frank
Oglala Lakota College Library
BYOL Project/FoPRR
P. O. Box 310
Kyle, SD 57752
*Please make sure to use P.O. Box addresses only if shipping via the post office, not the street addresses.
Please Note: Due to the volume of donations shipped to the reservation FoPRR cannot verify delivery of your boxes. If you require confirmation of delivery, please purchase delivery confirmation from the post office or use your shipping service’s or vendor’s tracking system.


If you've received a phone call soliciting donations for "Pine Ridge Reservation" please consider it a scam and do not provide any credit card information.