A collaboration between Book Harvest, a Durham-based youth literacy nonprofit, and the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) provided 76,000 books to 6,920 pre-K through fifth grade students this summer, according to a press release.
The program, Books on Break, gave students in 47 counties the opportunity to choose 10 brand-new books to build their home libraries during the summer break.
Book Harvest promotes youth literacy through several initiatives, stocking outdoor book boxes, maintaining reading materials in laundromats, and sending pre-K and elementary school students into summer break with books to keep…