Books on Break
Building Home Libraries for Summer Reading
Books on Break is a joyful, exciting way to help students build their home libraries and equip students with high-interest books to help them practice reading all summer long.
What is Books on Break?
Book Harvest’s Books on Break program partners with school districts and organizations to enable PreK and elementary school students to select ten brand new books to take home and keep forever, before and during summer break.
Students choose from a diverse selection of brand new, high-interest titles, including bilingual books in English and Spanish.
Books on Break 2025 reached 10,420 elementary school students in 30 schools across eight North Carolina counties with 104,200 new books. In addition, 7,320 students in summer programs across 47 N.C. counties self-selected 73,200 new books.
Interested in bringing Books on Break to your district, school, or organization?
Submit the interest form below or contact, Rachel Stine, Senior Director of Books on Break, for details and pricing. rachel@bookharvest.org.
Why Books on Break Matters
• Increasing access to self-selected books for summer reading is an effective strategy for lowering summer reading setback and narrowing the income-based achievement gap among students. [1]
• Programs that encourage home-based reading during the summer have been proven to be effective in stemming summer learning loss. [2]
• Successive years of book provision confers benefits equal to or more than those from successive years of summer school at a fraction of the cost. [3] [4]
