This campaign is bringing summer reading to kids in 'book deserts'

When Jarrett Lerner offered to mail a stack of books to a class of kids to take home for the summer, he didn't expect the response. More than 1,000 teachers raised their hands.

The educators told Lerner they had been using their own paychecks to get books for their kids, many of whom lived in so-called book deserts, where children don't have easy access to books.

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