Between The Pages empowers children to discover a life-long love of reading using books as tools to immerse economically disadvantaged and avid readers in an engaging recreation of their favorite books, fostering literacy, creative play, creative writing and cooperative problem solving.

Do you remember your favorite book as a child and wondering what it would be like to live in that world with those characters? 

At Between the Pages, we make that happen. 

We offer Creative Play Literacy Programs designed to reach children from 5th-12th grades by building an active and supportive community of empowered readers and writers. We offer these programs both online and to at-risk schools, reaching children and students where they live, work, and play through the teachers and librarians that they know and trust.

Who do we reach? Children ages 8-18 yrs

What do we do? Distribute culturally relevant books to economically disadvantaged students, engage the children in dramatic readings and creative roleplay, encourage creative writing and print the student’s work in an anthology they keep.

Where does it happen? Online and at economically disadvantaged schools. 

When does it happen? During the school day, typically during library time. In the early evenings, online, after school is out.

Why does it work? Creative roleplay with books representing the students’ own culture, allows them to see themselves as heroes who can make a difference, and books as being relevant to them.

What do they learn? Improves reading literacy, reading aloud, promotes ownership of books and library as a safe space, many students who ‘never liked books, leave with their very own favorite book.

How do we know it works? Teacher/Librarian-based exit survey of motivation, book ownership, and students from lower grades enthusiastically. requesting the program for themselves next year – seeing it as a perk of the upper grades

How is it supported? Individual donations, grants, volunteer time