Book Harvest, Durham Parks team up with book boxes

To ensure that kids are reading all summer, Durham Parks and Recreation and local nonprofit Book Harvest have partnered to install book boxes at two parks across the city. The book boxes will provide families in Durham with ongoing access to literacy resources so they can thrive in school and life, according to a press release.

Residents can access the boxes at the I.R. Holmes, Sr. Recreation Center at Campus Hills and Edison Johnson Recreation Center during their regular operating hours, according to the city. The boxes are stocked regularly with new and gently-used, culturally inclusive books for children ages 0 to 18. Children can keep the books they select, the city says.

The book boxes are part of Book Harvest's bigger vision to distribute 85,000 books to kids this summer.

Book Harvest could always use donations of new or gently used children's books. You can drop them off at any time at the Book Harvest donation bin at 2501 University Dr., Durham.