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Low-income and under-resourced communities are often unable to access much-needed literacy resources and supports. Challenges such as...

Book Harvest just won a Literacy Award from the Library of Congress – one of only 15 winners worldwide! Aaron chats with executive...

Ginger Young, founder and executive director of Book Harvest, said the premature end of last school year combined with the psychological...

I was born in Guatemala. I grew up speaking Spanish and English, which made me quite the Spanglish baby/child/teenager (must admit, I’m...

The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR) announced today the communities that are Pacesetters for their work during 2019 to support...

Launched in Durham County in 2013, this groundbreaking evidence-informed home visiting program provides 20 new age-appropriate books to part

Traditional efforts — like summer reading programs and storytimes — could be difficult this summer with social distancing guidelines. But...

Julie Smith, a licensed counselor for Child First, an intensive home visiting program that provides mental health support to young...

Kids are out of school. Parents are home from work. At Book Harvest, a children’s literacy organization in North Carolina, we’re as...

The Durham Public School System hosts meal sites across the county to feed families in need each week. Recently, educators have become...

In the few months it was open before the pandemic closed its doors, Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews was full of people: customers browsing...

COVID-19’s presence in our city and state and, indeed, throughout the country and the nation, brings uncertainty and unease. Governor Roy...

As child care facilities struggle to decide whether to close during the coronavirus pandemic, many parents might face a lot more time at...

As we all dramatically change the way we’re living our lives during this coronavirus pandemic, local businesses are struggling, including...

Our own Ginger Young was delighted to join Molly Ness, host of the End Book Deserts podcast, to talk about Book Harvest: where we’ve come...

“Everyone needs to become a good reader so that when they are an adult they will have a better life,” said 6-year-old Jade Vaughan-Bey...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream — and so does Book Harvest, a Durham nonprofit that hosted its ninth annual Dream Big Book Drive and...

Can buying a book combat racism? It can, when the characters look like the current population. Pediatrician Jacqueline Dongé agrees....

Bria Wurst has always loved reading. As a child, she would read at the dinner table until her mother reminded her to put away her book...

Many of us — teachers, parents, policymakers, business leaders — have been wringing our hands at the Oct. 30th release of the National...