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Books Between Kids

Building home libraries for children in need

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Every Child Deserves to be a Book Owner

Books Between Kids is a non-profit organization serving Houston’s at-risk children by providing them with books to build their own home libraries.


Making a Difference

About 85% of Houston ISD’s elementary-aged children live at or below the poverty line.  Priorities for these children and their families are food, clothing and shelter – all other items fall into the category of “want”.  Research has shown that children growing up in homes without books, where books are considered a luxury, are less likely to complete a basic education than their peers who do have books available at home (University of Nevada, 2010).

Books Between Kids strives to change this by collecting gently used books and distributing them to children in need.  Please join us in our mission to put books into the hands of Houston’s children by making a financial donation, giving books, organizing a book drive or volunteering your time!

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Our Impact


Books Distributed to Kids Since May 2013. We are transforming lives book by book!

Our Programs


Books Between Kids addresses a desperate need in our community, the need for children to have access to books outside of school.  Since we were founded, in the Fall of 2012, our mission has been to get books into the hands of economically disadvantaged children in Houston.

Throughout the year, we collect new and gently-used books, sort them, and prepare them for distribution to children in Greater Houston. We currently operate three book distribution programs: Book Celebrations on the campuses of partner schools, Community Partner distributions, and the Book A Month program. 

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This school year was one for the books! We hosted This school year was one for the books! We hosted 56 Book Celebrations in HISD elementary schools and early childhood centers! 

Over 29,000 HISD students had the opportunity to choose 6 books each to take home and keep! Thank you to each of our school coordinators who help make these Book Celebrations possible!
We are so proud to have been selected for #TheStar We are so proud to have been selected for #TheStarbucksFoundation #NeighborhoodGrants. Thank you to the Starbucks partners (employees) in our community!
This week, eight schools hosted their BBK Book Cel This week, eight schools hosted their BBK Book Celebration just in time for summer vacation! Over 4,900 kids were able to choose six books each to take home and keep! That’s a total of 32,560 books!!🎉🎉
Our Breakfast Bingo was a huge success! We are so Our Breakfast Bingo was a huge success! We are so grateful to each of you who attended, donated and played for the kids!

We can’t wait to see all of the kids who will become book owners thanks to your support and we’re looking forward to 10 more years of filling bookshelves in Houston!
We can’t wait to see you tomorrow morning at Bre We can’t wait to see you tomorrow morning at Breakfast Bingo! We have more than $15,000 worth of prizes and raffle items that have been generously donated. We can’t wait to see who wins them!
Books Between Kids has the best volunteers! In 202 Books Between Kids has the best volunteers! In 2023, we’ve had 613 volunteers help out in our warehouse for a total of 1,764.75 hours!!

We are so grateful to have passionate volunteer groups like these pictured, who support our mission and help us get books to kids!

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