Through the Open Books Buddies program, adult volunteers and elementary school students experience the joy of reading together each week at schools around Chicagoland.

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What are Adventures In Creative Writing? FREE 2-hour writing workshops to help 4th - 12th grade students become proud authors and lifelong writers.

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In April 2008, we asked 5th graders at Schiller Elementary to write letters to the next U.S. president about their neighborhood and the nation. Nearly all the students wrote about how much they would love to see plants and flowers around their school and the Cabrini-Green housing projects where they live. We’re thrilled to announce the expansion of an inspiring project – the Open Books Reading Garden! It started with the dreams of our students, and we need your help to make those dreams come true.

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In November 2007, students from Kelli Rushek's class at George Henry Corliss High School participated in one of our write-in sessions for National Novel Writing Month. We were so inspired by working with them that we decided to publish their novels...and so was born Open Books Press.

Learn more and meet the Corliss Novelists!