The 10th annual Local 10 Big Book Drive kicked off Wednesday morning with an exciting start!

Local 10 News and the Big Book Drive is aiming to help South Florida students engage in reading. Hear what it did for a third-grade student in Broward County.

Local 10 News is hosted its ninth annual Big Book Drive in South Florida on Wednesday.

Local 10 News is hosting its ninth annual Big Book Drive in South Florida on Wednesday.

The Local 10 Big Book Drive has collected and distributed over 150,000 books to South Florida kids and is looking to add to that number on Wednesday.

Now in its 8th year, the Big Book Drive is looking to gift an additional 5,000 brand new books over the summer.

Once the schools are selected, our Local 10 crew visits those schools and distributes the new books to every student. This year, we will be following that same model while adhering to COVID-19 safety protocols at the respective elementary and middle schools.

The Local 10 Big Book Drive is going five years strong. This year, because of the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing guidelines, its morphing into a Big Book Drive-Thru. Since we launched the book drive in 2016, more than 125,000 books have been collected and distributed to children in South Florida. Local 10 is working with public schools in the tri-county area for parents to pick up the books with their children at the schools. The Big Book Drive is part of Local 10s My Future, My Choice initiative, which was created to address youth gun violence and help pave a path to solutions.