Books4Schools puts donated books into classrooms, school libraries, and community programs. In our mission to support literacy where access to books is limited, our local schools come first.
TEACHERS
Stock your classroom — free, no restrictions.
Teachers and schools have unlimited access to our free bookstores in Avondale and Uptown. Come in during open hours and take the books your classroom needs — no appointment, no paperwork, no limits.
Bring your class on a field trip
Classes are welcome to visit the free bookstore as a field trip — students browse the shelves and every one of them leaves with books of their own. It’s a favorite outing for local schools. Contact us to plan a visit for your class.
Need books for a whole school or program?
For larger needs — a new charter school, a library restock, a community literacy program — we fill requests directly. We work with schools and organizations in the Midwest and Northeast, from a few hundred books to several thousand. Contact us with what you need and we’ll see what we can do.
Schools we’ve supplied
Over the years, Books4Schools has placed thousands of books with schools and youth organizations, including Baden Academy (5,000 books), Oscar de la Hoya Charter High School (1,000), Science Academy of Chicago (1,000+), Bernie’s Book Bank (1,000+), Charles H. Houston School, Proviso East High School, Cheder Lubavitch, and the BetterBoys Organization. Today, most of our classroom distribution happens through the free bookstores — where teachers shop every week.
Have books to give instead? Your donations are what stock our shelves for teachers and schools. Find a drop-off location or request a pickup for 250+ boxed books.