As a library board member, Christian Harris champions reading and readers. He especially wants to see more young boys experience the kinds of pleasure and discoveries he finds in books.

The Oak Park Public Library understands what it takes to get kids to read: engage their interests. 

Parents, more often than not, are their child's first reading teacher. All those enjoyable moments reading bedtime stories and paging through picture books make up the first reading lessons as a child takes in new words and phrases and the magic of reading begins to happen.

After District 97's summer school session ended, 55 students attended another four-week  academic program run by the E-Team, an education equity initiative based at the Oak Park Public Library.