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.

It was the seventh year for Local 10's Big Book Drive.