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The achievement gap that exists between lowincome and highincome children can be narrowed or even closed by giving books to lowincome kids Our Mission Improve access to appropriate books fun literacy enrichment activities in Harlem. Building Culturally Conscious Home Libraries Making Reading Fun We are Read it and Leave it. Lets make reading cool Read It and Leave It is a grassroots organization tackling this challenge in a creative threepronged approach to impact the reading skills of children in lowincome communities Illiteracy and crime are closely related. The Department of Justice states The link between academic failure and delinquency violence and crime is welded to reading failure.