Ashlee
Ennis, TX
Favorite books as kid: The Phantom Tollbooth, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The button was definitely awesome. It was on my backpack, all the cool kids had one. But even better was the fact that I read faster than my lil’ sister, so I got more pizza than her.

Yasmeen
Seattle, WA
Favorite book(s) as kid: Julie of the Wolves
Everything about the BOOK IT! Program, but especially the status afforded by donning the jumbo hologram button (it's proudly displayed in my bookcase today, more than 15 years later!). Getting to finally wear the button on my jean jacket was like a modern-day rite of passage as a budding bookworm. Equally memorable was driving home from Pizza Hut, in the back of my folks' Chevrolet, with a hot personal pan pizza on my lap. I practically was on a first-name basis with the Pizza Hut employees in Columbus, Georgia. Pride for me back then was wearing my BOOK IT! button and redeeming countless personal pan pizza vouchers.

Kim
Westminster, MD
Favorite book(s) as kid: Island of the Blue Dolphins
My family didn't have a lot of money, so when I received my free book it pizza, it meant my family went out for the night. Mom and Dad could get a sandwich or split a pizza themselves and I got my own personal pan pizza. It was incredibly fun. It was a great reward and a good memory.

Micah Munger
Phoenix, AZ

Laura Read
Beaumont, TX