WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Students and staff at a local elementary school, full of kids that don’t own a book of their own, cheered as a new book vending machine was unveiled thanks to a grant from the district’s new education foundation.

Hubbard Elementary unveiled the “Jag Book Stop” after the Hubbard Education Foundation gifted the $10,000 machine to the school.

Leeann Ivy is a reading interventionist at the elementary school and a board member of the foundation.

She was thrilled with the student’s response to the free books.

“The kids were crazy excited,” Ivy said. “Many children don’t own a book of their own.”

The grant was written by fourth grader Hubbard teacher Tina Baker who said every child deserves to own their own book.

The books include everything from one on Martin Luther Ki

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