. >> reporter: 16-year-old eric gann bears gifts, boxes of donated books.junior at san mateo's high school founded books for all three years ago to inspire children to read. >> is part of the reason i wanted to work with elementary schools, that was where i got my passion for reading. >> reporter: eric wanted to give books to scrolls, schools serving low income students so he did the research, and found an elementary school. his parents drive him some three hours from home where eric delivers to grateful principles. >> it's refreshing to have the community, to want to give back to students and children in need. >> reporter: this library gets only $2200 a year to serve its 600 students so librarian stephanie aguilar welcomes the yearly donations from eric. >> it's like christmas. >> reporter: he brings free supplies for teachers and books for students from stories to science, facts to fantasy. >> they are just grinning from ear to ear and super excited that we got more books. they love it. >> reporter: so far eric has given way more than 1000 new and used bo