Every year about 280 young Vermont women give birth before their own 18th birthdays. Many have not completed high school or have low literacy skills. Building on the research that links school success to whether one is read to as a child and that shows the importance of conversation to learning, the Vermont Council on the Humanities has developed a series of literacy classes using childrenÌs literature for teen mothers and their children. The Council sets up the Read With Me: Teen Parent Project; contracts with trained scholars, including librarians, teachers and university professors and others, to conduct the sessions and contracts with the 12 regional centers of the Vermont Department of Health or local parent-child centers to run the programs. It also selects and provides the childrenÌs books, which participants get to keep. The Council also is working with home visitors to extend the Project to teens and their children who may not be able to come to the sites and to reinforce the importance of effective oral reading to child development among Read With Me participants. This Project is only one of the new readers series that the Vermont Council on the Humanities developed as part of its Connections program.