CAMAS — Mid-June is typically a time when teachers empty out their classrooms for the summer, but on a sweltering Wednesday afternoon, Jennifer Scott and her husband lugged thousands of books into the Camas School District offices.

The books had spent the last month-plus in their garage after Scott and some colleagues in the district hosted a book drive. With nowhere else to put the books, she took them home until some room in the district offices opened up.

The books will rotate in and out of a van this summer as Scott and other volunteers run the Camas School District Summer Book MoVan, a mobile library that will operate Wednesdays around the district. The books available will be geared toward students in kindergarten through fifth grade.

“Students who don’t read over the summer can lose two to three months of reading skills,” said Scott, who works in Camas as a K-5 teacher on special assignment. “Kids who read can gain a month of skills. It wouldn’t feel right to not do something.”

The books were donated to the mobile library by families and teachers in the district. The project has been a dream of Scott and Diane Loghry, director of early learning in the district.