United Bank of Atmore, Ala. is helping local students receive free books by working with literacy nonprofit First Book. First Book provides access to free new books for children in need. United Bank will pay shipping and handling to send the books to Pre-K and kindergarten students at Perdido Elementary School. In addition to delivering the books, United Bank Executive Assistant Tonya Lambert took time to read a story in each of the classrooms. "The best part about the initiative is that students can bring the books home and don’t have to return them," said Lambert. “They said, ‘you mean I don’t have to bring this book back? This is my own book?’”