Students brought in hundreds of books in exchange for tokens. The tokens could then be redeemed for the variety of books donated by the students.

Simone Goudreau, J.H. Sissons librarian, estimated over 500 books were brought in.

"There are so many I can't even count," she said as a student brought in eight more. There were a few students whose cups were literally runneth over with tokens.

Goudreau said that is when the Christmas spirit of giving kicked in.

"They decided they wanted to donate some back.

"So, they put tokens in the donation jar. The kids were donating to kids without books," she said.

Over 200 tokens were donated and distributed to students who were identified in need of a few more books at home.

Goudreau said there were also a few individual donations where students gave friends tokens who they knew may need a few extra.

"What is really cool is they were donating before they knew what books were going to be here. It's not like they came in and didn't see anything they liked and then donated," she said.

"It was totally in the spirit of giving."

A lot of popular books were brought in, such as Harry Potter, Magic Tree House, The Screech Owl series and a host of other popular children's book.

Goudreau said the students really got into the book exchange and thinks one should be done next for the teachers.