In Gates County, North Carolina, high school and middle school Peers Empowering Peers (PEP) volunteers promote literacy by producing book dramatizations for and with students at local elementary schools, and through mentoring and tutoring activities. PEP is a youth leadership program based on community service and peer helping, serving under the auspices of the Learn and Serve Program. This effective practice describes the program, and was submitted by Reba Green-Holley with the North Carolina Extension Service, Gates County Center, in October 2002.