TURBOTVILLE — The allure of free donuts has stimulated competition among students at Warrior Run High School in the third annual book drive. The homeroom donating the most books gets the donuts.

This year’s book drive, coordinated by the high school reading club and Kay Rhinehart, the high school librarian, is actually two parallel collections.

One drive, Rhinehart said, is for the Samuel J. Green Charter School, a K-8 school in New Orleans, which saw its library destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The other drive is gathering books for the Books for Africa program.

According to Samantha “Samm” Tobias of the reading club, the response this year has been amazing.

“We’ve been posting the tally for each homeroom every day, and the juniors and seniors are really into it,” she said. “They’re very competitive in everything they do.”

She estimated that nearly 400 books have been collected so far.

Michael Kramer, a junior, has been making daily announcements over the school’s public address system.

“The competition is pretty exciting,” he said. “I wish we could figure out how to get the freshman and sophomores involved.”

Mindy Jacobs, the third key student in the drive, said she made posters displayed around the school and also updates the tally board outside the library every day.

“People stop all the time to see which homeroom is ahead,” she reported.

The drive ends today, when members of the reading club will look through the donated books to make sure they are good enough to ship. They will box them up and mail them on Tuesday.

Teachers also get to participate, with a “jeans day” on Feb. 6. Teachers may wear jeans if they contribute $2 to the book drive fund.

Rhinehart explained that the books for New Orleans must be in like-new condition. In addition to books, the drive for New Orleans will also accept money. The national sponsor of the drive, the Heart of America Foundation, can buy books for $1 each.

The Books for Africa project is looking for books that are less than 10 years old. Rhinehart said the students must watch for books with religious subjects since some will be sent to Muslim countries. The collected books will be sent to St. Paul, Minn., and loaded into a cargo container for shipment to Africa.

The reading club, according to Tobias, meets during the activity period and is primarily people who enjoy reading. During the school year, club members make at least one trip to each of the district’s elementary schools to read to younger students.