Literacy is one of the fundamental basic skills. It is a key to learning, personal development, satisfaction in one's everyday life and success in working life. Literacy skills are needed continually: to express oneself and strengthen one’s identity, improve the ability to feel empathy, communicate and interact with others, obtain and share information, participate actively in the surrounding society, understand different cultures and experience new worlds through reading fiction. Literacy is also one of the Europe 2020 growth strategy’s objectives. Literacy skills can be developed through extensive reading, but the latest Pisa studies have shown a declining tendency in students’ interest in reading. Our project Hooked on Books –motivating students to enhance their literacy skills through reading fiction for pleasure– focuses on improving students’ literacy skills mainly by reading fiction and on motivating the students so that they get a real interest in reading and it becomes a lifelong hobby. Students who are highly engaged in a wide range of reading activities are more likely than other students to be effective learners and to perform well at school. Another objective of the project is to compare the literature teaching curricula of the participating countries and to share good practices and test them in participants’ own classrooms. The project aims at creating new teaching material on literature and innovative teaching methods for everyday work. All the documentation will be available in eTwinning TwinSpace for everyone interested to use and benefit from. There are schools from three countries participating in this project: Finland, Hungary and Romania. In each school a group of 2-3 professional teachers coordinates the project. Also in each school a group of 10-20 students takes actively part in the project, the total number of participants thus being approximately 40-60 each year. These students are 15-16 years old and chosen out of volunteers interested in literature and willing to commit themselves in the project. The project comprises various activities throughout the school year. The students of the active group take responsibility of most of the project’s activities: They prepare and carry out e-surveys for all the students and their parents and interpret the information gathered with them. They interview their literature teachers and local librarians. They prepare presentations of significant authors of their own country during the past hundred years and contemporary writers of youth literature in their own country. The students give out reading tips to their peers to inspire them to read fiction for fun. Peer learning will be emphasized, so that also weaker readers will find out about the advantages of reading for pleasure. Their motivation to read will increase when they participate in the activities organized in their school by the students of the active group. In addition, there will be three transnational project meetings, once in each participating country. Using TwinSpace forms a big part of the project. It is used e.g. for preparing the project, introducing the participants, their schools and hometowns with written descriptions and pictures, communicating with other participants, documenting the progress of the project on a regular basis and presenting its results. The participating students share in TwinSpace their work, e.g. essays of their favourite books and e-survey results. A reading challenge for the students and a contest for the project’s logo will be launched in TwinSpace and a permanent forum for the students’ reading tips will be created, which is expected to remain active even after the completion of the project. The expected impact on the participants is improved key competences needed in lifelong learning and especially enhanced literacy skills. The project will improve the participants' communication in the mother tongue and in foreign language, social and digital competence. Students’ knowledge of the literature of the participating countries will increase. The participants will have an Europass to make their skills visible and to help learning and working in Europe in the future. The project will also increase parents’ interest to support their children to improve their literacy skills. The project produces information of students’ reading habits and motivation to read, the books students read and how they are chosen and the relevance of fiction to its readers. The project will raise participants’ awareness of their European identity and Europe’s cultural diversity. The European dimension gives added value to the project as students can compare their reading habits with those of their peers in the other countries and motivate each other to read more and various kinds of literature.