Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is a national program that seeks to motivate children to read. Implemented by local sponsors and aimed at disadvantaged groups, it offers participating children a wide selection of attractive paperback books about interesting people, places, and events. The multisite evaluation summarized in this report studied children, their parents, their teachers, and the RIF delivery agents in six sites in different parts of the nation. The evaluation investigated both the outcomes and the process of project operations, though results related to process are not dealt with in detail in this report. Matched samples of fifth graders and second graders, half of whom were attending RIF programs and half were not, were interviewed and tested in the study. Among the generally favorable findings was the fact that RIF students exhibited more positive feelings about being in the presence of books, though RIF did not appear to be affecting children's more general views of school and of reading. (AA)