Students at Glenlawn Collegiate got to read books in a unique way today.

The event is called "Living Library", where Glenlawn invited 50 special guests, or "Human Books", to their school, and then 500 students had the chance to ask questions, and to have a conversation about the lives of the books. It is the 6th time that the high school has put on this event.

Organizer and teacher Charlotte Duggan says that the response of the students to this event has been fantastic. "Initially it's strange, you're going to have a conversation with someone you've never met before," she said. "But within seconds, the human (connection) takes over and people just have a conversation with each other."

"I thought it was super interesting," said Skyler, a student from Glenlawn Collegiate. "(These stories) need to get out to the whole world."

"I didn't think I could get so attached to someone in the 30 minutes that we were talking," said Taylor, another student from Glenlawn. "It was just so inspiring."

Isabelle said that it was neat to learn different perspectives from the Human Books. "If you talk to multiple people, then you see their mottos. You can put them all together and make one motto," she said.

Duggan believes that there is a positive outcome with a concept like this. "It's just establishing a context to have a conversation, and giving people the freedom to say 'I'm an open book; I'm here to be read by you and I want you to know my story'," she said. "When we hear someone else's story, it changes us."