ADAMS — Looking for a quality read at an affordable price — a good yarn or a historical account? Maybe a lightly used children’s book?

The Book Room in the former Notre Dame School may have just what you’re looking for.

The Book Room opened on Saturday in a classroom at the former Notre Dame School in Adams.

It's both a revival and a new twist on an earlier incarnation that closed in October in the same building.

The Book Room occupies a freshly painted classroom and is open 9 a.m. to noon Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. These hours and days coincide with collection times for the church’s annual tag sale in August.

A stone's throw from McKinley Square behind Notre Dame Church on Maple Street, the Book Room is full of neatly organized and labeled books in several categories, but mostly fiction, nonfiction, history and children’s books. There are also puzzles.

Proceeds from sales of all books and puzzles go toward operations for the parish.

Diane Wyman, who lives in Adams and is a parishioner of St. John Paul II Parish, pulled together a group of volunteers who tracked down the books that had been part of the previous collection, painted and decorated the room, organized donations and opened the store.

“We weren't sure where they were all donated, so it was just some phone calls,” she said. “Goodwill in North Adams happened to have a lot of the books.”

Many of the volumes at the Book Room in Adams focus on history.

She said staff there offered to allow volunteers to pick them.

"They hadn't even put them out yet or anything,” she said. “It was hundreds of books.”

Wyman said the Book Room looks different from the old one.

It also has donations from the Cheshire library.

“We changed it up,” she said. “It’s got a whole new vibe to it now. Floors have been painted. ... We have bookcases. It’s just a wonderful, peaceful room to shop for books.”

DVDs are as cheap as 50 cents at the Book Room in the former Notre Dame School in Adams.

The volunteers are using the gymnasium as an overflow room to sort new arrivals.

Cookbooks, encyclopedias, self-help books and dictionaries are not accepted. But these and other rejects will find homes — potentially at the Old Stone Mill.

On Wednesday, Chris Koperniak came with a box full of books and then returned with puzzles that had been in his mother’s collection.

Volunteers planned to bag the puzzle pieces prior to putting them out for sale.

Barbara Steuer was working on Wednesday with parishioner Patricia Rougeau.

Steuer isn’t a parishioner or a churchgoer.

“I just have a love of books,” she said

Someone asked her to consider joining this effort.

The children's corner at the Book Room is organized by age.

“We all work together,” she said. “It took about three months, and finally we opened this past Saturday. Opening day was phenomenal. There wasn’t one second when there wasn’t a customer in this room. It made our hearts happy to see that.”