What do you do when one of the few bookstores in your neighborhood shuts down?

If you were Latanya DeVaughn, you would make a new and improved one! The mom and writer, who lives in the Bronx of New York City, had always dreamed of opening her own bookstore. Therefore, after watching the bookstore in her community closed, she saw her chance and got creative. While Latanya said every neighborhood deserved a bookstore, opening physical stores on every block simply wasn’t an option. So she decided to bring the books to her neighbors by turning a bus into a bookmobile. “With the bus, every neighborhood in the Bronx can have a bookstore even if it’s just for one day,” Latanya said.

With the help of her community, she raised the money for her dream and, at the end of 2021, it came to be. Bronx Bound Books rolled out in style as a bus with orange cube bookshelves and wood floors. “People love the way it smells, ” Latanya added, “One women says that the wood smell makes her feel like she is reading at home.”

Although the bookstore on wheels carries around 3,000 new and used books, it has more room than you might expect! Latanya also makes sure that she stocks books with various characters, so all readers can see themselves in the pages.

Setting up a bookshop in a new place each day, Latanya is doing her part to make reading accessible to everyone in the Bronx, and she’s just getting started. “I can’t open up a bookstore on every comer, but I can probably pop up on a lot of different corners,” she said.

Thanks to Latanya and Bronx Bound Books, the Bronx is becoming a peaceful place for book lovers day by day. We’re sure the little bookstore will continue to develop.

It was Mother’s Day morning last year. My son, a five-year-old boy     25    ( name) Tom, and I were leaving the supermarket after shopping. Suddenly an old woman    26    (fall)over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground.Her husband was with her,but the woman was    27    (serious) hurt and shaking with pain.

At the front of the supermarket a charity group was selling some beautiful     28    (flower)to raise funds. Tom wanted    29    (buy)the lady a flower. “It will make her feel better” he said. I was    30    (surprise)that he’d come up with such a sweet idea. So we went to the flower seller to buy a flower    31    the lady. By now rescuers had arrived,and they were    32    (take) care of the injured woman. As we walked up to her,my son became scared by all the blood and medical equipment. He said he was just too scared to go up to her.

Instead I gave the flower to the woman’s husband    33    told him,“ My son was very upset for your wife and bought her this flower to cheer her up. ”At that moment,the old man was moved and said,“Thank you so much,you have     34    good son. Happy Mother’s Day to you. ”

The man then gave his wife the flower,telling her who it was from. Although badly hurt,the old lady looked up at Tenyson with thanks in her eyes and gave him a little smile.