1 . Seven-year-old Maggie Kuznia loves books, but she seems to love sharing the stories she reads even more. Qnce or twice a week, the little girl puts a few books in her backpack and gets ready to _______ the elderly at Good Samaritan Society.

Maggie’s mom, Tiffany Kuznia, works as the activity director at the retirement facility and often brings her daughter with her to _______. One day, as little Maggie was packing her bag, Tiffany Kuznia _______ her to bring her toys. Maggie quickly replied that she had _______ plans for the day. “I’m going to bring books and I’m going to read to the residents.” she _______.

With time, Maggie has become so beloved among the residents that she even has “_______” she reads to every week. She often visits each one for over an hour with her mom regularly checking in on her to make sure she isn’t overstaying her _______. Much to Maggie’s _______, the residents are more than happy to have her around for extended periods of time. The _______ usually leads to coloring books and doing puzzles with her elderly friends, who ________ Maggie a granddaughter of their own.

Maggie hopes to inspire other kids of her age to read to the elderly. ________ polishing her reading abilities and having a group of devoted ________, her senior friends are always ready to help her when she trips up on a ________ word. As for the residents, Maggie seems to ________ their day. “I think the intergenerational part is so good,” Patti Griggs, a resident Maggie has befriended, said. “Everybody likes to have the ________ of another person and be special to them.”

2 . I was a high school senior. One day, I skipped classes and walked into the ________. I spotted a book called The Treasure of Pleasant Valley written by Frank Yerby. Its name really ________ me, but I didn’t want others to know I was reading books because I was a troubled boy then. So I just ________ the book. After I had finished reading it, I took it back. When I ________ it, I saw another book ________ written by Frank Yerby. So I thought, maybe I’d read that, too. So I put it under my jacket and later I took it back. That semester, I ________ a total of four books by Frank Yerby.

Years later, I met Mrs. Grady, the teacher who had been the ________ . She told me she had seen me taking the first book. She said her first ________ had been “to go and tell the boy, you don’t have to steal a book”. You can ________ borrow them from the library and pay nothing. They’re ________ .” Then she realized I didn’t want anybody to ________ I was reading. So she decided that if I liked the book, she would ________another one for me to read.

And every time I took a ________ book out, she began to look for another. This wasn’t ________ because books were hard to get in those days. I was ________ to Mrs. Grady for getting me into the habit of enjoying reading so that I could eventually go to law school.