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Apr 03, 2014
Meet 12-year-old Maria of Minnesota, who set a goal of collecting and distributing one million books to underprivileged children in six years to “make the world a better place, one book at a time.” (At publication time, she had already acquired over 800,000 books!) Meet Ethan and Noah of St. Catherines, Ontario, ages 12 and 9 years, who, aware that many children can’t play hockey because their families can’t afford the necessary equipment, collected and donated a number of vans full of new and gently-used hockey equipment to underprivileged families. Later, they even expanded their project to include soccer equipment. Meet Tyler, a teen who lives in California. When he discovered that children are still today being sold into slavery in some parts of Africa, he not only raised the money needed to rescue and free over one hundred such children, but he also established a Kids Helping Kids organization. These are some of the “ordinary” kids who have done extraordinary things to “pay it forward”, helping to make the world a better place. Many other young people have been impelled to join their causes or even to start their own. This inspiring book demonstrates how even the smallest acts of kindness and generosity can ripple, creating a chain reactions from which big changes can happen. Author Nancy Runstedler lives in Paris, Ontario.