Saturday, June 2, 2012

Lilli leight

  • It started out a one-time bat-mitzvah project. But three years, 5,000 books, and almost 200 volunteering hours, Lilli Leight is nowhere near putting her literary mission to rest.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Lilli Leight loves A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. The 15-year-old loves the classic novel's exploration of perseverance, tenacity and hard luck, as well as the metaphor shared by its title, so much that she is reading it for the fourth time.
  • (Miami Herald)
  • The library is the result of nearly three years of work by Lilli Leight, now 15 years old; her efforts were honored this month when she was named one of the winners of the Innovations in Reading Prize by the National Book Foundation.
  • (Publishers Weekly)

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