“We got it! We got it! I read about her!” a boy shouts, his hand stretched as high as it can toward the ceiling. “She loves books!” He did have it. The answer to the activism quiz question was Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Pakistan.
The excited young man was one of 16 boys and girls attending the first meeting of a new book club at Promise House, a shelter and service agency for homeless and at-risk children in Dallas, Texas in the United States.
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