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Penguin Books has begun its "Read a book, Give a book" campaign this month. How can you give books to needy children? By reading a book to your children. Log on and read a book online with your child. Then, you can donate that book to children in New York City, Haiti, or Africa. There are many separate campaigns this year: 1. Jumpstart Reading Libraries . This campaign helps create libraries in preschools across the USA. 2. The Million Word Challenge. 3. Tinga Tinga Tales: East Africa: 4. Conspiracy for Good: A teacher in Zambia reaches out to seek books for her students. 5. Books for Asia. 6. Family Story Power: Books for New York City libraries: All of these campaigns offer you the chance to share literacy with children across the world, while also sharing a story with your child!

Growing up in poverty and constantly on the move, she used her troubled childhood to bring her success as an adult. Author of "Amazon Top 10 Book of the Decade," The Glass Castle has remained on the New York Times best-seller list for more than three years. Soon you can see it on screen-it is being made into a movie by Paramount! Another book to movie and back . The book describes her life growing up with her family. She had a unique childhood where she spent a long period without indoor plumbing and went hungry on a regular basis. However, her parents still encouraged her to read Shakespeare and dream of the glass house they would one day live in. Walls moved to New York City at the age of 16 to enroll in Barnard College. After graduation, she become a popular columnist for New York magazine and eventually MSNBC.com. The follow up to this book is titled " Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel ", which is the story of her maternal grandmother's life in the ea...