It was Jennifer Williams’ mother who got her interested in books. A librarian, she read to her three________every day until they went to college. When Williams became a________, she wanted her students to love reading as she did. But she realized that some kids had limited________to books.

“It’s very obvious to teachers which kids are________to and which kids are not,” she said. To Williams, the________was simple: Give kids books. In 2017, she gave away 900 used children’s________over three days. Most people would be satisfied with that.

“Anybody could do that,” she said. “I just________to do something that was going to stretch my faith, my work ethic, my everything.” So she set a new________for herself: Give away one million books. It sounds like a(n)________number, but as Williams posted on Facebook: “Don’t complain if you aren’t willing to work hard out on the field.”

So she got to work, first by________friends to donate books or money to buy books. And as news of Williams’ project spread, strangers started________books on her front porch(门廊). As the books came in, Williams gave them to local schools, free of________.

Now, Williams has________more than 78,000 books — only 922 ,000 more to reach her goal! And she’s not slowing down. It’s too________for kids with few options.

“Reading can take you anywhere,” she said. “You can travel in time and space. If you can read, you can learn almost________.”

The young woman entered the pool where an injured dolphin was swimming. Despite her fear, she felt strong wearing her new leg.

In her second grade, Maja _______ her cousin, Jasmina. After Jasmina’s death, Maja swore she would honor the little girl by _______ with a dolphin, an animal that both girls _______ . “ Jasmina never got the chance to do it.” says Maja, now 32, “so I _______ that someday I’d do it for her.”

In high school, Maja was _______ about sports. She even planned to become an athlete _______ , in 1993, during the civil war in her home country, a bomb _______ her left leg.

After two years’ _______ in the U.S. , Maja received her first artificial leg, but _______ it didn’t fit well, walking for Maja was very painful. ________ , she managed to graduate from a local high school. Then after receiving a ________ from Saint Francis University, she got a job at an insurance firm and ________ started her own company.

To relax, Maja ________ often watch the dolphins play at an aquarium near her home. A young dolphin, Winter, who had lost its tail, caught her ________ . One day, Maja happened to see trainers ________ Winter with a high-tech tail. When they were done, Winter swam freely in the water Maja was ________ . She managed to find the Inventors of Winter’s tail. Within ten days, she had a new leg which freed her of the ________ that had troubled her for almost 16 years.

Now Maja was ready to keep her ________ . She went to the aquarium, lowered the pool and held out a hand to Winter, who approached ________ , then swam away. After a few minutes, the dolphin let Maja ________ its back. Finally, the two began to swim around the pool together.

As a teenager in the 1990s, Melissa Blake was interested in fashion. Unfortunately, fashion wasn’t much interested in her.

Blake, who has a genetic bone and muscle ________ and stands a little under four feet tall, couldn’t find jeans or dresses in her size. ________ through Glamour(时尚杂志), she didn’t see a single person who looked like her, and it ________. “When you’re a teenager—disabled or not—you deal with issues of ________. If I had seen someone who looked like me, I would have felt really seen.”

Blake, now 39, has spent her adult life trying to ________ for that. She is a disability-rights ________ as well as a little-known freelance writer, but she gained a national following in 2019 after ________ at those who made ugly comments about her online.

She tweeted, “people said that I should be banned from ________ photos of myself because I’m too ________.” In one of the preatest “I’ll show you!” ________ of all time, over the next year, Blake displayed a new selfie every day.

Her fans went wild, calling Blake a goddess and a powerful woman. Among her ________ is Mindy Scheier, the founder of Runway of Dreams, which showcases fashion for people with ________. Last fall, Scheier asked Blake to be one of the event’s 24 models.

“Getting Melissa in this year’s biggest fashion event just makes people understand how important it is to ________ who consumers are in the fashion industry, or what we ________ represent in the word ‘model’.” says Scheier.

“It was a little ________,” Blake says of modeling. But she’s glad she took the ________. Often, when we think of ________ for people with disabilities, we think of buildings and employment. But it’s also ________ to have access to what’s fun and enioyable.

“Fashion isn’t going to solve all the world’s ________,” says Blake. “When disabled people are included, it sends a message that we ________ a seat at the table in all aspects of life, frivolous or not.”