Books have magical power. They contain knowledge and knowledge makes our human become wiser and stronger. Between their pages, readers can be transported to anywhere imaginable and become just about anyone ... or anytime.   ____________ , many children all over the world don’t have access to books.

For several years now, Maria Keller, a teenager from Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been trying to change that fact.

When she was 8 years old, Maria already loved reading. She also noticed that some of her classmates didn’t read as much as she did. When she asked her mother why that was, her mother said that they might not be able to ______books. Maria had never thought of this. She couldn’t believe that some children didn’t have bedtime stories read to them, and she became______to change this.

With her mother’s help. Maria created a non-profit organization which is dedicated（致力于）to collecting and distributing books to children_______

During the early stages of Read Indeed, Maria set the goal of collecting and distributing 1 million books by the time she was 18.

It didn’t take long to reach that goal. Up till now, she has collected over 2.4 million books and has shipped them to many states and countries around the world.

She said, “I cannot live without books. As I continue my mission（使命）. I have learned that the number of kids who have no books is in the hundreds of millions. So I just can’t______. even after reaching my original goal of 1 million books.”

She recently set a new goal:to distribute donations to kids in need in every state in the US, and every country in the world. She keeps records of her_______   on a large map at the warehouse（仓库）where her books are stored and sorted.