Three years ago, Araba Maze was reading a book to her niece on the front stoop (门廊) of her Baltimore home. But as the pages 1 , the number of local children 2
around for "stoop story time" increased. When she had finished reading to them, they 3 her to read another. "Go home and read," she said. "We don't have any 4 ,"they replied.
Little did she know, but those decisive minutes of 5 time launched Maze's career as a(n) 6 and online influencer who champions a cause of getting books into the hands of children with no 7 to libraries.
Now known as Storybook Maze, she started work at the 8 library, which wasn't that near since her neighborhood is one of the worst ‘book 9 'in Baltimore. Using her10 on social platforms, she gathered funds to set up a book vending machine(自动售货机) for kids on the street in
2023. Through her efforts, she's 11 over 7,000 books.
Now, Storybook Maze is 12 her largest project yet—a book trolley train. With the goal of 13 $100,000 on GoFundMe, she hopes to have a colorful children's train that will toot-toot its way through the book deserts of Baltimore, 14 as many books as can fit in the carriage(车厢).
"As the wheels of the Book Trolley turn, so do the pages of countless stories waiting to be 15 ."Maze writes.
