Getting misplaced in a great e-book is usually an escape into a brand new world. A Maryland teenager found that after her father was identified with most cancers.
Emily Bhatnagar, 18, is now giving hundreds of sick kids the present of literature by way of her e-book drive, "For Love and Buttercup."
It began in 2019 when her father was identified with thyroid most cancers.
"It was the worst. It was like reliving it each single night time, like nightmares and panic assaults," she advised CBS Information. "I assumed, 'It is exhausting sufficient for an grownup to have most cancers,' however when you consider a child having most cancers — and it simply broke my coronary heart."
So the petite teenager with an enormous coronary heart put out phrase on social media that she was gathering books for sick kids.
"I used to be anticipating like two or three responses, and there have been like a whole lot and a whole lot, and so many books by my door, and it was simply actually thrilling," she stated.
She's distributed 9,000 new books to hospitals and faculties in want, together with MedStar Georgetown College Hospital, the place her dad was handled.
Bhatnagar stated it was a type of remedy for her.
"I believe this helped greater than something," she stated.
Her dad has since turned the web page and is doing effectively. As for Bhatnagar, her joyful ending can be to make this e-book drive right into a lifelong mission.