Within an hour of my first day of public school, I wanted to leave. I knew no one, I felt like I didn’t belong, I sat at a lunch table by myself for the first week, and to top off the whole thing there...

As a child, she never wanted to leave the library, now she’s starting her very own. In June, English teacher Jami Allen received an email telling her that she had received a $2000 grant for books. “I...