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The author of dozens of children’s books, Tarshis started writing “I Survived” because she couldn't get her son to read. Tarshis had her own “significant” challenges reading as a kid.

Now the book bag rotation program has expanded to about 1,2000 children. Children like Jermaine, his mom, Markeya Stewart, takes her three-year-old to B is for Books regularly.

According to Books in Every Bag, a nonprofit based in Hollywood, South Carolina, 57% of kindergarten students are deemed not ready, and less than half of third graders can read at grade level.