Lauren Sánchez Bezos has become a 'Literacy Champion': Here's how the author is helping kids

Children's book author, philanthropist, and pilot Lauren Sánchez Bezos will serve as a Literacy Champion for Scholastic's groundbreaking program United States of Readers. The initiative is designed to create book choice and ownership opportunities for PreK–8 students attending under-resourced schools across the country. For decades, educators and researchers have pointed to the critical truth that literacy is the foundation for success in school and beyond. Yet millions of children in Title I schools and rural areas still lack access to books they can call their own. United States of . . .