# Kids

Baby's Got Book! Tot Shocks Parents by Reading

It's hard to imagine, but at just 17 months Elizabeth Barrett is already reading. Way back when she was 13 months old, she read her first word, "corn." She just pointed at the word and read it. She also signed the word in sign language."

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Teen With One Arm Takes Team to State Playoffs

A Salt Lake City high school boy with one arm led his baseball team to a state title last year and now has risen, again, above all expectations becoming one of the high-scorers on his basketball team which made it to the state semifinals.

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Teen Athlete Triumphant and Proud of her Amputated Legs

To Jessica Long, not having legs isn't a disability -- even with all of the pain. It's an opportunity. The teen swimmer is a world-champ, despite being born without bones in her lower legs, as a member of the United States Paralympic Elite Swimming Team.

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US Kids Deliver Playground Pump to Thirsty School in Africa

American children became inspired to help African kids turn on the faucet for the first time and find clean water. US kids raised $14,000 to send a new playground water pump that with rotation of the merry-go-round delivers water to the township.

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11-Year-Old's Idea to Become Law

Florida restaurants usually throw out perfectly good food that 11 year-old Jack Davis figures can feed the hungry and the homeless. He is now trying to reverse a Florida law and provide protection for restaurants from being sued if anyone who ate the food became ill or developed food poisoning.

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Amputee, 9, Fufills His Dream to Run and Play

"A brave young boy decided to have his right leg amputated in November to avoid a lifetime in a wheelchair and so that he could run and jump like normal kids. On Friday, glowing with pride, Nick Nelson showed off his new prosthetic leg."

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Maldives President Saved by Boy Scout

An attempt to stab the president of the Maldives was thwarted Tuesday when a 15-year-old boy scout grabbed a knife from the would-be attacker.

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U.S. Teen Brings New School to Cambodia

"Hundreds of Cambodian villagers welcomed the arrival of a new school Wednesday, a gift from an American teenager who raised $52,000 after reading about the hardships of growing up in Cambodia."