CHARLOTTE — Courtney Lewis and her son, Zane, have quite the book collection, but they didn’t build it all by themselves.
Through the Parent-Child Plus Program, a local program where families in public housing in Mecklenburg County received donated books, the Lewis library only continues to grow each week.
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Channel 9′s Almiya White spoke with Lewis, who said she is confident her son is well prepared for school.
“They’re prepared to say I know how to read, or I know that this is a book, I know how to interpret this book,” Lewis told White.
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