I'm a big fan of paying it forward as well as paying attention to the needs of others. A group of High School students in Connecticut are doing just that.

I've been a reader since a very young age. To hold a book in your hand as a child and let the story take you to wonderful places, magical places, inventive places in your mind, is part of what helps to shape us as adults. The love of reading has never left me.

I want to take a moment to applaud the Fairfield Ludlowe High School students. And to encourage you to help out their cause.

According to fairfield-sun.com, the students at Ludlowe just launched a book drive for young patients at Bridgeport Hospital. The Book Box Drive is the brain child of a Ludlowe senior who said she was hospitalized as a young child and reading made the experience less scary.

The Book Box Drive is on now and they are collecting until Nov. 12. If you can take a moment out of your day to help, new or gently used books for kids in need can be dropped off at the Fairfield YMCA, 841 Old Post Road and the Fairfield Recreation Center, 75 Mill Plain Road.

We all know it can some times take a while to finish a great read. The children at the hospital will be able to take the donated book home with them.

You can help make, 'Oh, the places you'll go!' a reality for hospitalized children in Connecticut.

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