Elva Trevino Hart's Barefoot Heart

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Reading is a skill that lasts a lifetime. The diversity of reading can range from reading music, books, news, and so forth. It opens doors of opportunity. Reading is an important skill to develop in life because it opens doors to success and develops the mind to discover new things.

Reading has been the steeping stone for mankind and its success. For example Elva Trevino Hart the award winning author of the novel Barefoot Heart shares her story of how reading changed her and opened doors of opportunity that she didn’t even know about. She was born in Mexico into a poor family, she had worked as a migrant worker all throughout her childhood and had no formal education to develop her reading skills. She always had the dream of attending college,