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Ten-year-old Noa loved reading so much that her bookshelves at home simply ran out of room. One afternoon, while tidying her overflowing shelf, she had a thought: what if other kids in the neighborhood also had books just sitting around, already read and forgotten? That question turned into her tiny free library project. Working with her dad, Noa built a small wooden box about the size of a large mailbox, with a glass door and a shelf inside. They painted it blue and yellow, wrote "Take a book, leave a book" on the front, and mounted it on a post near the entrance to their street. Noa started it off with ten of her own books - adventure stories, comics, and a few science books she'd loved. What happened next surprised even her. Within a week, the books had completely changed. Neighbors brought over old books from home, kids grabbed one on the way to school and left a different one on the way back, and a grandmother from the next street even started leaving her old cookbooks there. Within six months, Noa had helped set up four more tiny libraries around the neighborhood, each one painted differently by other kids who wanted to help. These days, whenever Noa walks by and sees a kid sitting on the sidewalk reading a book from one of her little libraries, she says it's the best feeling in the world - knowing that a book she once loved is now making someone else happy too, without costing anyone a single shekel.