For her twin brother, Lily wrote the dyslexia book she wished every classroom had

Lily Shadeck does not have dyslexia. Her twin brother Michael does — and watching his determination up close gave the Cullman High School junior an idea. She wrote a children's story, 'The Dynamic Duo and the Mix-up Magic,' about siblings learning about dyslexia together, built on a simple message: learning differently doesn't mean learning less. On October 20 the Cullman City Board of Education recognised her advocacy, and the Cullman City Schools Education Foundation donated 75 copies of the book — one for every elementary classroom in the district, so no child has to wonder why the words move for them. Lily has also founded the Mythbusters Dyslexia Foundation to help families afford dyslexia testing, and her goal now is bigger than one district: 500 books in classrooms across Alabama.

SDG 4 · Quality education — Mechanism: individual leader