Emmaly Dryden Changing Lives One Word at a Time Why wouldn't reading have the ability to change our lives? Reading gives us ideas, and opportunities to grow. “Reading can take you places you have never been before.” said Dr. Seuss. Thinking back to the good ole days, when I was five. The teacher read books to me. It gave me something, imagination. When the will to pretend, and have fun. Making something that was never there real in my eyes. The books Out of My Mind and Wonder. Changed my point of view on people with “disabilities”. How everyone saw them as a bad, different. When the characters were a good type of different how we all are. How both characters made their disabilities into strength, what we all need to do.