The Desert Mermaid

yeah, that's pretty much it. My mum loves to read and she was always reading to us. my sister however, is not a great reader, but slowly I've been convincing her, giving her interesting and short books, sometimes showing her the movies first,etc. so Mum read to my sister to help her do homework (she's a year older than me) and I'd be sitting there, looking at the books, wondering how to get them to tell me the stories I knew they had hidden inside. I'd pick them up and try to make sense of them. they looked like gibberish of course. the next year I learned how to read and I never stopped. my parents and sometimes siblings had to cut off the power to get me to go to sleep. at first it worked. then I just got a flashlight.