In 2008 Shannon McNamara founded SHARE, Shannon’s After-school Reading Exchange, a non-profit organization whose original mission was to collect books to help educate girls in Tanzania. McNamara, a senior at Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, N.J., has won top recognition for her successful organization (she was asked to give a speech at the White House in March), which has …

A mother driving with her five-year-old daughter in the backseat takes a wrong turn and ends up in a dark back alley, forever altering the young girl’s life. It sounds like the ominous beginning of dramatic film but quite the opposite is true – this is a real-life story about a little girl whose unwavering compassion for human beings serves …