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1. Huntington Library and Gardens (in Pasadena, CA)
2. Archdiocese of Los Angeles (the Catholic Church of Los Angeles)
3. Girl's State
4. Homeboy Industries (Boyle Heights, CA)
5. The 1984 Olympics (held in Los Angeles)
6. My mother (with me at the Huntington Library below!)
7. My older sister (we played school)
8. Learning video games at my public library you got to play for FREE on the brand new Apple 2E computers donated by a new little-known company called Apple Computers (Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? & Oregon Trail)
10. Public library (summer reading program where reading got you free pizza points!)
11. S.E. Hinton
12. Weekly piano lessons with Mrs. Crider
13. Dr. Williams (favorite undergraduate professor)

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1. My brother's Godfather, Lambros (told us stories & sang traditional Greek songs)

2. Playing Scrabble as a kid

3. Being translator for my immigrant parents, brother (before he learned English), and grandmother

4. basketball (coach gave us notebooks to learn plays)

5. Practicing my French when we would visit family in Montreal

6. Greek School (church)

7. Greek Mythology (giant book I read over and over)

8. Dr. Paul Goldstene (college)

9. Human Services 45 (an elective course where we tutored lementary school kids in reading)

10. Used to play 'school' with my neighbor, who was 1 year older than me. I was the student and she was the teacher (learned years later I was doing her homework)

11. Sesame Street & The Electric Company on Saturday mornings

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My grandfather's almanac

Full House (Thing before Fuller House)

Hollywood movie series on Friday nights (in Japan)

Essay writing contests (many Japanese school children participated in these as part of school curricula)

Friends from home

UCSB

My child's Spanish-English bilingual school

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-2 Grandmothers (pictured below at my college graduation) and their full journals and bookshelves
-being the only child meant being included in conversations as a peer, not a child
-community conversations
-Judy Blume
-Dr. Betsy Watson
-Jody Woodbury (HS English teacher) and Carl Woodbury (HS Gov't teacher)
-Thomas, my grandmother's Siamese cat (aka my best student)
-Reading Rainbow
-Sweet Valley High

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Eye exams.
Watching older sister record herself reading books.
First grade reading circles.
Moving to Australia in 6th grade and mispronouncing words when reading aloud in class.

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Positive

1. Mom--both as mom and as middle school English teacher

2. Mormon Church

3. Sesame Street/Electric Ave

4. International Children's Chorus

5. Public Libraries

6. Judy Bloom (YA author)

7. Jack Weyland (YA author)

8. Anya Seton/Chaucer (authors)

9. Mr. Peletier--high school teacher

10. General Hospital (1980s)

11. Uncle Ray--surfing PhD

12. Prof. Alison Warriner

13. Prof. Paige DeBois

14. Amazon/Kindle

Negative

1. Mr. Robertson--5th grade teacher

2. Mrs. Pickens--11th grade English teacher

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1. My parents
2. School friends
3. 8th grade teacher who made us read on our own regularly and gave really good reading recommendations.
4. 11th grade teacher who made her own library at my high school
5. My older sister who is always recommending books to me
6. Public library (summer programs)
7. Elementary school, gave out shirts and candy for reading certain number of books

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1.  My parents have always bought books for me to read and when I was younger they would read with me.
2. Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman, an old Tv show that started M-F. Along with other shows like Plaza Sesamo.
3. Doing crossword puzzles as a kid.
4. Being a translator for my parents and filling out their documents. (Spanish and Dialect are my first two languages)
5. Church
6.Mrs. Alves(middle school teacher)
7. Mr. Castle( H.S teacher)
8. Mrs. Plascencia(H.S teacher)
9. Mrs. Chang(H.S teacher)
10. Mrs. Rodrigez ( elementary and middle school librarian)
11. Playing school with family.
12. Being able to go to the public library.
13. Having my own personal library.

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- my sister; she LOVES to read
- my aunt; gave me worksheets to do when I sat next to her as she did her homework
- my uncle; helped me with homework
- PBS kids
- elementary school book group
- fun learning websites that teachers let us play during free time in elementary school
- middle school's "million word reader" celebration
-reading den one of my teachers had in their classroom

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1. My parents, they always tellings me to read books and practice writing when I was little.
2. My babysitter- when I was little, my babysitter would come and take care of us and read books in both English and Spanish.
3. My soccer team in elementary- we would have one day where we were write, everyday was a different topic.
4. My friends both middle and high school
5. My 8th grade teacher, Mr. Azari
6. My 12th grader teacher, Ms. Hoffman
7. My high school, they were give out prizes to the students that read the most
8. My dad, help me with any homework
9. My mom, look over my assignments and get a second opinion.
10. My aunts, they give me book recommendations
11. My grandma- she has books with crossword puzzles and word search.

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1. Mom
2. Grandparents
3. Dora the Explorer
4. Personal library
5. Elementary School (reading logs and ELD)
6. Middle School (Scholastic Book Fairs)
7. Ms.Armenio (11th Grade English Teacher)
8. Ms.Asher (12th grade English Teacher
9. Victoria Aveyard (Author-Red Queen Series)
10. Rick Riordan (Author-Percy Jackson Series)

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1. preschool teacher
2.Mom & Dad (speak Spanish)
4.Church
5.Scholastic book fairs
6.Mr.Faber (11th grade English teacher)
7.public library
8.Summer boost camp -2011
9.Dora the Explorer
10. Go Diego Go
11.learning websites
12.PBS kids (Clifford,Curious George, Maya and Miguel)
13. Nick jr.
14. Mr.Olsen (French teacher)
15. Ms.Klatt

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Positive
1. PBS kids (word girl, electric company, cyberchase, etc.)
2. Leapfrog
3. My mom (taught me to read/write in Spanish, read to me, took me to the library frequently)
4. Union City Library
5.  My older sister (helped me with homework when I was younger)
6. Translating for my parents
7. Kid Zone (after school program)
8. My dad (would buy educational games for me)
10. Mr. Rosato (5th-grade teacher)
11. Mrs. Lively (8th-grade teacher)
12. Mrs. Fenzl (11th-grade teacher)
13. Early Academic Outreach Program (including Pre-College Academy and Summer Sessions)
14. My friends (recommend books and encouraged me to start journaling)
15. Monique (academic counselor)
16. Wordscapes
17. My mini library
Negative
1. Mrs. Greogry (Kindergarten teacher)
2. Mr. Peters (10th-grade teacher)

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1.) church

2.) pre school teacher

3.)television networks like pbs , nick jr ,and  disney

4.) Stan Lee created marvel comics

5.) 6th grade teacher ( Ms. M)

6.)10 grade teacher ( Ms. Parker)

7.) 12 grade teacher (Ms. Aldridge)

8.) school library

9.)avid teacher ( coach wiz)

10.)friends

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1. my sister
2. mom
3. 4th grade teacher
4. 11th grade English teacher
5. 12th grade English teacher
6. aunt
7. cousin
8. elementary school friends
9. library events
10. barney
11. PBS kids

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1. My parents
2. Curious George (it used to be one of my favorite T.V shows as a kid)
3. My EAOP advisor from high school who told me about the STEP program
4. My friends who are always encouraging me to do my best
5. School book fairs
6. AR reading
7. Ms. Napoliello (my 6th grade teacher)
8. Ms. Stewart (my 4th grade teacher)
9. Mr. Kang (my Law and AP World teacher)
10. Wood leaf (summer camp)
11. Basketball

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1. My dad
2. Both of my parents since they speak a different language.
3. Senora Hernandez
4. Mr. Barrett
5. AP Lang/AP Lit teachers
6. The Maze Runner
7. The Hunger Games
8. Church
9. Exams that I had to study for
10. AR reading
11. Netflix subtitles
12. Study Hall
13. Anime

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1. My parents
2. My older cousins
3. My middle school English teacher
4. Public Library
5. Reading apps
6. Disney movies
7. Learning games
8. My AP Literature teacher
9. My friends
10. My sister
11. Puzzles
12. Educational Talent Search

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1. Cartoons and animations (Disney, Marvel, Studio Ghibli)
2.Berkeley Public Library

3.Translating for my parents (being bilingual)

4.Friends

5.Kids TV shows (Wizards of Waverly Place, Winx, etc.)

6.Typerrace (writing games)

7.Percy Jackson Series

8.Reading Logs

9.CCC (college and career center)
10.Mr. Carton (Bible as literature teacher)
11. Music

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- St. Theresa Catholic Church
- Mom
- Jean Parker Elementary School (reading logs)
- Ms. Wong (Elementary school teacher)
- Personal mentor, Simon
- Public Libraries
- My family
- Vocabulary books
- Critical Thinking books
- SAT Reading & Writing books
- Kumon
- Khan Academy

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Positive
1. My mom
2. My pediatrician
3. My 7th grade teacher
4. The Netflix show "Jane the Virgin"
5. Playing with puzzle pieces.
6. My mom's friend (she helped me read my first ever chapter book)
7. Matilda has helped me get out of my comfort zone when it comes to literacy
8. The LDS Church

Negative
1. My 2nd grade teacher
2. High school (they were very limited with literacy)

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1. My sister
2. My grandfather
3. Moving from Iran to America
4. Friends who are into reading
5. Manhattan Beach Public Library
6. My ACT tutor
7. Video games
8. My 9th grade English teacher
9. Scholastic Book Fairs

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1. My sister
2. My friends
3. Mr. Barragan (college advisor)
4. Mrs. Kalamaras (9th Grade English teacher)
5. J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter)
6. Public libraries
7. Accelerated Reader
8. Doing crossword puzzles with my grandma
9. Educational Talent Search
10. Mr. Swetland (band teacher)

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First and Foremost: Reading to Kids. God bless grassroot organizations.

2. Sammy's Story Shop
3. Dragon Tales
4. Dragon (Qubo)
5. Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
6. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
7. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
8. Lastly, my mom who always yells at me to read a book when she sees me on my phone. <3

Negative: The repercussions of "No Child Left Behind" Act.

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1. My mom!
2. my primary school home teacher
3. my calculus teacher
4. my idol
5. kindle
6. Xinhua book store near my home
7. the middle school reading atmosphere

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1.My family, my parents always tell me the importance of reading and writing.
2.My primary school Chinese teacher, she always encourage me.
3.E-books,The reason why I interest in reading.
4.High school English teacher.
5.The story from text books in primary school
6.Best friend from Middle school.
7.The Documentary Film about history WWII
8.Cousins.
9.Video game, PC game.

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-parents
-grandma
-friends
-cousins
-my 6th grade teacher
-AP Lit teacher
-10th and 11th grade teacher
-an elementary school librarian
-a public library near me
-some Qubo shows
-some Disney shows
-my small shelf of books
-music

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1. My parents
2. My Politics teachers in elementary school
3. My friend Yang
4. The Children's Palace
5. One movie a day
6. many contests
7. My furry Fox
8. My counselor in China
9. Stage
10. The 5 years in Tianjin
11. Spotify

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1. Parents
2. Grandfather
3. Literature teacher in Grade 11
4. Film
5. Music
6.9th grade basketball team
7. Cousins
8. Video games
9. Grandma Ginny (one of my neighbors)

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1. My idol
2. My manga collection
3. Music (Especially Bladee and Yung Lean)
4. Local library
5. Educational television
6. Tutors
7. puzzle games on my phone

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1.My parents who would encourage me to read and write to improve more and more in every way.
2.PBS Kids.
3.SchoolHouse Rock
4.My grandfather would encourage me to study what I didn't know.
5.My avid counselor.
6.My childhood friends who always had competition to who was smarter.
7.Cool Math Games.
8.Group activities.
9.Avid and other help programs.
10.Afterschool programs and tutorials.
11.Book fair.
12.Spelling bee competitions.

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- my dad who is the one who encourages my love for reading
- my friends who gave me life advices and who loved studying together
- my 10th and 11th grade english teacher who taught me different reading strategies
- dora the explorer who helped me understand English when it wasn't my first language
- my 8th grade teacher who made us read books
- my mom who yells at me to do my homework
- starfall website
- translating as well for parents when they didn't understand words in English

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1. My parents are the first literacy sponsor because they teach me how to speak and literacy.
2. My aunt is always happy to read books with me and also teach me literacy.
3. My primary school foreign teacher from Canada laid the foundation for my study of English in the future.
4. BBC videos
5. Films and TV series lines and lyrics
6. Advertising
7. Online study tools
8. Games

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1. My AP English Literature and Composition teacher
2. The public library (I used to go every summer when I was in elementary school to read books, but mostly play learning video games on the computers.)
3. PBS Kids shows (Martha Speaks, Word Girl, and Super Why)
4. My family and especially my mom (who taught me my second language of Spanish)
5. My 5th grade teacher (who after reading the first volume of several book series sparked curiosity in me to go to the school library and finish the rest)
6. Going to catechism (some Thursdays after school) at my catholic church
7. My Spanish teacher (who was my teacher throughout high school)
8. Reading out loud in class (Popcorn reading was the worst if you kept messing up on pronouncing the words, only to have the next person be someone who could read perfectly.)
9. My 3rd grade teacher (taught me how to write cursive)
10. 4th grade Spelling Bee (I couldn't even qualify, because I couldn't pass the entrance exam.)

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1. my father
2. Mrs. Zhu (1st-5th grade teacher)
3. my grandfather
4. my primary school's after school reading activity
5. my middle school mandarin teacher
6. Mr. Chansen ( high school history teacher)
7. SAT test
8. Toefl test
9. my friend Liam
10. Miss Ketchum ( high school literature teacher)
11. Buddhism
12. pro-democracy activists.

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1. Ms. Hatcher
2. Van Nuys Branch Public Library
3. Mr. Stell
4. elementary library teacher
5. WWII
6. Movies
7. Book Club
8. I was in a competition with a classmate to get to read a million words by the end of the year
9. My mom
10. My aunt

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1) My Aunt
2) Top Gear
3) Anime and comics
4) My parents
5) Music
6) Speech and Debate
7) My AP teachers
8) Law libraries
9) Learning card and board games
10) Mock Trial

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1. My aunt and uncle gifted me books when I was younger.
2. Older cousin.
3. Dora the Explorer.
4. Blue's Clues.
5. Cubo.
6.Public Libary.
7. 7th and 8th-grade teachers.

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1. My English teacher who has inspired and motivated me to grow since my sophmore year.
2. JK Rowling inspired me to read all the Harry Potter books and even make me want to publish a fanatsy based book
3. Watching anime in sub helped me read faster so I can read and pay attention to my show
4. My public library inspired me to read more books in different genres like suspense and horror
5. Raina Telgemeir taught me who words and carttons coexist with each other and if done nicely, a beautful story could be told. (the show, don't tell rule!)
6. My parents have bought me books and journals to help me pursue my hobbies of reading and writing.

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1. Mr.Mason (7th grade) & Mr.Auriemmo (12th grade) English Teacher
2. Mr.Milton (debate teacher)
3. Public Library
4. Disney Movies
5. Anime
6. Children's books
7. Music
8. Movies/Series/Plays
9. Social Media Study Influencers
10. Church

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1. Library
2. My parents
3.My English teacher
4. Video games
5.Music
6. Films
7.Contests
8.Tutors

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1. My mom
2. My aunt
3.My middle school writing teacher
4. my high school writing teacher
5. the school library
6. reading applications
7. movies
8. my friends

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my parent
cartoons
novels
twitter
music
movies
animes
text book
high school teacher

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1. My parents who urged me to read everyday for 30 minutes
2. My sophomore English teacher who made his class read silently everyday for 15 minutes
3. My senior English teacher who made me enjoy creative writing
4. Martin Luther King Jr. Library that introduced me to manga
5. My 3rd older brother who kept bothering me about reading light novels
6. Those light novels that sparked the interest in me to start writing stories
7. My phone that inspired me to stay up late into the night to read

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1. My high school teacher
2. My mom
3.Harry Potter film/book
4.My kindergarten teacher Jane
5.English songs from rappers(Juice Wrld)
6.Sat and Tofel books
7. Vocabulary books

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1. My parents - they always read to me every night. My mom would also tell stories, often, about a cat, Stargazer, a dog, Rufus, and a little girl, Daisy, who would go on adventures together.
2. A classmate in first grade who helped me to read through a book and gain my confidence to do so. I wish I remembered her name.
3. *Reading Rainbow*
4. Friends in high school who introduced me to *Harry Potter* (in movie form first, and then I borrowed all the books)
5. Charlotte Bronte's *Jane Eyre* - I identified closely with Jane as a kid. I guess that's why I teach writing now?
6. The public library visits we took all throughout my childhood.
7. The Scholastic book fair.
8. Studying abroad in France in the summer of 2007, where I expanded my understanding of French.
9. Spanish and Latin classes in high school.
10. Sharon Olds - poet
11. Nirvana
12. Hole

Negative:
1. My MA advisor who told me she hoped "they teach me how to write" in my PhD program.
2. My fifth grade teacher who told me that writing both the $ and the cents sign before and after a monetary amount was the "stupidest thing she'd ever seen"

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1. My parents are huge literacy sponsors, they always pushed me to read every night when I was younger and they even read to me at night at times.
2. Disney movies also influenced me and pushed me to read because I wanted to read everything that had to do with Disney princess and it was something that interested me at times.
3. Music
4. social media(been recommended books by people on social media)
5. church: I was in a church group which actually made us read in both English and Spanish and I didn't realize I was  learning about god through a literacy sponsor.
6. my little sister: I would read to her at a very young age and even read so she could fall asleep

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1. My parents who read to me when I was younger and told me some of their life stories.
2. My English teachers who always made me read books for their class.
3. My brother who introduced me to manga
4. Cartoons that influenced me and made me interested in reading about things.
5. My phone because I would read from it and stay up late.
6. Shows that sparked an interest in me to write stories that I couldn't keep out of my mind.
7. Music since the lyrics always had meaning in them.
8.  The public library that I always visited when I was young. I either checked out books or did their activities.
9. Helping my mom with translations
10. Movies since they we so interesting and  would use big words in them.

Negative
1.  My third grade teacher
2. My 6th grade teacher

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1. Volleyball coach -She always pushed me to do better and she helped me have self discipline
2. Ms. Carolina- Her kindness was something I got from her, she was always positive, laughing, and caring.
3. Ms. Cynthia - she is someone I could always rely on and she always was encouraging
4. Disney - Part of my childhood
5. Nickelodeon - Part of my childhood
6. Ms. Fouchard- She always stood up for what she believe, sassy woman can would not back down from any challenge
7. My Best friend- I have known her for 16 years, I can always count of her to make me laugh and for support
8. My school friends- The gave me lots of learning opportunities for me to know what I want and don’t want in a friend
9. My cousin- Showed me not to take everything seriously and she would always be there for me when I needed her.

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1. Mom
2. Stepdad
4. Grandparents
3. Great grandparents (Spanish speakers only)
4. Tios/Tias
5. 4th grade teacher (Ms. Alvarez)
6. 8th grade English & History teacher (Ms. Haddan)
7. 12th grade English teacher (Ms. Frankel)
8. Sesame Street
9. PBS kids
10. Super Why (tv show)
11. Pipi Long Stocking
12. SuperKids
13. Novelas
14. Spanish Music
15. Volleyball
16. Disney/Marvel movies
17. Geronimo Stilton Books
18. Dora the Explorer
19. Barney and Friends

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1. my mom and sister
2. my friends
3. high school counselor
4. club soccer coach (pushed us when we wanted to give up)
5. ACE ASB (senior year was president)
6. music
7. social media

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1. Elementary school
2. Middle school
3. High School
4. Sister
5. Social Media
6. Cars
7. Tv shows
8. Video Games
9. Tutoring
10. The music I listen to
11.  Friends mom

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Positive:
1. My Mother
2. My Father
3. My older cousin Emily
4. Grandparents
5. Word Girl
6. Dora the Explore
7. Soccer coach
8. Ms. Webb (9th grade PE teacher & 12th grade Sports Med teacher)
9. Ms. Cazarez (AVID teacher)
10. Mr. Zelensky (10th & 11th grade Science Teacher)
11. Bad Bunny
12. Video Games
13. The Maze Runner
14. Younger Brother
15. Elmo
16. Big Time Rush
17. Rebelde (Spanish novela)
18. Disney shows
19. Harry Potter
20. Music
21. Friends

Negative:
1. That one kid who tripped me at the park.
2. AR Reading.
3. Sophomore English teacher

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1. parents
2. grandpa
3. public library
4. Scholastic Books Clubs
5. 4th grade teacher
6. anime
7. C-drama
8. K-drama
9. novels
10. Chinese School
11. Neighbors

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1. My mom
2. My older brother
3. Assistant Vice Principal from high school
4. My AVID class
5. Competing with my cousins on who's smarter
6. Grey's Anatomy
7. Social media